{"id":468,"date":"2024-05-02T22:21:56","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T05:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcobesity.net\/?p=468"},"modified":"2025-02-17T02:05:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T10:05:27","slug":"2024-bc-obesity-society-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"2024 BC Obesity Society Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our 12th conference was be held in Vancouver at the UBC Robson Square conference facility.  It was our great success with 121 attendees.  We has speakers across North America like Dr. Dayna Lee-Baggley from Nova Scotia and Dr. Mitchell Roslin from New York.  We also had excellent talks from experts across BC: Dr. Siri Reinbold, Dr. Madelaine Gierc, Dr. Sean Irwin, Dr. Jordanna Kapeluto, Dr. Roberto Trasolini, and Dr. David Harris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7973-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"653\" src=\"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7973-1024x653.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-482\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7973-1024x653.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7973-300x191.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7973-768x490.jpg 768w, http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7973-1536x980.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7973-2048x1306.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Dr. Madelaine Gierc on Current Evidence-Based Approaches to Pediatric Obesity Management<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7983-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7983-808x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-479\" width=\"589\" height=\"744\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Dr. Mitchell Roslin on Fuels Burned at the Impact of Bariatric Surgery and The Future of Bariatric Surgery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7979-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7979-713x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-478\" width=\"590\" height=\"847\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7979-713x1024.jpg 713w, http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7979-209x300.jpg 209w, http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7979-768x1102.jpg 768w, http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7979-1070x1536.jpg 1070w, http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7979-1427x2048.jpg 1427w, http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7979-scaled.jpg 1784w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Dr. David Harris on Medication Therapy for Obesity: The Present, Tomorrow and the Future<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7985-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" src=\"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7985-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7985-scaled.jpg 1920w, http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7985-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Dr. Sean Irwin on Revisiting Food Insecurity in Our Widening World<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7986-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"561\" src=\"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7986-1024x561.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-481\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7986-1024x561.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7986-300x164.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7986-768x421.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Samaad Malik, Dr. Roberto Trasolini, Dr. Mitchell Roslin, and Dr. Sean Irwin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our 12th conference was be held in Vancouver at the UBC Robson Square conference facility. It was our great success with 121 attendees. We has speakers across North America like Dr. Dayna Lee-Baggley from Nova Scotia and Dr. Mitchell Roslin <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/?p=468\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  2024 BC Obesity Society Conference<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}