Rethinking Obesity: The Paradoxes Reshaping Cardiometabolic Medicine – 1 CME Point
Speaker
Prof. Toni Vidal-Puig, MD PhD FRCP FMedSci MAE MBA
Metabolic and Obesity Expert
If you register now, then you can choose to watch it live or later. The webinar will be available later, but without any CME points.
>LIVE: 25th July, 2026 Saturday 10:00 am (UK time zone)
Agenda
- 40 minutes presentation and then 20 minutes Q&A with the host Nathan Nagel
- Redefining obesity and cardiometabolic risk assessment beyond body mass index (BMI)
- Adipose tissue dysfunction, lipotoxicity, and ectopic fat as central drivers of cardiometabolic disease
- The role of ectopic fat deposition in MASLD/MASH, HFpEF, vascular disease, and beta-cell dysfunction
- Fibro-inflammation, extracellular matrix remodelling, and adipokine signalling in metabolic disease progression
- Clinical relevance of the “metabolically healthy obese” and “metabolically unhealthy lean” phenotypes
- Ethnic and regional cardiometabolic risk patterns, including the Asian diabetes phenotype
- Metabolic flexibility as a unifying concept in obesity and disease progression
- Translating mechanistic insights into patient classification, risk stratification, and precision medicine approaches
- Therapeutic implications of GLP-1 receptor agonists, tirzepatide, and emerging MASH therapies
- Future biomarkers and treatment targets derived from adipose tissue biology
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