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Obesity Seminar Series 2009 - 2010

Tuesday, October 13, 2009
4-5 p.m. Baldwin Auditorium
Lisa Neff, MD
Feinberg School of Medicine
"Dietary Interventions for Insulin Resistance
    and the Metabolic Syndrome"

Thursday, November 19, 2009
NCCO/Division of Endocrinology
3-4 p.m.  Baldwin Auditorium
Richard Simerly, MD
University of Southern California/Childrens
TBA

Thursday, December 17, 2009
NCCO/Division of Endocrinology
3-4 p.m.  Baldwin Auditorium
Philipp Scherer, PhD
University of Texas/Southwestern

Thursday, January 21, 2010
NCCO/Division of Endocrinology
3-4 p.m.  Baldwin Auditorium
Shin-Ichiro Imai, MD, PhD
Washington University
TBA

Wednesday, February 24, 2010
3-4 p.m. Baldwin Auditorium
Frank Hu, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School
TBA

Thursday, March 18, 2010
NCCO/Division of Endocrinology
3-4 p.m.  Baldwin Auditorium
C. Ronald Kahn, MD
Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School
TBA

Tuesday, April 10, 2010
4-5 p.m. Baldwin Auditorium
Franck Mauvais-Jarvis, MD, PhD
TBA

Thursday, May 20, 2010
NCCO/Division of Endocrinology

3-4 p.m.  Baldwin Auditorium
Michael Schwartz, MD
University of Washington
TBA

Invited Presentations

Robert Kushner, MD
October 2008:  Feinberg School of Medicine Health and Wellness Fair
"Enhancing Personal Health and Wellness"
download the PowerPoint presentation (12.7MB, approx. 25 slides)

Lewis Landsberg, MD
October 2008:  The American Clinical and Climatological Society, Florida
"Do the Obese have Lower Body Temperatures?"

Linda Van Horn, PhD, RD
October 2008: 17th Annual Lipid Disorders Training Center, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore
"Update on Dietary Treatment of Dyslipidemias"

See list of invited presentations >

Past Events: Inaugural Lecture

November 13, 2008
Dr. George A Bray
Read More:  https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/newsworthy/2008B-November/ncco-opening.html
 

August 18, 2009 WebMD
Exercise and Weight Loss: 5 Truths

August 16, 2009 Washington Times
SOLUTIONS: Eradicating America's obesity epidemic

The Obesity Society's position statement on Regina Benjamin

Obesity Medicine Certification Program

July 9, 2009 WBBM
Fat Nation:  One in four is obese

April 15, 2009
NCCO is awarded one of eight Pfizer Visiting Professorships in Obesity. 

C. Ronald Kahn, MD, Mary K. Iacocca Professor, Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School will be our Visiting Professor in March, 2010.

Our Faculty in the News

October 21, 2008
Obesity Society Announces New President, Robert Kushner, MD
October 2008

Andrea Dunaif, MD has been appointed as an associate editor of the Journal Obesity (formerly Obesity Research), the official journal of the Obesity Society, formerly NAASO.

October 24, 2008
Linda Van Horn, PhD, RD, LD has been appointed to serve as chair of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee for the American Society for Nutrition.

November 28, 2008 The Chicago Tribune
New Center to tackle obesity epidemic

October 27, 2008 New York Times
Diabetes is a Risk in Pregnancy That Carries Risks Beyond

October 14, 2008
Obesity Center Director Offers Health and Wellness Tips


Last Published October 5, 2009 1:57 PM