Clinical Weight Management
Certification program.
September 24–25, 2027
JW Marriott · Phoenix, AZ
$1,800 accredited certification · 2 days
- Evaluate GLP-1 & GIP candidacy
- Titrate safely, manage side effects
- Know when to switch therapies
- Build a real maintenance plan
- Talk to patients in language they trust
- Compounded vs. FDA-approved
- Oral GLP-1 & next-gen therapies
A growing share of your patients started a GLP-1 without you.
They got it from a med-spa, a telehealth subscription, or a friend's leftover pen — and now they're in your exam room asking about dosing, side effects, plateaus, and what happens when they stop. This certification is built for that conversation.
The drugs got easier to prescribe. The medicine got harder to practice.
Ten years ago, weight-management training meant nutrition counseling and, for a small number of patients, a referral to bariatric surgery. That landscape is gone. Pharmacotherapy now works well enough — and is prescribed widely enough — that most primary care and specialty clinicians are already managing patients on GLP-1 or GIP therapy, whether or not they intended to specialize in obesity medicine.
2026 removed the last two barriers.
The first oral GLP-1 for weight management was approved in April, taken once daily with no food or water restrictions. And negotiated pricing brought monthly costs to a fraction of what they were — including $245 per month for Medicare and Medicaid. The patients who couldn't afford these drugs last year can afford them now, and they are not all coming through obesity clinics.
The bottleneck isn't access to the medication anymore.
It's clinical judgment: who's actually a good candidate, how to titrate safely, how to manage GI side effects and lean-mass loss, when a plateau means switching therapies versus staying the course, and how to build a real maintenance plan for patients who eventually come off the drug.
Case-based, practice-ready training.
Those are exactly the decisions this program is built to sharpen, for clinicians who are done improvising.
Fast stats
4 in 10
U.S. adults live with obesity — 40.3%, per CDC's most recent national survey data.
Off label
Prescribing and monitoring gaps around weight-loss medications are drawing closer scrutiny from payers and licensing boards.
No consensus
Discontinuation and maintenance protocols still vary widely between practices — this program gives you a defensible standard.
46%
Prevalence among adults age 40–59, the highest of any age group and the core of most primary care panels.
2027
The year GLP-1 literacy stops being optional for primary care.
2 days
To leave practice-ready — not just credentialed on paper.
Why attend
What you walk away able to do — plans you can actually use on Monday morning.
This isn't a survey course. Every session is built around a decision you'll need to make in practice — not just a concept to recognize on a test.
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01
Evaluate a patient for GLP-1 or GIP candidacy
Work through the labs, history-taking, and risk screening you need before any prescribing conversation starts.
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02
Titrate and manage side effects with confidence
Move from general dosing principles to a specific plan — managing GI side effects and lean-mass loss as you go.
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03
Know when to switch therapies versus stay the course
Read a plateau correctly, and know what to offer when the current therapy isn't the answer.
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04
Build a real maintenance plan
Set a follow-up rhythm and a defensible discontinuation plan for patients who eventually come off the drug.
Who should attend
You won't be the only one in the room figuring this out.
Every seat is filled by someone treating the same patients you are, from a practice that looks something like yours.
Physicians & family medicine
Building GLP-1 candidacy and titration into an existing practice without adding chaos to your schedule.
Nurse practitioners & PAs
Sharpening prescribing confidence and knowing exactly when to escalate a case.
Functional & integrative clinicians
Grounding an existing wellness practice in weight-management protocols that hold up to scrutiny.
New to GLP-1 prescribing
Getting a real foundation instead of piecing one together from webinars.
Faculty
Learn from clinicians in the trenches.
Gordon Crozier, DO
Medical Director, Crozier Clinic · A4M lead educator
Gordon Crozier, DO
Medical Director, Crozier Clinic · A4M lead educator
A pioneer of genetics-based integrative medicine, clinical faculty at the University of Kentucky, and lead educator and curriculum developer for A4M — he has trained over 250 centers nationwide in peptide therapy. Author of Healing One Cell at a Time and Heal Your Cells.
Marisol Duque, MD
Integrative & bio-regenerative medicine
Marisol Duque, MD
Integrative & bio-regenerative medicine
A medical surgeon with over 18 years treating patients across Latin America and Europe in integrative medicine, tissue regeneration, and longevity — with more than 10,000 patients treated across her career.
Cliff Edberg, RD, CPT
Registered dietitian & personal trainer, Life Time
Cliff Edberg, RD, CPT
Registered dietitian & personal trainer, Life Time
Over 18 years in health and fitness, the past 15 spent at Life Time educating and developing the trainers who support its members — with a personal journey from childhood obesity to national fitness coaching.
James LaValle, RPh, CCN
Clinical pharmacist · integrative & precision medicine
James LaValle, RPh, CCN
Clinical pharmacist · integrative & precision medicine
An internationally recognized clinical pharmacist and board-certified clinical nutritionist with more than 40 years in natural products, drug/nutrient depletion, and peptide therapy. Clinical co-chair at A4M and Chair of the International Peptide Society.
Laura LaValle, RDN, LD
Clinical dietitian · weight management
Laura LaValle, RDN, LD
Clinical dietitian · weight management
A registered dietitian with 30 years of clinical dietetics experience across hospital and integrative-nutrition private practice, with advanced certification in adult weight management.
Curriculum
Built around the visit you're already having.
Each day moves from the science to the exam room — ending in frameworks you can use with your next patient, not just your next exam.
Schedule · September 23–25, 2027
Detailed agenda announced soon
Ready to elevate your practice?
Join us this September in Phoenix and bring GLP-1 management in-house.
Two days of clinical weight-management training — the protocols, and the confidence to deliver measurable results.
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