🎙️ This episode is sponsored. Obesity Canada received an unrestricted educational grant from Eli Lilly Canada to produce this episode. 🎙️

In this episode of Scale Up Your Practice, we’re joined by Dr. Angela Alberga, Associate Professor at Concordia University in Montreal, and a leading voice in weight bias research. As part of our Celebrating Canadian Excellence series, Dr. Alberga shares her path into obesity research, what drives her work, and how weight bias—especially toward children—continues to impact people living with obesity.

In this episode:

• What sparked Dr. Alberga’s commitment to studying weight bias and health equity

• A candid discussion on what she's most proud of in her career

• One thing she wishes every clinician knew about obesity care

• Bias Break: Pediatric Edition – real talk about how weight stigma affects children and what professionals can do about it

  
  

Additional resources: 

• Free course: The impact of weight bias & stigma: https://utm.guru/uirTz

• Canadian Pediatric Obesity Clinical Practice Guidelines: https://utm.guru/uirTD

• Harvard Implicit Bias Test: https://utm.guru/uirTE 

  
  

Want to hear more from Dr. Alberga? She’ll be joining us again on our next episode to dive into the topic of weight bias and stigma in more detail. Make sure you’re subscribed on your favourite podcast platform to be notified when new episodes are live!

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