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Official Calendar of Events

2025

Sunday, September 21

Panel Discussion
In Partnership with The National Alliance for Eating Disorders

Moderated by Chevese Turner
Featuring Alliance Group Facilitators

6:00 - 8:00 pm EST

Tuesday, September 23

9:30 - 10:00 am EST

Welcome: Wendy Oliver Pyatt, MD & Chevese Turner

10`:00 - 11:30 am EST

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

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

12:00 - 1:00 pm EST

Esther Tambe, MS, RDN, CDN, CDCES

GLP-1s & Diabetes and How Weight Stigma Impacts

1:30 - 3:00 pm EST

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

Anna Nokes, LCSW

3:30 - 5:00 pm EST

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

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

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

5:30 - 7:00 pm EST

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

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

Moderated by Chevese Turner & Wendy Oliver Pyatt, MD

7:00 - 8:30 pm EST


Treating Eating Disorders as a Clinician in a Large Body

Treating Eating Disorders as a Clinician in a Large Body

9:00 - 11:00 pm EST/6:00-8:00pm PST

In Person
Virgie Tovar (WSAW Ambassador)

The State of Weight Stigma 2025
Location: Seattle Fat Mall: 1415 4th Avenue, Seattle, WA
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