Don’t Ignore the Snore: Prioritizing OSA Screening and Management in Comprehensive Obesity Care
Webinar/Online
Friday, October 3, 2025 at 11:45am CT - 12:45pm CT
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Topic
Join our live, virtual symposium and elevate your clinical impact. This interactive event is designed to enhance your approach to managing obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) within the broader context of obesity care. Featuring expert-led discussions, practical insights, and access to a downloadable Bootcamp Tool, this symposium delivers evidence-based strategies to improve long-term cardiometabolic outcomes, giving you the knowledge and confidence to put comprehensive care into action.
Credits Offered
This event offers
1.0 contact hour
to attendees.
Accreditation Info:
ANCC.
Additional Information
Goal Statement
The goal of this program is to improve learners’ knowledge of and competence in optimizing OSA management as part of comprehensive care for patients with obesity.
Target Audience
This program is intended for physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician associates who manage patients with obesity, including those in obesity medicine, endocrinology, and primary care specialties.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this event, participants should be able to:
- Analyze the relationship and impact of comorbid obesity and OSA
- Interpret recommended screening and diagnostic tests to inform OSA management
- Develop comprehensive treatment plans for patients with obesity and OSA to improve long-term cardiometabolic outcomes
Agenda
- Introduction, Preactivity Polling
- Stopping the Cycle: Interplay of Obesity and OSA
- OSA Screening and Diagnosis in the Obesity Care Setting—It Can Be Done!
- Implications of New OSA Treatment Options
- Postactivity Polling, Reflection, and Commitment to Practice Change
- Question and Answer Session
Speakers
Adult and Pediatric Sleep Physician
Skagit Regional Health
Mount Vernon, Washington
Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Texas Tech University HSC
El Paso, Texas
Sleep and Obesity Medicine Physician
Florida Sleep Specialists
Discover Health
Bradenton, Florida