Psychological input into digitally-enabled weight management programmes

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Psychological input into digitally-enabled weight management programmes, Scotland webinar.

Join us for our upcoming Scotland specific webinar: Psychological input into digitally-enabled weight management programmes. This webinar is part of our education and knowledge sharing series for our Oviva Scottish clinical network.The webinar will be chaired by Professor Alexandra Johnstone from the Association for the Study of Obesity Scottish (ASO) who will be doing the opening address and will facilitate a summary of the session and conducting the Q&amp;A. The ASO is the UK’s foremost charitable organisation dedicated to the understanding, prevention and treatment of obesity.The keynote presentation will be delivered by Oviva Clinical Lead for Psychology, Dr Victoria Lawson, on the risks of binge eating disorder in Tier 3 weight management services. Dr Lawson will also discuss some ideas of how we approach this complex issue at Oviva and why digital support can aid this process. There will also be time for a wider discussion to consider how webinar participants manage binge eating disorder risk within their own services.We will also have Oviva Clinical Leads, Juliet Finnie speak about working in a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to provide weight management programmes and how Dietitians work with Psychologists and the benefits of that relationship.

Professor Alexandra Johnstone (ASO, Left)Alex is a Professor in Human Nutrition at The Rowett Institute, part of the School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition at the University of Aberdeen. She is the Chair for the Association for the Study of Obesity (ASO) Scottish Network. At the Rowett, she leads a research team to assess eating as a form of behaviour. She obtained her PhD in 2001 and has extensively published scientific papers on the role of appetite across the lifecourse. Appetite is a major influence to what and when we eat and she has conducted diet trials in studies with children through to the elderly, to particularly assess the role of dietary protein on motivation to eat. Recent grant success has been a BBSRC £1.6M Strategic Priorities Fund award on Food Inequalities and Obesity, with focus on the retail food environment (FIO FOOD GRANT). She is a key collaborator with EU colleagues and leads internationally competitive work through EU and UK Research Council grant awards. As a UK registered Nutritionist, she enjoys working with local, national and international food industry sector colleagues, to develop evidence to support the relationship between diet and health. &#x27;Association for the Study of Obesity Scottish Network welcome new members! We aim to organise regular meetings, to bring together basic and applied researchers, practitioners and educators, patient groups, policy makers and industry agencies in Scotland. The ASO Scotland Network should be the focus for sharing of evidence to inform practice, aimed at reducing obesity and the harms arising from it.&#x27; Dr Victoria Lawson (Oviva, Centre)Dr Vicky Lawson is a chartered health psychologist specialising in behaviour change, weight management and eating disorders for over a decade, both clinically and as a researcher. Vicky joined Oviva in September 2021 and is the Clinical Lead for Psychology at Oviva, where she drives psychology input and developments across programmes. Prior to joining Oviva, Vicky worked for the South London and Maudsley Trust as a Principal Health Psychologist, Public Health England as Psychology Clinical Champion for Physical Activity and with Professor Jane Wardle at UCL’s Health Behaviour Research Centre. She has published numerous papers on behaviour change and weight management, and is the co-author of &quot;Overcoming Weight Problems.&quot;Juliet Finnie RD (Oviva, Right)Juliet is an Oviva Diabetes Specialist Dietitian and has a postgraduate diploma in dietetics from Glasgow Caledonian University. She worked as a Diabetes Specialist Dietitian in Argyll and Bute for four years where she developed and implemented diabetes education services. Her experience includes managing the challenges of reaching patients in remote communities and rural islands. Juliet joined Oviva in 2017, she has since worked as a Dietitian and a Senior Dietitian across many of Oviva&#x27;s programmes and is currently in the role of Clinical Lead for Tier 3 Weight Management and Diabetes.

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