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We are an international medical organization working to advance weight-inclusive care. We know that when healthcare centers body size over health, patients are too often dismissed, undertreated, or harmed, and that larger-bodied patients pay the highest price. By providing mentorship, education, and advocacy, AWSIM serves as a professional home for physicians and other healthcare professionals practicing and learning about weight-inclusive care.
Weight-inclusive care means treating the patient in front of you — not a number on a scale. It means rejecting the assumption that body size determines health, and practicing medicine grounded in evidence, ethics, and respect for every body.
Join AWSIM for a focused virtual symposium exploring complex clinical decisions involving cardiometabolic risk, GLP-1 medications, nutrition care, eating-disorder safety, and patient-defined goals.
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The evidence base for weight-inclusive care is growing — and so are the tools AWSIM offers to help you practice it. Earn CME and CBE credit, explore our Clinical Resource Library, and follow current thinking through the Clinical Blog.
AWSIM membership connects you with a community of peers who share your values, access to curated clinical resources, continuing education opportunities, and a collective voice advocating for systemic change in medicine. Whether you are just beginning to explore weight-inclusive care or have practiced it for years, membership is where that work gets stronger.
The work of challenging weight stigma in medicine can feel isolating — AWSIM is where you find your people. Stay in the loop with our newsletter, join the conversation in member forums, read the Community Blog, and follow us wherever you are.
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Explore perspectives from clinicians, researchers, and advocates shaping weight-inclusive care. Read practical guidance, evidence-based commentary, and member stories that connect ideas to everyday practice. Discover new posts and perspectives here.
Connect with colleagues who understand your work. Ask questions, share resources, and discuss real-world challenges with peers committed to weight-inclusive medicine. Log in to join the conversation and find support within the AWSIM member community.
Stay connected with AWSIM beyond the website. Follow us for research highlights, event reminders, AWSIM updates, and moments from across our community. Find us on your preferred social platforms and stay engaged with AWSIM’s work throughout the year.
Clinical Instructor, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center/Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
To me, AWSIM represents what is best about people in medicine: fighting not only to demand evidence-based medicine for all, not only for the patients we care for and those we are yet to meet, but for ourselves as thinking and feeling human beings. We are all in this together.
Standardized Patient Education Manager, University of Rochester Medicine
Educating clinicians and learners on weight-inclusive medicine often feels like pioneering without a map. Being an AWSIM member has reassured and inspired me, proving we aren’t alone in this vital movement to bring weight inclusion to the forefront of healthcare.
dralisakarmel.com
I joined AWSIM and felt like I had finally found my professional home. It has always been difficult to find professional spaces where I don’t first have to explain, defend, or speak up about the realities of weight stigma before I can fully participate. In AWSIM, there is a shared understanding that allows me to show up as both a clinician and a person without having to translate that part of my experience first. There is something incredibly meaningful—and honestly relieving—about being in a professional community that already gets it.
Co-founders:The Embodied Athlete @theembodiedathlete
We support AWSIM because it’s vital for us to have weight-inclusive medical providers who we trust to care for our clients with eating disorders. We could not do our work in sports nutrition and sports medicine without them!
Owner of Monroeville Direct Primary Care.
AWSIM offers a supportive space where I don’t have to defend my weight-neutral position, but can focus my energy on moving forward on the path to being a better clinician.
Wellspring Public Health Strategies LLC
I love being part of a truly evidence-based professional organization that is dedicated to combatting misinformation and undoing the harms of weight-centric science. As a public health professional, I know that my work is closely tied to my clinical colleagues’, and AWSIM gives us a space to work across disciplines to address the rampant weight stigma that affects us all.
LICSW, PhD (they/them)
I joined AWSIM because it fills a much-needed gap in our healthcare organizations landscape, by offered a solidly weight-inclusive space that is focused on building scientific evidence, sharing practice wisdom, and questioning the status quo in medicine. I’ve stayed with AWSIM because of the amazing community, the energy and engagement at our Scientific Assembly, and the opportunity to continue building solidarity with other allied health professionals.
MD, Founder, Family in Focus®
I joined AWSIM because it’s a collaborative community of advocates and professionals committed to inclusive medicine at every age and every size. That commitment is foundational to Family in Focus®, and doing this work together is how we create cultural change.
