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PROGRAMME
The
Organisers are very keen to continually receive feedback on the
content of the Conference programme. Please do E-Mail your comments or
questions
to Peter Mainprice at ncoh@indexcommunications.com to further enhance
this valuable meeting for those involved in preventing and managing
obesity.
Monday 20th March 2006
| 09.00 |
Registration and Coffee |
| 10.00 |
Welcome from the Colin Waine, OBE, Chair, National Obesity Forum |
| 10.10 – 10.40 |
National and Regional Policy: Vision to Implementation:
John Ashton CBE, Regional Director of Public Health,
Government Office North West |
| 10.40 – 11.00 |
Tea/Coffee/Water break and Exhibition – Weston Room 1 |
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Session 1:
The Nature of Obesity – Update
Chair: Colin Waine OBE |
| 11.00 – 11.30 |
Critical Periods in the Development of Obesity:
Colin Waine, OBE, Department of Primary Care, University of Sunderland, Chair, NOF |
| 11.30 – 12.00 |
Do Signals from Adipose Tissue Link Fat to Obesity Associated Pathologies?
Vidya Mohammed-Ali, Senior Lecturer, University College London |
| 12.00 – 12.30 |
Early Life Factors and Obesity:
Iain Buchan, Director and Senior Lecturer in Public Health
Informatics, University of Manchester |
| 12.30 – 13.30 |
Lunch and Exhibition – Weston Room 1 |
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Session 2:
Clinical Obesity – General
Review |
| 13.30 – 14.00 |
Visceral Obesity – a Major Risk Factor: for Diabetes and
Cardiovascular Disease:
Luc Van Gaal, Professor of Medicine, University Hospital
Antwerp, Belgium |
| 14.00 – 14.30 |
Obesity and Intelligence:
Deborah Gustafson, Psychiatrist, Sahlgrenska University
Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden |
| 14.30 – 15.00 |
Issues Around Healthy Body Image:
Andrew Hill, Senior Lecturer in Behavioural Sciences, University
of Leeds and Chairman of the Association for the Study of Obesity |
| 15.00 – 15.20 |
Tea/Coffee/Water break and Exhibition – Weston Room 1 |
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Session 3:
Individuals, Social Groups and
Society: Preventing Obesity -
Agents for Change
Chair: Andrew Hill |
| 15.20 – 15.50 |
Obesity and Ethnicity :
Sudhesh Kumar, Professor of Medicine, Diabetes and
Metabolism, University of Warwick |
| 15.50 – 16.20 |
Obesity Development in the Family:
Pinki Sahota, Reader in Childhood Obesity, Leeds
Metropolitan University |
| 16.20 – 17.00 |
National Actions Addressing the Obesity Epidemic and
Research Directions for the Future
Van S Hubbard, Director, NIH Division of Nutrition Research Coordination and Senior Advisor to the Secretary on Obesity US Department of Health and Human Services, USA |
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| 17.30 |
Satellite Symposium. The Approach to Weight Management in Children, Adolescence in Primary Care' hosted by The Obesity Awareness & Solutions Trust
Laurel Edmunds, Research Psychologist, Bristol Children’s Hospital |
| 18.00 |
Welcome Drinks Reception in Weston Room 1
Kindly sponsored by Marketing Manchester |
Tuesday 21st March 2006
| 09.00 |
Overwhelmed Consumers Need Realistic Solutions to Manage Weight
Andrew Benson, Vice President, International Relations for the International Food Information Council (IFIC) Washington, USA |
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Session 4:
Strategies for Maintaining Health
to Prevent Obesity
Chair: Jane DeVille-Almond |
| 9.30 – 10.00 |
Preventing Children becoming Obese: Tool up now
Tam Fry, Chairman, Child Growth Foundation, London |
| 10.00 – 10.30 |
Public Health Programmes in Obesity Prevention:
Ian Campbell Weight Management Specialist GP and Founder of the National Obesity Forum |
| 10.30 – 11.00 |
Tea/Coffee/Water break and Exhibition – Weston Room 1 |
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Session 5:
Primary Care Intervention
Chair: Tam Fry |
| 11.00 – 11.30 |
Prevention of Obesity at Primary Care Level:
Iain Broom, Professor and Consultant in Clinical Biochemistry and Metabolic Medicine, Robert Gordon University, University of Aberdeen, NHS GrampianThis speaker’s attendance is kindly supported by an educational grant from Roche Products Ltd |
| 11.30 – 12.00 |
Obesity – Who cares about the Men in Primary Care?
Jane DeVille-Almond, Independent Nurse Consultant,
Vice President Men’s Health Forum |
| 12.00 – 13.00 |
Lunch and Exhibition – Weston Room 1 |
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Session 6:
Back to Health: Interventions for and Recovering From Obesity
Chair: Iain Broom |
| 13.00 – 13.30 |
The Medical Management of Childhood Obesity:
Krystyna Matyka, Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics,
University of Warwick |
| 13.30 – 14.00 |
Tackling Child Obesity in the Community: the MEND Programme:
Paul Sacher, Clinical Research Fellow and Specialist
Dietitian, Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital, London |
| 14.00 – 14.30 |
Childrens’ Exercise Trials: UK and Overseas:
Robert Copeland, Senior Sports Science Officer,
Sheffield Hallam University |
| 14.30 – 15.00 |
Tea/Coffee/Water break and Exhibition – Weston Room 1 |
| 15.00 – 15.30 |
Pharmaceuticals and Weight Management:
Nick Finer, Honorary Consultant in Obesity Medicine
Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge |
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Session 7:
Responsible Society |
| 15.30 – 16.00 |
The Role of the Employer:
Jill Scott, Registered Dietician and Nutrition Consultant, Bristol |
| 16.00 |
Closing remarks |
WELCOME RECEPTION
Monday, 20th MarchSponsored by Marketing Manchester
The Welcome Reception will be held in the Exhibition area.This will provide an excellent
networking opportunity for all those attending the Conference. Guests are then free to
explore Manchester to enjoy one of the many restaurants.
This programme is subject to change without notice and all potential
participants are encouraged to refer back to this web site
ahead of the 2006 Conference to check the finalised programme.
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