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Keynote Address

John Auerbach, MBA, Commissioner, Department of Public Health, Massachusetts: "Addressing Overweight and Obesity Through Policy"

Current Research and Knowledge in Pediatric Obesity

• Matthew Gillman, MD: Infant Feeding, Infant Weight Gain, and Risk of Obesity
• Leann Birch, PhD: Predictors and Consequence of Eating Behavior
• Elizabeth Goodman, MD: Social Hierarchy and Stress Associated with Adolescent Obesity
• William Dietz, MD, PhD: Trends in Childhood Obesity: What Can We do to Reverse the Epidemic?

Panel Discussion

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Future Advances in Pediatric Obesity

Theme 1: Advances in Basic Research

• Hans-Rudolf Berthoud, PhD: Neurological Effects of Fat Gain
• Andrew Greenberg, MD: New Insights into Obesity and its Complications

Theme 2: New Intervention Directions

• Christina Economos, PhD: Action-Oriented Intervention Research
• Ian Lockwood, PE: Low Cost, No Cost Solutions- Urban Design and the Built Environment

Breakout Sessions

Hot Topics

• Michael Holick, MD, PhD: "D-Lightful" Vitamin D: Shining Light on its Global Health Benefits
• Michael Jacobson, PhD: Reducing & Regulating Dietary Sodium
• Cathy Kapica, PhD: Effective nutrition communication: can we bridge the gap between nutrition science and nutrition that sells?
• Miriam E. Nelson, PhD: Behind the Scenes: Development of the US Guidelines for Physical Activity and Nutrition

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