Julia Wright, MD

Weight management is more than just a checklist– Julia Wright, MD gives insights into discussing weight and nutrition, and planning behavioral health modifications with patients based on her experiences at OnTrak.

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Weight management is more than just a checklist. 

Strategies for discussing diet and nutrition with patients

Weight loss programs are hard to initiate and hard to sustain. Such a program would need to maintain sustained visits over time—a prime opportunity for telehealth offerings. Julia Wright, MD discusses how telehealth offerings can benefit both physicians and patients working together to take back control of obesity.

Weight loss programs are a prime opportunity for telehealth offerings.

Telemedicine benefits patients struggling with their weight

Maintaining the connection and awareness to the obesity problem is critical, Julia Wright MD said during our conversation. Here, she explains how telehealth is providing a new front in obesity treatment and weight management.

How telehealth is providing a new front in obesity treatment and weight management.

Connecting and coaching weight management through telehealth

Comorbidities that complicate an individual’s response and recovery to an infection of SARS-CoV-2 are still varied and relatively unknown. Julia Wright, MD, explains that obesity, like other chronic conditions, could be a factor for worsened disease and that individuals suffering from obesity should take extra precautions to limit factors of contagion.

Julia Wright, MD, explains that obesity, like other chronic conditions, could be a factor for worsened disease and that individuals suffering from obesity should take extra precautions to limit factors of contagion.

Obesity’s role in combating SARS-CoV-2

Julia Wright, MD, discusses how particular social determinants of health influence individuals’ susceptibility to obesity. By addressing these determinants in routine patient care, physicians may be better able to reduce obesity and its complications.

By addressing these determinants in routine patient care, physicians may be better able to reduce obesity and its complications.

How social determinants of health play a role in obesity

Julia Wright, MD, discusses how America’s crisis of obesity was faring prior to the start of the pandemic and why this remains an important battle in this first video from our 6-part series.

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