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Upcoming Symposium on Evidence-Based Prevention and Treatment of Obesity

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Event details:

When: Friday, September 18, 2015

Where: Hamilton Eye Institute Freeman Auditorium 930 Madison Ave. 3rd Floor

Time: 7:30a.m. – 12:30p.m.

 

RSVP details:

Please email utcme@uthsc.edu or call 901-448-5128 by 9/9/15 to reserve a seat.

 

Agenda:

7:30 am         Registration and Continental Breakfast

 

8:00 am         Welcome Address and Program Introduction: The Obesity Epidemic

Joan C. Han, MD

Director of the Pediatric Obesity Program at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology at the

University of Tennessee Health Science Center

 

8:20 am         Keynote Address:  Obesity Prevention and Treatment

Jack A. Yanovski, MD, PhD

Chief, Section on Growth and Obesity, PDEGEN Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development National Institutes of Health

 

9:30 am         Interventions for Early Childhood Obesity

Shari L. Barkin, MD, MSHS

William K. Warren Family Foundation Chair in Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics,

Director of the Division of General Pediatrics, and Director of Pediatric Obesity Research at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

 

10:10 am       Break

 

10:25 am       Exercise, Fitness, and Obesity

Kirsten K. Ness, PT, PhD

Associate Member at St. Jude Faculty

 

11:05 am       Motivational Interviewing and Technology Tools for Weight Management

Rebecca A. Krukowski, PhD

Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center

 

11: 45 am      Panel Discussion – Q&A: All Speakers

Moderator – Joan C. Han, MD

 

12:30 pm       Adjourn

 

Accreditation The University of Tennessee College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

 

Credit The University of Tennessee College of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 4 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.