06/25/2026
2026 OAPA Annual Conference - CME #15
Saturday, August 29, 2026 from 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
“Rethinking Cultural Perspectives of the Body and Health Through Art" + “Practical Strategies to Navigate Obesity Management in Primary Care"
This special two-part session is supported by an educational grant from The France Foundation.
“Rethinking Cultural Perspectives of the Body and Health Through Art"
Presented by Siobhan Conaty, PhD
Learning Objectives:
- Apply close-looking techniques from art history to enhance observation and nonverbal communication with patients
- Integrate cultural and social context analysis to understand factors influencing our perceptions of obesity and related comorbidities
Speaker Information:
Dr. Conaty specializes in applying art history methods to enhance continuing medical education and clinical training. Her research demonstrates how visual analysis can improve diagnostic accuracy, clinical communication, and cultural awareness. Her recent publications include a study in Academic Radiology (Feb. 2024), co-authored with radiology colleagues, demonstrating how art history methods help residents identify subtle diagnostic cues. In the Journal of Health Communication (May 2024), she examines historical imagery of breast cancer to illuminate patient experience, healthcare inequities, and clinical communication around these issues. Dr. Conaty holds leadership roles with the Health Humanities Consortium and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia’s Section on Medicine and the Arts. She also serves as editor of the “Historical Perspectives in Art” section of the Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation (published at Emory University School of Medicine) and previously was Medical Humanities Scholar in Residence at Penn State College of Medicine. Through her collaborations with medical educators, Dr. Conaty advances an interdisciplinary art history approach to CME that helps clinicians see, interpret, and care with deeper precision and empathy.
“Practical Strategies to Navigate Obesity Management in Primary Care"
Presented by Joy Mockbee, MD
Learning Objectives:
- Prioritize the management of obesity in treatment plans for patients with obesity or overweight and comorbid complications
- Utilize evidence-based strategies to establish treatment plans with patients with obesity or overweight
- Modify treatment plan for patients with obesity or overweight based on composite medical outcomes, including comorbidities and cardiometabolic risk measures
Speaker Information:
Dr. Mockbee has been providing primary care to her patients for 25 years and continues to be energized by the innovation and mission of community health centers. She attended medical school at University of Arizona and completed a Master of Public Health at Harvard. She did residency at the Ventura County Medical Center Family Medicine, then returned home to Tucson. Dr. Mockbee has been Medical Director for Family Medicine since 2003, working on clinician workforce development and support, efficient operations, quality improvement and population health, research collaborations, and program development. Her clinical interests are weight management, care of people experiencing homelessness, employee and patient wellness, and behavioral health. In 2015, Dr. Mockbee became Board Certified in Obesity Medicine through the American Board of Obesity Medicine. She has collaborated with a multidisciplinary group to develop El Rio’s Weight Management programs for adults and children. Her interests outside of medicine are spending time with family, bicycling, backpacking, running and being outside.
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