Dr. Sarah Hampl is a member of the Division of General Academic Pediatrics at Children’s Mercy and a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of MO-Kansas City School of Medicine. She leads the advocacy focus area at the Center for Children’s Healthy Lifestyles & Nutrition, a partnership between Children’s Mercy and the University of KS Medical Center. She has been working with children and families with obesity for the past 20 years, and provides clinical care in the Promoting Health in Teens and Kids (PHIT Kids) Weight Management Clinic and as the medical director of Weight Management group programs. She is a member of the AAP Section on Obesity, and serves as an adviser for pediatric healthcare providers in DHHS Region VII.