Health care professionals gathered for the National Summit on Obesity to discuss the challeges associated with the obesity epidemic.
Speaker's biographical sketches (PDF, 34KB)
Presentations and speakers
National Summit on Obesity
Executive Summary (PDF, 989KB) - Building a plan to reduce obesity in America
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Actively Collaborating to Address Obesity in West Virginia (PDF, 759KB)
Ron D. Stollings, MD
West Virginia State Medical Association
West Virginia Medical Foundation
Dairy's Role in African American Health: Addressing the Obesity Epidemic (PDF, 376KB)
Winston Price, MD, FAAP
National Medical Association
"America Weighs In" A Campaign to Build Awareness of the Link Between Endocrinology and Obesity (PDF, 719KB)
George Bray, MD
Holly Wyatt, MD
Edocrine Society Obesity Advisory Board
Overview and Impact of the Obesity Epidemic (PDF, 155KB)
Exercise and Childhood Obesity (PDF, 82KB)
Mike Magee, MD
Obesity Worksite Interventions: Perspective from the Health Care Front (PDF, 427KB)
Michael Parkinson, MD, MPH
A Model Community Intervention: Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children (CLOCC) (PDF, 369KB)
Matt Longjohn, MD, MPH
Katherine Kaufer Christoffel, MD, MPH
Health in the Balance: Preventing Childhood Obesity (PDF, 720KB)
Douglas Kamerow, MD, MPH
Obesity: States Searching for Solutions (PDF, 264KB)
Lee Dixon, MA
Enabling the Nation's Schools to Help Prevent Obesity (PDF, 478KB)
Lloyd Kolbe, PhD
Medical Practice Interventions Physicians Practices (PDF, 35KB)
Robert Kushner, MD
Screening for Obesity: USPSTF (PDF, 813KB)
Douglas Kamerow, MD, MPH
Costs of Obesity and Communications Implications for the U.S. Healthcare System (PDF, 737KB)
Lou Diamond, MD
Kreg Sherbine
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