🎙️This episode is sponsored by an unrestricted education grant from Eli Lilly Canada

What does it take to move obesity care forward in Canada? In the season two opener of Scale Up Your Practice, Executive Director Lisa Schaffer and Scientific Director Dr. Sanjeev Sockalingam return to the podcast to unpack Obesity Canada’s 2026-2029 Strategic Plan. They explore what shifting systems, advancing care, and reshaping narratives can look like in practice, and how those changes can create more respectful, evidence-based experiences for people living with obesity.

In this episode

• Why Obesity Canada’s new strategic plan is focused on shifting systems, advancing care, and reshaping how Canada understands and talks about obesity
• What better obesity care could look like by 2029, from more compassionate clinical encounters to better access to evidence-based treatment
• Why better obesity care depends on systems that reflect current science and support compassionate, personalized, long-term care

Learning objectives

• Describe the three strategic drivers of Obesity Canada’s 2026–2029 Strategic Plan: Shifting Systems, Advancing Care, and Reshaping Narratives.
• Apply the podcast episode as a structured learning resource to support ongoing professional development within the CanMEDS Scholar role.
• Describe how the Reshaping Narratives pillar addresses systemic weight bias in media, policy, and public discourse.

Additional resources

• Obesity Canada’s 2026-2029 Strategic Plan: https://utm.guru/umqIM

• Canadian Obesity Education Competencies: https://utm.guru/umqIN 

• Embedding Obesity Care Into Medical Education: https://utm.guru/umqIO 

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Disclosures:

This episode script was developed using NotebookLM to synthesize complex source materials into a structured educational format. The tool was used to analyze the Canadian Obesity Education Competencies (COECs), the Obesity Canada Strategic Plan, and guest-specific research. Specific prompts were utilized to extract relevant learning objectives, map them to CanMEDS roles, and generate competency-based interview questions.

While NotebookLM assisted in drafting the narrative arc and educational framework, all content has been reviewed, fact-checked, and refined by the podcast hosts and Obesity Canada's clinical experts. This ensures the script aligns with current Clinical Practice Guidelines and authentically represents the lived experience perspective.