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Karrie-Anne's account of her experience of weight stigma.

Professor Sadaf Farooqi (Cambridge)

Description

As part of the Obesity Empowerment Network webinar for World Obesity Day for 2022, we recorded Karrie-Anne recounting her experiences of weight stigma with Prof. Sadaf Farooqi. This is an abridged recording of her experiences, used in the broadcast on the day.

One of our short films for patients, families, carers and health care professionals, delivered by patients.

In this short film, Karrie-Anne talks to Professor Sadaf Farooqi, about how stigma has effected her since the age of 7 in all aspects of life including school, work, healthcare and wider society.

This story is an important lesson for us all, healthcare professionals included, in how our treatment of people with Obesity has direct consequence on real people on a day to day basis from an early age.

About the speaker(s)

Professor Sadaf Farooqi (Cambridge)

Sadaf Farooqi is a Welcome Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Metabolism and Medicine at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is an internationally leading Clinician Scientist who has made seminal contributions to understanding the genetic and physiological mechanisms that underlie obesity and its complications. The work of Sadaf Farooqi and her colleagues has fundamentally altered the understanding of how body weight is regulated. With colleagues, she discovered and characterised the first genetic disorders that cause severe childhood obesity and established that the principal driver of obesity in these conditions was a failure of the control of appetite. Her work is often cited as an exemplar of how the translation of research into the mechanisms of disease can lead to patient benefit. She has received a number of awards including the ADA Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award 2019 and the Dale Medal 2021 (the highest honour awarded by the UK Society of Endocrinology). In 2021, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of her exceptional contribution to science.

Resources

The Obesity Empowerment Network, which is a UK non-profit, user led, advocacy organisation, dedicated to empowering people affected by obesity by giving them a public voice can be found here

The Genetics of Obesity Study, that conducts trials and aims to deliver new treatments for people with severe obesity by understanding the fundamental mechanisms controlling body weight, can be found here.

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