Join our lunchtime webinar series as we bring together a diverse range of
presenters to share evidence and resources and to provide important tools
and knowledge for primary healthcare clinicians working to improve children’s
health in the North Coast. Register for the series and attend the sessions
relevant to your clinical practice, or register and we’ll send a link to the webinar
recordings. Presented by Dr Gary Leong, Paediatric Endocrinologist.
Content covered
- the practitioner’s role in supporting children at risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease and other complications of obesity
- challenges and successes in addressing childhood obesity
- eaningful actions practitioners can take today
Learning outcomes
- recognise and diagnose childhood obesity
- distinguish simple obesity from obesity with an underlying medical cause
- assess which children are at risk of obesity-related morbidity
- dvise families on how to prevent and manage childhood obesity
About the presenter
Dr. Leong has almost 30 years experience in the management of childhood growth and endocrine disorders and children and adolescents with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. He received his paediatric and endocrine training at the Prince of Wales Children’s Hospital, Randwick (now the Sydney Children’s Hospital) and the former Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children’s Hospital, Camperdown, before undergoing 3 years of clinical and research training in paediatric endocrinology at the National Institutes of Health in the USA. He also has a PhD in Molecular Endocrinology and Vitamin D action from the Garvan Institute, UNSW. He left the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital in Brisbane in April 2017 where he had been working the last 13 years
as a Senior Staff Specialist in Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes and as a
Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at The
University of Queensland. Since December 2016 Dr Leong has been
appointed as a Senior Staff Specialist at the Nepean Hospital in Penrith. This
position is associated with an academic appointment at the University of Sydney through the Nepean Charles Perkins Centre Research Hub where he conducts clinical and basic research into child obesity and metabolism. Dr Leong is the paediatric clinical lead in the new whole of life span Nepean multidisciplinary Family Obesity Service at the Nepean Hospital and Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District. He is also the Head of Paediatric Diabetes services at the Nepean Hospital.
He has memberships of several national and international paediatric endocrine and research societies and was the last Chair of the Australasian Paediatric Endocrine Group (APEG) Growth Hormone Advisory Committee, which helped the Federal Department of Health by providing expert advice on children with short stature treated with growth hormone therapy.
CPD Points
This webinar has been accredited with RACGP for 1 Educational Activity Hours for accredited General Practitioners. All other health professionals will be provided with a certificate of attendance upon request for their self-reporting CPD.