Clinical Fellowship in Pediatric Obesity and Nutrition
The University of Colorado School of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics and Children’s Hospital Colorado offer a Pediatric Obesity and Clinical Nutrition Fellowship Program. The goal of the fellowship is to provide physicians who are board certified or eligible in pediatrics, internal medicine-pediatrics, or family medicine with in-depth training in pediatric obesity and clinical nutrition that will prepare them for a career in clinical or academic medicine.
Program Strengths:
- Superior academic subspecialty training in a professional, collegial atmosphere.
- Teaching by national and international experts across multiple disciplines.
- Our fellows work with faculty across numerous fields including Nutrition, Endocrinology, Cardiology, Gastroenterology, and Pulmonology. Faculty offer a broad range of complementary clinical and research expertise.
- One-on-one working relationships between fellows and supervising faculty.
- Broad exposure to clinical nutrition both inpatient and outpatient, with both common and rare diagnoses.
- Opportunities exist to obtain in-depth training in each fellow’s specific area of interest.
- Long-standing fellowship clinical program with more than 15 years in existence. Fellows join the Section of Nutrition at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, which was the first independent section of nutrition in pediatrics in the United States.
- Active role in the education of residents and medical students.
Key Areas of Clinical Nutrition:
Our fellowship training offers pediatricians training and additional skills in key areas of clinical nutrition including but not limited to:
- Obesity
- Growth faltering
- Behavioral medicine
- Nutrition support
- Metabolism in critical illness
- Well child nutrition, including breastfeeding and infant feeding
Through our program, fellows have unique opportunities to develop skills in:
- Assessment and treatment of growth problems including obesity and growth faltering
- Multidisciplinary obesity assessment and treatment including pharmacotherapy and bariatric surgery
- Assessment and treatment of inpatient and outpatient nutrition problems
- Body composition, calorimetry, etc.
- Breastfeeding assessment and management
- Inpatient/critical care nutrition support
- Micronutrient requirements, deficiencies, etc.
- Motivational interviewing and career development
- Unique opportunities in global health nutrition
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For information about the Pediatric Clinical Obesity and Nutrition Fellowship for physicians, please contact:
Matthew Haemer, MD, MPH
Professor of Pediatrics
Fellowship Director
Section of Nutrition
Matthew.Haemer@CUAnschutz.edu
