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Calendar of Events

2025

Sunday, September 21

Panel Discussion
In Partnership with The National Alliance for Eating Disorders

Moderated by Chevese Turner and Featuring Alliance Group Facilitators

6:00 - 8:00 pm EST

Tuesday, September 23

Opening & Welcome: Wendy Oliver Pyatt, MD & Chevese Turner

9:30 - 10:00 am EST

CE: 001 - GLP-1s and the Necropolitics of Hunger: Reclaiming "Food Noise" as a Fat Woman of Color

Keynote: Virgie Tovar, MA with Wendy Oliver Pyatt, MD

10:00 - 11:30 am EST

Esther Tambe, MS, RDN, CDN, CDCES

12:00 - 1:00 pm EST

GLP1s & Diabetes and How Weight Stigma Impacts

Your Bias Is in My Provider’s Office – The Hidden Ways Anti Fatness Impacts Disability and Neurodivergence

Anna Nokes, LCSW

1:30 - 3:00 pm EST

Panel Discussion: William Hornby, Ilya Parker, PTA, CMES and Ronnie Lee, PsyD

3:30 - 5:00 pm EST

The Impact of Weight Stigma on Men in a Culture Obsessed with Thinness and Physique

Wednesday, September 24

Keynote: Molly Robins, MS (PhD Student in Clinical Psychology)

10:00 - 11:30 am EST

CE: Unlearning, Uncertainty, and Liberation: Rethinking Recovery in an Anti-Fat World

Navigating Eating Disorder Risks in the Age of GLP-1 Medications: A Weight-Inclusive Clinical Approach

Lesley L. Williams, M.D.

12:00 - 1:00 pm EST

1:30 - 3:00 pm EST

Rebecka Peebles, MD, FAAP, DABOM, and Lauren Hartman, MD

Healing Without Harm: Ending Weight Stigma in Pediatric Healthcare

Anti-fat bias in Medical Education Through the Eyes of a Medical Trainee

Abigail Pont, MD

3:30 - 5:00 pm EST

5:30 - 7:00 pm EST

Naomi Busch, MD, and Signe Darpinian, LMFT, CEDS

Destigmatizing Menopause: What you need to know about weight inclusive menopause care

Thursday, September 25

Sharon Maxwell, MS

4:00 - 5 :30 pm EST

Staying Whole in Harmful Systems: Tools to Empower Patients and Transform Care

7:00 - 8:30 pm EST

Fireside Chat
Katie Piel, MA, LMFT, Shira Rosenbluth, LCSW and Molly Robbins, MS (PhD Student in Clinical Psychology)

Moderated by Chevese Turner, and Wendy Oliver Pyatt, MD

Treating Eating Disorders as a Clinician in a Large Body

In Person
Virgie Tovar, MA (WSAW Ambassador)

9:00 EST/6:00 pm PST

The State of Weight Stigma 2025
Location: Seattle Fat Mall - 1415 4th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101
@Seattlefatmall

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