1000% recommend this book Legacy by uché blackstock, md for everyone and anyone who cares — for patients or about people. Her stories about her mother made me sob. Even within a broken system, it’ll make you strive to do more and better.

Coinciding w/ National Nutrition Month, delighted to share the results of a healthy meal kit delivery program and feasibility of a phase I trial in #PediatricObesity : tinyurl.com/43ah6e9x

So excited that we have Harvard Medical School Lifestyle Medicine Journal Club tonight at 7pm. Dr. Jacob Mirsky and Dr. Allison Wu will join us to discuss treating hunger and disease through the MGH Revere Food Pantry: Plant-Based Food is Medicine. #lifestylemedicine #health …

Way to go #MGHRevereFoodPantry ! Great feature on the team and Jacob Mirsky, MD, MA, DipABLM prescribing food as medicine for patients in need!

Grounded, data-driven, compelling speakers and role models Fatima Cody Stanford MD MPH MPA MBA FAAP FACP FAHA and Stephanie Chung, M.B.B.S on culturally competent obesity care. Much work to do and to do better. A start: acknowledge the biases and disparities. #OW2023 ObesityWeek®

Right now the minds of Israelis & Palestinians are filled with their own pain: no space left to even acknowledge the pain of the other side. But outsiders should make an effort to empathize with all suffering humans & help maintain a space for peace. bit.ly/YNH-TIME-Oct23 TIME

Hot take: a dog adoption session (“Bark Park”) #OW2023 ObesityWeek® is integral to all academic conferences. Support local rescues while re-energizing conference goers: dognkittycity.org

The past week has been horrific. I ache for all those mourning and I mourn with you. As a pediatrician, my heart and advocacy will always be with the children who have been and are continuing to suffer untold loss, deprivation, terror and harm from unspeakable acts of violence.

Oh boy, what a disconnect we have at #OW2023 ! A tantalizing future for #ObesityCare crashes into a bloody mess in the present of high drug prices, constrained supply, and poor #AccessToCare .
conscienhealth.org/2023/10/ow2023…

Kicked off #obesityweek23 learning about the impacts of food labeling from powerhouse Anna Grummon (former co-postdoc Department of Population Medicine and now an Assistant Prof Stanford Medicine)! Wish my cube were still feet away to ask her all the qs.

At #OW2023 , we are seeing ever more clearly that this is a pivotal year for #ObesityCare . But we have work to do before the pivot is successful – most notably to reject bias, stigma, and #FalsePresumptions about #obesity .
conscienhealth.org/2023/10/the-vi…

Packed day of high impact talks across DEI, IBD, celiac, aspiration, and esophageal atresia from colleagues Boston Children's #NASPGHAN23 learning from the best Lauren Collen Denis Chang Suzanna Hirsch, MD Rachel Rosen Drs. Ballal & Crume!

Two uber talented clinician researchers and also top notch humans Bridget Hron and Dr. Lauren Fiechtner presenting back-to-back at Nutrition Potluck #NASPGHAN23

Real talk at breakfast thanks to Rina Sanghavi,MD,MBA w the impressive Scrubs & Heels cofounders Anita Afzali MD, MPH, MHCM, FACG, AGAF Aline Charabaty, MD, FACG, AGAF about work life integration and building your network. #NASPGHAN23

Wow! 2 great shoutouts highlighting the research of Boston Children's GI faculty Allison Wu, MD, MPH and Lauren Collen during the NASPGHAN Year in Review of high impact research! Congrats!

Thanks to symposium organizers Lois Lee, MD, MPH and team for the opportunity to share the work and to Alisa Khan for the terrific follow up questions. Nothing beats an engaged audience! More results forthcoming in posters NASPGHAN and The Obesity Society #obesityweek next month!

Damn. The CDC CDC/BRFSS just released its annual state-level obesity prevalences.

US obesity worsened again in 2022, with dramatic increases in many states in just 1 year.

The US is completely off the rails.

All the data, maps, subgroups here:
cdc.gov/obesity/data/p…

Enormous congrats 🥳 to Evida Dennis-Heyward, MD PhD and Dr. Casey Johnson, two rising physician-scientist stars at Boston Children's #PedsGI Christine Lee Daniel Kamin