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Comprehensive Weight Management Center

Lifelong Weight Management for Children and Teenagers

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The Comprehensive Weight Management Center offers a family-centered approach.

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Results from a breakthrough study show that Type 2 Diabetes is reversed after weight loss surgery in adolescents.

The Comprehensive Weight Management Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center offers a family-centered approach to treating children and teens who are overweight. Our team is comprised of:

  • Surgeons
  • Pediatric Gastroenterologist
  • Pediatricians
  • Clinical dietitians
  • Psychologists
  • Exercise physiologists
  • Pediatric Cardiologist
  • Nurses

From medical evaluation to behavior therapy and nutritional counseling to gastric bypas

s surgery, we are

passionately committed to helping our patients find lifelong solutions to weight management.

Interdisciplinary Team Brings Together Experts from Three Programs

The Comprehensive Weight Management Center combines the expertise of three programs: Surgical Weight Loss Program for Teens, HealthWorks! and the Division of Behavioral and Clinical Psychology. The patient and family sees all the specialists together in one combined visit. Learn more about each specialty:

HealthWorks! HealthWorks! is a medically-supervised, behaviorial-dietary program for overweight children ages 5 to 10 and adolescents ages 11 to 19. With the expertise of dietitians and exercise specialists, HealthWorks! provides intensive treatment of obesity, including diet modifications, promotion of a physically active lifestyle, behavior therapy and supportive parental involvement.
Surgical Weight Loss Program for Teens The Surgical Weight Loss Program for Teens offers a surgical weight loss option (gastric bypass surgery) for teenagers who suffer with clinically severe obesity and who have been unsuccessful in achieving sustained weight loss with other methods.
Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology The Division of Psychology assesses prospective surgical candidates and gives ongoing encouragement and emotional support to teens who have undergone gastric bypass surgery.