What you get by completing this session

  • 45 mins of CPD

    A 35 minute video lecture with presentation slides, you can stop and start anytime you like. 10 minute quiz is included.

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What you'll learn in this expert session

Metabolic syndrome and obesity in children and teenagers - it’s a big problem. Managing overweight or obese children in primary care is challenging to say the least. Health professionals need to identify, manage and monitor weight issues in their paediatric and teenage patients, but metabolic syndrome is often trans-generational, with obesity, poor lifestyle and related diseases often being endemic in these families. Engaging the parents is an important part of the solution - getting them to recognise the problem and then have them become healthy eating and lifestyle role models for their children. In this presentation, A/Prof Gary Leong will describe a realistic, practical and effective approach to managing paediatric obesity in the primary care setting.

About the Expert

A/Prof Gary Leong

A/Prof Leong has almost 30 years experience in the management of childhood growth and endocrine disorders and children and adolescents with Type 1 and 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.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    How to complete this course

    • Instructions
  • 2

    Metabolic Syndrome in Children

    • Summary

    • Video lecture (35 mins)

    • Quiz: test your learning (10 mins)
  • 3

    Document your CPD here

    • CPD Documentation and Reflection Activity Tool
  • 4

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