Total Credits: .75 including .75 AOA Category 1-A Credit(s)
Childhood Obesity- New Evidence-Based Guidelines:
**Disclosures: Dr. Groos has no financial disclosures**
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Dr. Groos earned her medical degree from the University of Iowa College of Medicine and completed a pediatrics residency at University of Wisconsin Children’s Hospital in Madison, WI. She returned to Iowa in 2004 and joined Blank Children’s Hospital General Pediatric Department. After practicing there for 16 years, she joined PHC, Inc, the Federally Qualified Health Center in Des Moines, Iowa in 2020 as a general pediatrician. Dr. Groos also works part-time with Iowa Primary Care Association as clinical leadership consultant. She is an adjunct faculty member with the Stead Family Department of Pediatrics at the University of Iowa. She is active in community and legislative advocacy and health eating and active living promotion with many partners within the state. Dr. Groos currently serves as Faculty for the AAP Rural Health Obesity ECHO. She serves the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Obesity as Executive Committee member and Co-chair for the A Childhood Obesity Advisor Network (COACH). While at Blank she founded the Healthy Kids Program. She is a past-president of the Iowa Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, chair of the chapter committee on legislation, and founder and chair of the chapter committee on obesity. She received the 2018 Iowa Medical Society Physician Community Service Award for her statewide childhood obesity work.
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Help Your Patients Lose Weight- The Current Status of Obesity Treatment
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Targeting Cardiovascular Disease Prevention with Medical Weight Loss Therapy
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Advances in the Surgical Management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA): More Than Just the UP3
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Tales from an Ortho Surgeon: Detroit Gun Club and Other Emergencies
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