Dr. Sarah Hampl is a General Pediatrician and Professor of Pediatrics at UMKC School of Medicine. She leads the Advocacy area at the Center for Children’s Healthy Lifestyles & Nutrition. Dr. Hampl provides clinical care in the PHIT Kids Weight Management Clinic and provides medical oversight for the PHIT Kids and Zoom to Health evening group programs. Dr. Hampl supports primary care providers in childhood obesity treatment. She is the chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics obesity clinical practice guideline writing group. She serves as an AAP Section on Obesity coach for colleagues in the Midwest and leads the University of MO Telehealth Network’s Show-Me ECHO on pediatric weight management. She and colleagues advocate for increased access to obesity treatment through the MO Council for Activity and Nutrition’s Healthy Weight Advisory Committee and Healthcare Workgroup. Dr. Hampl and CHLN and state colleagues are researching the impact of a newly released MO Medicaid treatment benefit for children with obesity, and the use of clinical tools to aid obesity prevention and treatment. Other research interests include correlates of patient attrition from weight management and interventions to improve retention, clinical outcomes of clinic- and group-based treatment and impact of healthcare professional educational interventions on weight bias