2025 PRESENTER PROFILES
Weight Bias
Sunday, June 22, at 8:00 a.m. CT
Room W192 A-C • McCormick Place Convention Center
Internalization of Weight Bias and Stigma
Rebecca Pearl, PhD
Associate Professor,
University of Florida
What is your presentation about?
This presentation will provide an overview of internalized weight stigma and its impacts on health. It will also describe potential strategies to reduce this internalization and its harms.
How do you hope your presentation will impact diabetes research or care?
Many patients with diabetes also have obesity and may internalize weight stigma. This presentation may help to spark interest in the topic from diabetes researchers who may not have considered the impact of weight stigma on diabetes management. Greater awareness and understanding of internalized weight stigma among health care professionals could enhance their treatment of patients with obesity and diabetes.
How did you become involved with this area of diabetes research or care?
I first became involved in diabetes research by collaborating with the diaTribe Foundation.
