Upcoming AWSIM Events!
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What to expect:
In dermatology, weight is often used as an explanation for skin changes, inflammation, disease severity, infections, delayed healing, and other clinical concerns. But when weight becomes the default explanation, important diagnoses can be missed.
This session uses real-world dermatology cases to examine how weight bias can shape clinical reasoning, patient-provider interactions, and diagnostic accuracy. Participants will explore how weight-centered assumptions can contribute to delayed diagnosis, inappropriate treatment, missed opportunities for care, and erosion of patient trust.
Through cases ranging from severe hidradenitis suppurativa to everyday infections, adolescent concerns such as acne, adult conditions such as hair loss, benign findings like skin tags, and serious diagnoses such as cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, this session will examine where weight-based assumptions show up and what evidence-informed care requires instead.
The session will also address how common recommendations such as “just lose weight” may worsen disease, obstruct evidence-based treatment, or obscure complications associated with GLP-1 therapies.
Participants will leave with practical strategies for providing more accurate, weight-inclusive dermatologic care, including expanding differential diagnoses, recognizing bias in clinical decision-making, and communicating about skin and hair health without reducing patients to body size.
This session is relevant for dermatologists, primary care clinicians, pediatricians, endocrinologists, eating disorder professionals, trainees, and all clinicians seeking to improve diagnostic precision and patient-centered care across specialties.
Registration
Free for AWSIM members and students. $35 for non-members. Please reach out to info@awsim.org with any questions and/or if cost is a barrier to your attendance. Recording will be available.
CME Information
The Michigan State University designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
UPCOMING EVENTS!!
Stay connected with AWSIM’s upcoming education and community gatherings.
Explore upcoming webinars, member rounds, and educational events below.
AWSIM Member Rounds
A monthly member-only space for connection, peer support, and sustaining weight-inclusive care.
AWSIM Member Rounds is a live, 60-minute interdisciplinary gathering held on the third Wednesday of each month for AWSIM members who are working to implement and sustain weight-inclusive care in real-world clinical, educational, research, advocacy, and systems settings.
Each month, members will have the opportunity to connect with colleagues across disciplines, share challenges and wins, exchange resources, and reflect together on what it means to practice weight-inclusive care within weight-centric systems.
This is a low-pressure, community-centered space for professional connection, informal case-based reflection, and practical support.
What to Expect
AWSIM Member Rounds will be lightly facilitated and conversational. Each session may include a framing question, open discussion, resource sharing, and opportunities for members to raise questions, challenges, or themes they are navigating in their own work.
This space is designed to help members feel less isolated, build interdisciplinary relationships, and stay connected to the broader AWSIM community.
Important Note
AWSIM Member Rounds is a peer learning and networking space. It is not a formal CME session, clinical supervision, legal consultation, or patient-specific medical consultation. Participants should avoid sharing identifying patient information and remain responsible for applying their own clinical judgment within their professional scope and local practice context.
