Handouts - 2025 Ochsner Obesity and Weight Management Symposium - Battle of the Bayou Bulge

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM

Registration/Breakfast

8:00 AM - 8:15 AM

Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Gabriel Uwaifo, MD

8:15 AM - 8:45 AM

Nutritional Management of the Pre and Post Bariatric Obese Patient
Marian Vigo, MSPH, RDN, LDN, CSOWM

8:45 AM - 9:15 AM

What is New in Dietary Management of Obesity?
Brittany Roussel, RD, CDCES

9:15 AM - 9:45 AM

Physical Activity and Exercise as Management Strategies for Obesity
Timothy Allerton, PhD

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Break/Visit Exhibits

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Update on Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery for Management of Complicated Obese Patients
William Richardson, MD

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Update on Minimally Invasive Procedures and Devices for the Management of Obesity
James Wooldridge, MD

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Medical Screening and Follow-up of the Bariatric Surgery Patient
Amanda Fontenot, MD

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Update on the Pharmacotherapy of Obesity
Gabriel Uwaifo, MD

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Lunch

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Obesity and Fatty Liver Disease: Cause, Course and Management
George Therapondos, MD

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Obesity and Cancer: Overview and Place of Weight Management
Aurash Khoobehi, MD

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Revision, Reversal, Conversion and Staged Bariatric Surgical Procedures: When and Why?
Jessica Gorham, MD

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Obesity and Cardiovascular Risk: Relationship and Impact of Weight Loss and Implications of the “Obesity Paradox”
Carl (Chip) Lavie, MD

3:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Questions and Answers
Panelists

3:15 PM - 3:30 PM

Closing Remarks
Gabriel Uwaifo, MD