Scale Up Your Practice by Obesity Canada
Scale Up Your Practice by Obesity Canada
Podcast Description
Tune into Scale Up Your Practice, Obesity Canada’s podcast for healthcare professionals.
Hosted by Dr. Roshan Abraham and Michelle McMillan, each episode dives into practical, evidence-informed conversations about obesity care—covering topics like weight stigma, patient-centered approaches, and the connection between obesity and other health conditions.
You’ll hear expert perspectives, real-world experiences, and insights to help you provide better, more compassionate care.
Listen now and scale up your practice.
🎧 Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.
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Content Themes
The podcast centers on various themes including obesity stigma, patient-centered care, and the relationship between obesity and other health conditions, with episodes discussing topics like weight stigma in healthcare, the Canadian Adult Obesity Clinical Practice Guidelines, and behavioral change in clinical practice.
Tune into Scale Up Your Practice, Obesity Canada’s podcast for healthcare professionals.
Hosted by Dr. Roshan Abraham and Michelle McMillan, each episode dives into practical, evidence-informed conversations about obesity care—covering topics like weight stigma, patient-centered approaches, and the connection between obesity and other health conditions.
You’ll hear expert perspectives, real-world experiences, and insights to help you provide better, more compassionate care.
Listen now and scale up your practice.
🎧 Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.
🎙️ This episode is sponsored. Obesity Canada received an unrestricted educational grant from Eli Lilly Canada to produce this episode. 🎙️
In this episode of Scale Up Your Practice, we’re joined by Dr. Angela Alberga, Associate Professor at Concordia University in Montreal, and a leading voice in weight bias research. As part of our Celebrating Canadian Excellence series, Dr. Alberga shares her path into obesity research, what drives her work, and how weight bias—especially toward children—continues to impact people living with obesity.
In this episode:
What sparked Dr. Alberga’s commitment to studying weight bias and health equity
A candid discussion on what she's most proud of in her career
One thing she wishes every clinician knew about obesity care
Bias Break: Pediatric Edition – real talk about how weight stigma affects children and what professionals can do about it
Additional resources:
Free course: The impact of weight bias & stigma: https://utm.guru/uirTz
Canadian Pediatric Obesity Clinical Practice Guidelines: https://utm.guru/uirTD
Harvard Implicit Bias Test: https://utm.guru/uirTE
Want to hear more from Dr. Alberga? She’ll be joining us again on our next episode to dive into the topic of weight bias and stigma in more detail. Make sure you’re subscribed on your favourite podcast platform to be notified when new episodes are live!
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