🎙️ This episode is sponsored. Obesity Canada received an unrestricted educational grant from Eli Lilly Canada to produce this episode. 🎙️

Welcome to Scale Up Your Practice, the podcast where we bring together science, compassion, and lived experience to help healthcare professionals better support people living with obesity.In this episode, co-hosts Dr. Roshan Abraham and Michelle McMillan sit down with globally recognized endocrinologist and obesity expert, Dr. Sue Pedersen. 

With over 20 years of clinical experience and a deep commitment to reshaping obesity care, Dr. Pedersen shares her personal journey into the field, her proudest accomplishments, and her ongoing mission to push for early, long-term, stigma-free treatment of this complex disease.

In this conversation:

• How a lack of treatment options and compassion sparked a lifelong passion
• Reflections on contributing to the Canadian Adult Obesity Clinical Practice Guidelines — three times
• What’s changed in obesity care over two decades… and what still needs to change
• The importance of recognizing obesity as a chronic disease, not a character flaw

This episode is part of our Celebrating Canadian Excellence series, highlighting leaders who are changing the story of obesity in Canada and beyond.

Whether you're a physician, dietitian, nurse, pharmacist, mental health professional—or someone curious about the future of chronic disease care—you’ll leave this episode with insights and inspiration to elevate your practice.

Want to hear more from Dr. Pedersen? She’ll be joining us again soon for a deeper dive into pharmacotherapy in obesity management. Make sure you’re subscribed to be notified when we release new episodes!

Additional Resources:

• Canadian Adult Obesity Clinical Practice Guidelines: https://utm.guru/uimh2 

• Free course: Introduction to Adult Obesity: https://utm.guru/uimh4