April 3, 2025 – ACP announced that it has awarded a total of $260,000 in grants to support regional programs that address equity challenges in obesity care. Thirteen grantees were each awarded $20,000 to implement collaborative regional outreach projects; two of these grantees were from Arizona.
Through “Advancing Equitable Obesity Care through Regional Action Grants,” ACP aims to inspire local collaboration models across the country to train and empower medical professionals to partner with patients to combat misinformation and heighten clinical capacity to manage care for people with obesity. The program capitalizes on local internal medicine physicians’ relationships and partnerships with a variety of delivery systems and community partnerships, to broaden educational reach to both physicians (and physician trainees) and their patient populations.
Grantee projects will address goals such as filling knowledge and skills gaps in equitable obesity care and management among medical students, physicians, and other clinical staff; addressing obesity treatment, cardiometabolic conditions related to obesity, and preventive care for general health among people with obesity; alleviating stigma and bias encountered by people with obesity, particularly in healthcare settings, and combatting misinformation about the causes and treatment of obesity for patients and the public.
Projects were selected based on feasibility and potential impact, and description of the approach that will be used to evaluate impact. The following grantees from Arizona were awarded:
Bisi Alli, DO, MS, dipABLM, FACP, FAMWA, LEAN Six Sigma Black Belt, ACP Arizona Chapter, WellNEST Medicine, LLC, Project name: Transforming Obesity Care in Arizona through Food as Medicine.
Jennifer Meyfeldt, M.D., ACP Arizona Chapter, University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix Internal Medicine Residency, Project name: Beyond the Scale: Empowering Resident Physicians in Comprehensive Obesity Care.
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