title: American association of clinical endocrinologists and american college of endocrinology consensus conference on obesity: building an evidence base for comprehensive action.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists/American College of Endocrinology "Consensus conference on obesity: building an evidence base for comprehensive action" convened March 23-25, 2014, in Washington, D.C. The premise of the conference was that by bringing together stakeholders in U.S. obesity care, representing the biomedical and public health models, new information would emerge to formulate actionable recommendations.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Key conference findings include 5 affirmed and 8 emergent concepts. These concepts include the need for a medically meaningful and actionable diagnosis of obesity, research that evaluates and refines a complications-centric clinical approach to obesity, the need for a better understanding of reimbursement mechanisms and the value associated with obesity prevention and management, increased nutrition and obesity education, and enhanced public awareness and health literacy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Next steps include deriving a more robust medical definition of obesity, translation of the affirmed and emergent concepts into actionable recommendations in the interests of patients with obesity, and developing logistics for effective implementation.
authors.affiliation: UAB Diabetes Research Center, GRECC Investigator and staff physician at the Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, AL.
authors.forename: W Timothy
authors.initials: WT
authors.lastname: Garvey
authors.affiliation: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology & Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
authors.forename: Alan J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Garber
authors.affiliation: Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
authors.forename: Jeffrey I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Mechanick
authors.affiliation: Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA.
authors.forename: George A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Bray
authors.affiliation: University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN.
authors.forename: Samuel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dagogo-Jack
authors.affiliation: Diabetes and Endocrine Associates, Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute, University of California San Diego, LaJolla, CA.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Einhorn
authors.affiliation: Grunberger Diabetes Institute; Internal Medicine and Molecular Medicine & Genetics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Bloomfield Hills, MI.
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Grunberger
authors.affiliation: Metabolic Institute of America, Tarzana, CA.
authors.forename: Yehuda
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Handelsman
authors.affiliation: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.
authors.forename: Charles H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Hennekens
authors.affiliation: Mayo Clinic Medical School, Rochester, MN.
authors.forename: Daniel L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Hurley
authors.affiliation: Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism & Lipid Research, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
authors.forename: Janet
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: McGill
authors.affiliation: Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ.
authors.forename: Pasquale
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Palumbo
authors.affiliation: Emory University Department of Medicine/Endocrinology, Atlanta, GA.
authors.forename: Guillermo
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authors.lastname: Umpierrez
authors.lastname: On Behalf Of The Aace Obesity Scientific Committee