The ANZOS is built on three core pillars of obesity related research – Basic; Clinical; and Public Health sciences. Conventional thinking in evidence-based medicine has often assumed a linear relationship between the three. For example, in traditional models of drug development. In practice however, these pillars are engaged in sometimes mutually exclusive approaches, or with limited inter-disciplinary success when translation and implementation is attempted. In this symposium, presenters will be asked to consider how their specific pillar may actively engage with each other in developing specific outputs and activities and the barriers and facilitators to such engagement. Through this discussion we potentially can identify strategies in which cross collaboration may enhance the work within specific domains for improving patient and community outcomes.
Public Health: When considering policy development or community-based programs how much does Public Health look to clinical trials or basic science mechanistic data to help develop messaging?
Combined 30 minutes of question time at the end of session
Predicting response following bariatric surgery: the medical perspective – Samantha Hocking: 15 minutes
Predicting response following bariatric surgery: the dietitian perspective - Janet Franklin: 15 minutes
Predicting response following bariatric surgery: the surgeon’s perspective - Jacob Chisholm: 20 minutes
Predicting response following bariatric surgery: the patient perspective – Andrew Wilson 10 minutes
Panel discussion with all: 30 Minutes
Summary
It is important for members of the multidisciplinary team to work together for the best outcome for the patient. For the same reasons, we have been organising a joint session at the ANZOS conference with the National Association for Clinical Obesity Services (NACOS) as well as the Australian and New Zealand Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society (ANZMOSS), to ensure the attendees get to hear collective views and different perspectives. This year, we look forward to hearing different perspectives on predicting response following bariatric surgery from A/Prof Samantha Hocking, President of NACOS and Jacob Chisholm, President of ANZMOSS. We are also delighted to have Janet Franklin bringing the dietitian’s perspective and Andrew Wilson, Board Member of Weight Issues Network (WIN) highlighting weight stigma and talking about lived experience. This session will explore whether you could predict how well a person will do after surgical weight loss from a medical, dietetic and surgical perspective. Presentations will include pre-operative and post-surgical factors, biomarkers and behavioural factors, and whether it is possible to identify responders and non-responders to surgical weight loss before surgery in terms of weight loss and complication remission? We look forward to having a panel discussion for the last half hour of this session to allow time for a healthy discussion and exchange of views.