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Third Annual Clinical Research Symposium

Obesity 2007 -- Physiology and the Public Health Dimension

Friday, September 21, 2007
8:00am - 12:15pm
UW Health Sciences Building K-069
Check-in at 8:00am. Continental Breakfast and Lunch provided.

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Speakers Schedule
8:00 – 8:30 Registration and continental breakfast
8:30 – 8:35 Mary L. (Nora) Disis, MD Introduction
8:35 – 9:15 David Cummings, MD (UWMC) Hormonal Mechanisms of Weight Loss and Diabetes
9:15 – 9:30 Awards Presentations Lifetime Achievement: Bonnie Ramsey, MD
Young Investigator of the Year (Adult): TBD
Young Investigator of the Year (Pediatric): TBD
9:30 – 10:00 Christian Roth, MD (CHRMC) Hypothalamic Obesity and Weight Loss in Obese Children
10:00 – 10:30 Catherine Pihoker, MD (CHRMC) The Obesity Epidemic and Diabetes Mellitus in Children
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 11:15 Glen Duncan, PhD (UWMC) Causes and Consequences of a Sedentary Lifestyle
11:15 – 11:45 Brian Saelens, PhD (CHRMC) Environmental Contributors to Obesity in Children
11:45 – 12:15 Marian Neuhouser, PhD, RD (FHCRC) Public Health Consequences of the Obesity Epidemic
12:15 – 1:15 Lunch (provided)
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