Projects
Your generous contributions will support the ASMBS Foundation’s public and professional education initiatives - to raise awareness of obesity as a critical public health problem, reduce discrimination and to promote effective treatments of obesity.
Educational projects funded by the ASMBS Foundation:
- Double Platinum Sponsor of the Certified Bariatric Nurse Program
- Funded 22 ASMBS Research Grants
- Supported the ASMBS Nutrition Guidelines Project
- Supported the ASMBS Online CME Program
- Funded the ASMBS Integrated Health Research Awards
- Supported the Edward Mason Professorship at the University of Iowa
- Supported the educational and advocacy initiatives of the Obesity Action Coalition (OAC)
- Sponsored the Walk from Obesity, Walk on the Capitol in Washington, DC in 2008
- Funded the Walk from Obesity Cookbook
- Funded 11 Bryan G. Woodward Community Grants to support local initiatives to address the obesity epidemic
- Sponsored the 2010 and 2011 ASMBS Fall Educational Courses
- Funded the ASMBS Access and Advocacy Program
- Funded the 2011 ASMBS International Committee Awards
- Supported the revised ASMBS Patient Booklet
- Supported the ASMBS jLog™ Program, an online educational project to meet the information needs of patients and referring physicians regarding metabolic and bariatric surgery
- Organizes the annual Walk from Obesity fundraising events in over 70 cities across the U.S.
- Supported the ASMBS Quality Improvement Project
