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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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