This course is included in the NUTRITION 2025 Obesity Collection.

The George Bray Outstanding Scientific Achievements Award in Obesity Research is presented to a physician, clinician or investigator who has made a significant lifetime contribution to the field of obesity research. This award is designed to recognize an individual whose lifetime body of work includes meaningful contributions and/or demonstration of highly original, sustained, and reproducible scholarship that has made major contributions to the understanding of the causes, treatment and/or prevention of obesity. This award is endowed by Dr. George A. Bray and his wife, Marilyn M. Bray. Additionally, the George Bray Obesity Research Student Awards recipients will present about their research during this session.

Originally presented at NUTRITION 2025, ASN's flagship meeting which was held May 31 to June 3 in Orlando, FL.

Award Lecturer

Thomas Wadden, PhD 
Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine

Additional Speaker

Catia Martins, PhD, RD
Nutrition Sciences Research
The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Learning Objectives

• Review lifestyle modification for obesity: Benefits and limitations    
• Examine the use of lifestyle modification with first-generation anti-obesity medications (AOMs) to achieve larger weight losses     
• Describe the changing role of lifestyle modification with second-generation AOMs (also known as incretin-based or NuSH therapies)     
• Discuss clinical and research issues in combining these therapies