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Skeletal Physiology, Weight Wellness, and Optimizing The Musculoskeletal Healthspan SIG Webinar
Date(s):
April 21, 2026
Venue:Virtual Meeting
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Website:https://www.endocrine.org/our-community/special-interest-groups/bone-and-mineral
Fee(s):This event has a fee
Description:This is a collaborative webinar on obesity management, weight wellness, and musculoskeletal health. In the era of GLP1 agonist - based therapies used to successfully achieve weight wellness, a better understanding of these impact skeletal physiology across the healthspan is needed. The complex pharmacology of GLP1/GIP agents on marrow cell fate and phenotype as relevant to skeletal physiology and obesity medicine is presented by Dr. Rosen. The gaps and needs in pediatric / adolescent weight wellness as relates to young adult bone health will be addressed by Dr. Krishnan. Dr. Yu will reflect upon the integrated goals of care for T2D, obesity and weight wellness management vis-a-vis musculoskeletal frailty risk in our aging population. After the 3 individual presentations, there would b...
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Burak, Mehmet Furkan
Organization: Brigham and Women's Hospital
Josefson, Jami
Organization: Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Towler, Dwight Arnold
Organization: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Dwight Arnold Towler, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Medicine and Director, Division of Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). He is a specialist in bone and mineral metabolism disorders – including osteoporosis and the vascular calcification that hardens arteries with aging, diabetes, and chronic kidney disease.
Dr. Towler earned his medical degre
Yu, Elaine Wei-Yin
Organization: Massachusetts General Hospital
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