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News and Trends Bariatric Times • January 2014 2014. The application submission process will be greatly simplified. Steps are as follows: Step 1. Click on the signup button. Step 2. Once you complete the signup process, you will receive an e-mail to confirm your registration. Make sure to check your spam box just in case. Please add us to your safe sender list so that you can continue to receive messages from us. Step 3. Upload all application material on the site as per the instructions shown at log in. Please have all of your supporting documents in PDF format for ease in uploading. The ABOM welcomes the Canadian Obesity Network Réseau canadien en obésité as its newest partnering organization. The ABOM aims to unify the field of obesity medicine under one certification process and to attract the support of as many meaningful partnering organizations as possible."The ABOM is pleased to receive the support of the Canadian Obesity Network Réseau canadien en obésité (CON-RCO) as a partnering organization. CON-RCO has been influential in improving the care of overweight and obese patients throughout Canada. "By offering ABOM certification, we are raising the competency standards of physicians who wish to become distinguished in the field of obesity medicine," said Dr. Robert Kushner, Chair of the ABOM and Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. The ABOM has seen a 33-percent increase in the number of Canadian physician candidates from 2012 to 2013. Over one in four Canadian adults are obese, according to measured height and weight data from 2007 to 2009. Between 1981 and 2007 to 2009, measured obesity roughly doubled among both men and women in most age groups in the Canadian adult and youth categories. "The Canadian Obesity Network is particularly excited about this partnership with the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which offers US and Canadian physicians a certification that ensures a level of expertise in the management of this complex and multifactorial disease," said Dr. Arya M. Sharma, CON-RCO Scientific Director, Professor of Medicine and Chair for Obesity Research and Management at the University of Alberta. The ABOM serves the public and the field of obesity medicine through the establishment and maintenance of criteria and procedures for examination and certification of candidate physicians who seek recognition of their accomplishments in obesity medicine. Physicians who complete the ABOM certification process in obesity medicine are designated Diplomates of the American Board of Obesity Medicine. The CON-RCO is Canada's largest professional obesity association dedicated to creating a credible community for change to reduce the mental, physical and economic burden of obesity on Canadians. Its mission is to act as a catalyst for addressing obesity in Canada and to foster knowledge translation, capacity building, and partnerships among stakeholders so that researchers, health professionals, policy makers, industry, and other stakeholders may develop effective solutions to prevent and treat obesity. PREEMINENT MEDICAL ASSOCIATION REVEALS 2013 LIST OF MOST FREQUENTLY SEARCHED MEDICAL CONDITIONS JACKSONVILLE, Florida—The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) released its first annual list of the most frequently 25 searched endocrine medical conditions for 2013, as measured by visits to the organization's patient education website, www.empoweryourhealth.org. Mirroring Google's most-searched medical symptoms of 2013, diabetes (#3 in the Google list) and thyroid (#5 in the Google list) were also in the AACE website's top 10 searches, although the number of thyroid health searches within the empoweryourhealth.org website was double the number of diabetes