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ForwardWebinar: Beyond the Scale: Implementing Weight-Inclusive Care in Clinical Practice
Weight stigma in health care is a pervasive issue where patients with higher body mass index (BMI) encounter disrespect, bias, and diagnostic overshadowing. This can cause patients to stress about getting care and even lead to care avoidance, contributing to missed or delayed diagnoses. Interventions centered on weight loss can deepen stigma, erode patient trust, and reduce access to evidence-based health interventions.
Join Carrie Dennett, MPH, RDN, and Lisa Erlanger, MD, on Thursday, September 24, 2026, from 2-3:30 p.m. ET, for a webinar exploring the paradigm shift toward weight-inclusive health care. This session will cover a critical examination of the limitations of traditional weight-centric models, highlighting how weight stigma and a focus on weight loss as an intervention negatively impacts patient outcomes. Participants will examine the clinical and psychosocial impacts of weight stigma and review evidence-based approaches that prioritize patient autonomy, sustainable health behaviors, and equitable care.
Carrie and Lisa will explain how the care team can collaborate more effectively to integrate weight-inclusive principles and philosophies into daily clinical practice, foster trusting provider-patient relationships, and promote genuine health equity. Equip yourself with the practical tools to deliver compassionate, effective, and truly patient-centered care.
Learning Objectives
After completing this continuing education activity, health care professionals will better be able to:
- Explain the differences and similarities between weight-inclusive care and weight-centric care.
- Implement evidence-based strategies to achieve improved patient health outcomes without prescribing weight loss.
- Counsel higher-weight patients on how to care for their health in their current bodies, without necessarily pursuing weight loss.
- Apply best practices to ensure clear and aligned communication of weight-inclusive goals among dietitians, social workers, and other members of the team to support coordinated, patient-centered care.
Additional Information
Carrie Dennett, MPH, RDN, is a weight-inclusive dietitian who specializes in eating disorders. She provides nutrition therapy for adolescents and adults struggling with disordered eating and body image concerns through her private practice, Nutrition By Carrie, as well as through Charlie Health, a virtual intensive outpatient program.
Carrie holds a Master of Public Health in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Washington. She writes a weekly nutrition column for The Seattle Times and contributes regularly to Today’s Dietitian Magazine and other print and online publications. Carrie is the author of “Healthy For Your Life: A Non-Diet Approach to Optimal Well-being,” creator of the Audible Original course “Mindful Eating.”
Lisa Erlanger, MD, is a board-certified family physician and co-founder and President of the Association for Weight and Size Inclusive Medicine (AWSIM), a professional organization advancing weight-inclusive care across medical disciplines. Her clinical practice has focused on primary care for larger-bodied patients and those with eating disorders and mental health concerns. Dr. Erlanger completed her training with honors at Washington University School of Medicine and her residency and fellowship through the University of Washington in Seattle, where she serves as a Clinical Professor of Family Medicine.
As one of the leading voices in the weight-inclusive care movement, Dr. Erlanger speaks nationally on anti-fat bias, weight-inclusive medicine, and eating disorders. She is a Certified Body Trust® Provider through The Center for Body Trust and has been featured in publications including Time Magazine and Vogue. Dr. Erlanger believes all people deserve evidence-based, trauma-informed, compassionate, and weight-inclusive health care.
Disclosures:
The faculty and planners for this educational activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
An “ineligible company” includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care products used by or on patients.
In support of improving patient care, Great Valley Publishing Company is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
This activity will also award credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU).
Dietitians:
This activity will also award 1.5 CDR CPEU credits for dietetics. Completion of this RD/DTR profession specific or IPCE activity awards CPEUs (1 IPCE credit = 1 CPEU). If the activity is dietetics-related but not targeted to RDs or DTRs, CPEUs may be claimed which are commensurate with participation in contact hours (1 hour/60 minutes = 1 CPEU). RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner's discretion.
Physicians:
Great Valley Publishing designates this live material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit (s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Social Workers:
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Great Valley Publishing Company is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course will receive 1.5 general continuing education credits.
Interprofessional:
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.5 IPCE credits for learning and change.
Available Credit
- 1.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.
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