Colleen Cook
President, Speaker, Author
About the Instructor
An enduring inspiration, for over 20 years Colleen Cook has educated and motivated audiences all over the world. She is a successful weight loss surgery patient from 1995 and President of Bariatric Support Centers International. Named “Bariatric Professional of the Year” in 2009, and honored by the International Federation of the Surgery for Obesity for her research. Colleen is the author of the internationally acclaimed, bariatric best seller, The Success Habits of Weight Loss Surgery Patients book and is a sought after speaker for both professional healthcare conferences and weight loss celebrations.
As an obesity education advocate, Colleen’s research-based presentations are a valuable addition to any healthcare conference for nurses, dieticians, or mental health professionals.
An active member of The National Speakers Association since 1996, Colleen is a seasoned speaker and her presentations are well crafted and can be customized for a particular conference theme.
FREE .5 CEU’s Bariatric Weight Regain
Weight regain in bariatric patients is of interest and concern to both bariatric patients and the professionals who serve them. In this session, you will receive helpful insights from struggling patients and receive our Stanford research on weight regain and patient’s perspective on how and why they have regained weight and what they are doing about it.