Pediatric Grand Rounds (CME): Systems-Level Interventions for Childhood Obesity Prevention

Systems-Level Interventions for Childhood Obesity Prevention
 

PRESENTED BY
Jennifer Woo Baidal, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Pediatric Gastroenterology
Stanford School of Medicine

SESSION DESCRIPTION
The first 2,000 days – gestation through age 5 years – is a critical period for development of childhood obesity and subsequent chronic disease. Racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in obesity are apparent in the first years of life. This session will focus on emerging research on the role systems-level interventions to reduce social and behavioral risk factors in for childhood obesity.

EDUCATION GOALS

• Identify factors during gestation and infancy that influence child growth.
• Understand current literature the role of social risk factors in childhood obesity.
• Describe emerging social care models and how they may show promise to reduce racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in childhood obesity.

LOCATION (in-person)
Center for Academic Medicine
Grand Rounds Room
453 Quarry Road,
Palo Alto, CA 94304

ZOOM INFORMATION

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