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LECTURES

Dental industry lectures to stir your curiosity.  Mark your calendars!

We are proud to be an AGD approved program provider.  Our quarterly lectures will offer two (2) CE credits.

Lucy McBride, , MD, GWAWD speaker

LECTURE

April 9, 2025
“Ozempic: How a Weight Loss Drug is Changing Bodies, Hearts, Minds.”
Lecture by Lucy McBride, MD

Course Objectives:

  • The individual and societal impact of obesity and metabolic disorders
  • The way in which the medical establishment and U.S. healthcare system have conceptualized obesity
  • The complex roots of obesity
  • The patient experience of obesity in America
  • The rise of the “Health at Every Size” movement (and the backlash against it)
  • Ozempic’s mechanism of action, pros and cons, and role in the treatment of obesity, diabetes and metabolic disorders
  • The societal impact of this medicine
  • How to best advocate for patients in this complex landscape of mis- and dis-information about obesity and health

Lucy McBride, MD – Speaker Bio: 

Lucy McBride, MD, is a Harvard- and Johns Hopkins-trained primary care doctor in Washington, DC, who has been seeing patients for over 20 years. During the pandemic, she became a nationally recognized voice on the importance of addressing mental and physical health in tandem. She is the author of the popular medical newsletter, Are You Okay?, now reaching over 31 thousand people a week and is the author of a forthcoming book about whole-person health with Simon & Schuster. She hosts a top-rated podcast called Beyond the Prescription where she interviews guests like she does her patients, pulling the curtain back on what it means to be healthy. She has published numerous opinion pieces in The Atlantic and the Washington Post (among others), and she has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, NPR and PBS, advocating for a data-driven, holistic approach to health care. Health, she argues, is a process, not an outcome. Health is about more than our cholesterol and weight: it’s about awareness of our medical facts, acceptance of the things we cannot control, and agency over what we can change.

You can find her work and writing at www.lucymcbride.com

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