Wednesday 11 February 2026 at 7pm GMT
Lifestyle Medicine Treatment for Obesity in the Era of Highly Effective Obesity Treatment
with Dr Deepa Sannidhi, Associate Clinical Professor, UC San Diego
Hosted by Rohini Bajekal, Nutritionist & Webinar Lead at Plant-Based Health Professionals UK
(CME accredited for the LM MOC, awaiting CPD accreditation by the CPD Certification Service for 1 CPD hour)
What will I learn from this webinar?
Participants will be able to better understand how to operationalise lifestyle medicine treatment for patients with obesity, including those wanting to use it as first line therapy as well as those who are on concurrent pharmacotherapy and have had bariatric surgery. Participants will be able to understand the overall role of lifestyle therapy in the context of obesity management.
- Explain how lifestyle medicine and obesity medicine work together to promote optimal health
- Recognise strategies to implement and evaluate evidence-based lifestyle medicine programs for people with obesity
- Modify and construct lifestyle medicine programs to be tailored for those with obesity
About our speaker
Deepa Sannidhi, MD, MPH, DipABLM, DipABOM, FACLM is board-certified in family medicine, obesity medicine, and lifestyle medicine. She is an associate clinical professor in the department of family medicine at UC San Diego and serves as assistant program director for the UCSD-SDSU general preventive medicine residency. She serves as a concentration lead for the UCSD Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health. She teaches students and trainees at all levels of training.
Clinically, she partners with the UCSD Center for Integrative Medicine and Center for Advanced Weight management to offer the UCSD Supervised Lifestyle and Integrative Medicine (SLIM) program, which is an innovative medical weight loss program integrating lifestyle and integrative medicine approaches with medical weight loss using anti-obesity medications in a shared medical appointment setting. She is a motivational interviewing trainer, and provides health communication training to residents in preventive medicine, and is a member of MINT.
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This webinar lasts one hour including a Live Q&A. Recordings are for PBHP members only.