Balancing the Scales: Case Studies for Developing Personalized Treatment Plans and Dispelling Misinformation in Obesity Management
ACPE Number:0204-0000-25-405-H01-P Content Release Date: May 28, 2025 Expiration Date: May 28, 2026 Activity Type: Application-based CE Credits: 1.0 contact hours (0.1 CEUs) Activity Fee: Free
Activity Overview
Pharmacists play a unique role in obesity management through medication selection and titration, monitoring, adverse event management, identifying drug interactions, and assisting with access to medications. Additionally, pharmacists are crucial for answering patient questions and providing patient education to achieve long-term goals and improved outcomes. However, given the stigma associated with obesity, many patients are still hesitant to seek care, leading to a variety of comorbidities, reduced quality of life, and even severe or fatal outcomes. Additionally, myths and misinformation surrounding obesity are commonly publicized, present in popular culture, social media, and even found in medical literature. This can lead to unsupported perceptions influencing clinical recommendations, disease management, and potentially ineffective or unsafe behaviors. This educational activity will use patient cases to highlight best practices in individualized obesity care and will discuss myths, misconceptions, and misinformation and effective methods to communicate accurate information to patients with obesity.
*Please note, this activity was presented live on April 28, 2025. You can only claim credit once for this activity; live or home study.
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education with Commendation.
The target audience for this education is pharmacists who practice in hospitals, health systems, and ambulatory clinics who care for or are interested in the care of patients with obesity.
Jennifer N. Clements, PharmD, BCACP, BC-ADM, BCPS, CDCES, FADCES, FCCP, Activity Chair Clinical Professor and Director of Pharmacy Education University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy Greenville, South Carolina
Jennifer N. Clements, PharmD is a Clinical Professor and Director of Pharmacy Education with the University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy at the School of Medicine – Greenville Campus. Dr. Clements earned her Pharm.D. from Campbell University in 2006 and completed a primary care pharmacy practice residency in 2007 at the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center in Charleston, South Carolina. She is a board-certified pharmacotherapy specialist, board-certified ambulatory care pharmacist, certified diabetes care and education specialist, and board certified in advanced diabetes management. Dr. Clements has authored numerous publications and presentations related to diabetes and obesity pharmacotherapy.
Diana Isaacs, PharmD, BCPS, BC-ADM, BCACP, CDCES, FADCES, FCCP is an Endocrinology Clinical Pharmacy Specialist. She serves as the Co-Director of Endocrine Disorders in Pregnancy and the Director of Education and Training in Diabetes Technology at the Cleveland Clinic Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute. Dr. Isaacs earned her bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Doctor of Pharmacy Degree from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) and completed a pharmacy practice residency at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs. Dr. Isaacs holds board certifications in pharmacotherapy, ambulatory care, and advanced diabetes management and is a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist.
Dr. Isaacs served on the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Professional Practice Committee from 2020-2023, the committee that updates the ADA Standards of Care. She also served on the Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists (ADCES) Board of Directors from 2021-2024. She is currently on the leadership of the Diabetes Practice Group for the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology. She co-hosts a popular podcast titled “Diabetes Dialogue: Technology, Therapeutics and Real-World Perspectives.” She advocates access and choice to the latest technologies and therapeutics for all people with diabetes and obesity and speaks on related topics nationally and internationally. She was the ADCES Diabetes Care and Education Specialist of the Year in 2020 and inducted into the SIUE Alumni Hall of Fame in 2022 for her far reaching contributions in diabetes care.
Jeffery S. Vender, MD, MCCM, MBA is the Emeritus, Harris Family Foundation Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at NorthShore University Health System in Evanston, Illinois and a Clinical Professor at the University of Chicago Pritzker School Of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. He is a past member of the NorthShore University Health System Faculty Practice Associates Board of Directors, Past Chair of the Medical Executive Committee for the Professional Staff at NorthShore and previously served on Northshore’s Board of Directors. Dr. Vender served as Chair of Anesthesia from 1990-2015 and received an appointment of adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University. He served as the Director of the Critical Care Services at Evanston Hospital from 1987-2000 and the Interim Chairman at Northwestern University Department of Anesthesiology from July 1999 until October 2000. Dr. Vender has participated and Chaired numerous state and national committees of various medical organizations, edited several medical texts, has published over 135 articles and book chapters and has been an invited lecturer at over 250 national and international meetings on topics of anesthesiology, critical care, organizational change, and leadership. In addition, Dr. Vender serves as an editor and/or reviewer for many medical journals.
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An ineligible company is any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. The presence or absence of relevant financial relationships will be disclosed to the activity audience.
The following persons in control of this activity’s content have relevant financial relationships:
Jennifer N. Clements: Speaker’s bureau – Lilly; Novo Nordisk
Diana Isaacs: Speaker’s bureau - Dexcom; Abbott; Novo Nordisk; Lilly; Sanofi
All other persons in control of content do not have any relevant financial relationships with an ineligible company.As defined by the Standards of Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education definition of ineligible company. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated prior to the CE activity.
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Supported by an educational grant from Novo Nordisk
