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DCS11 - From Harm to Healing: Providing Culturally Safe Obesity Care to Indigenous Patients

Friday, November 28, 2025
10:30 - 11:45 Toronto
Location: Room 205

    Speaker(s)

  • Jamaica Cass, MD PhD CCFP DABOM (she/her/hers)

    Director, Queen's Weeneebayko Health Education Program
    Queen's University
    Queen's University
    Kingston, Ontario, Canada

    Disclosure(s): CMA: Speaker/Honoraria (Ongoing); NCIME: Committee/Planning Member (Ongoing)

    • Moderator(s)

  • Deyowidron't Morrow, Registered Dietitian

    CEO
    Ogwayadadohgehsdoh
    Six Nation of the Grand River, Ontario, Canada

    Disclosure(s): I do not have a relationship with a for-profit and/or a not-for-profit organization to disclose

Disclosure(s):
Jamaica Cass, MD PhD CCFP DABOM: CMA: Speaker/Honoraria (Ongoing); NCIME: Committee/Planning Member (Ongoing)
Learning Objectives: In this session participants will:
-Understand the impact of colonization on the metabolic health of Indigenous peoples -Have defined cultural humility, cultural competence and cultural safety and understand the relationship of these terms to each other -Have described the harms of racism and fat stigma on Indigenous patients -Understand a wholistic approach to obesity medicine in the Indigenous context aF8