Mary Greeley Medical Center Grand Rounds is a multi-disciplinary clinical activity which serves to maintain, develop, or increase the knowledge, skills, and professional performance and relationships that a physician uses to provide services for patients, the public or the profession.  

Target Audience

Physicians, mid-level providers, nurses and healthcare administrators.

Professional Practice Gap

This activity will help to provide primary care providers with support for identification of abnormal weight gain and obesity in pediatric patients, guidelines for appropriate screening for sequelae of obesity, and tools to begin to address both the obesity and the sequelae.

Learning Objectives

1. Recognize that abnormal weight gain & obesity in the pediatric population causes current sequelae, tracks into adulthood, and contributes to chronic morbidity.
2. Identify abnormal weight gain & obesity in pediatric patients.
3. Screen for sequelae of obesity in pediatric patients.

Speaker(s)

Vanessa Curtis, MD Pediatric Endocrinology University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinic	Thomas Scholz, MD Pediatric Cardiology University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinic
Biography	Biography

Disclosures

Speaker(s)

• Dr. Curtis and Dr. Scholz both indicate they have no financial relationships to disclose relevant to the content of this CME activity.

CME Committee

• Dr. Brenda Burrough discloses she is a principal investigator in an Amgen research trial.
• No member of the Mary Greeley Medical Center CME Committee who planned this activity, including Dr. Burrough, has any financial relationship to disclose relating to the content. 

The content and selection of speaker(s) is the responsibility of the Mary Greeley Medical Center for Continuing Medical Education Committee.

Continuing Education Credit

• DO: Des Moines University is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) and approves this live activity for 1.0 AOA Category 2-A CME credit(s).