PLENARY SESSION #5

Language, Office Space, and Unconscious Bias: How to Mitigate Weight Stigma in Practice [Interactive session with polls]

Dr. Sarah Chapelsky, MD, FRCPC, Diplomate ABOM
C-endo Edmonton

 

Dr. Chapelsky completed medical school at the University of Calgary and general internal medicine training at the University of British Columbia. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine and Clinical Lecturer in the Department of Medicine at the University of Alberta. She practiced at the Edmonton Adult Bariatric Surgical Clinic (formerly Weight Wise) from 2015 – 2022. Currently, she has a community-based obesity medicine practice at C-endo in Edmonton and she is the Director of the Women’s Preoperative Weight Loss Clinic at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, which serves patients with obesity and gynecologic cancers.  

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