| 9:15 AM |
Coffee and Registration |
| 9:30 AM |
Welcome
Ms. Karen Hoffman
President
North Carolina Association for Biomedical Research
North Carolina Speaks on Public Health Research and Obesity
Karen A. Goraleski
Director, Prevention Research Initiative
Research!America
(Moderator)
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| 10:00 AM |
THE OBESITY EPIDEMIC
Penny Gordon-Larsen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Nutrition, Schools of Public Health and Medicine
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Fellow, North American Association for the Study of Obesity
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| 10:30 AM |
The Cost of Obesity
Eric Finkelstein, Ph.D.
Health Economist, Division for Health Services and Social
Policy Research
RTI International |
| 11:00 AM |
Break |
| 11:15 AM |
HEALTH RISKS OF OBESITY: PART I
The Obesity Threat to Heart Health
Kim Truesdale, Ph.D.
Research Investigator, Department of Epidemiology
School of Public Health
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Obesity-Related Liver Disease
Anna Mae Diehl, M.D.
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology
Director, Duke Liver Center
Professor, Department of Medicine
Duke University Medical Center
|
| 12:10 PM |
Lunch |
| 12:40 PM |
HEALTH RISKS OF OBESITY: PART II
The Obesity - Prostate Cancer Connection
Whitney Robinson, M.S.P.H.
Research Assistant, Department of Epidemiology
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of
Public Health
Pediatric Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes: Causes, Treatment and
Prevention
Glenn Harris, M.D.
Director of Diabetology and Professor, Department
of Pediatrics
East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine
Pediatric Obesity and its Impact on Childhood Health and Development
Jennifer Cheng, M.D.
Chairman, Department of Pediatrics
Durham Regional Hospital
Primary Care Director, Center for Obesity and Eating Disorders
Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Duke University Medical Center
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| 1:55 PM |
Wrap-Up |
| 2:00 PM |
Adjourn |
