3rd Scandinavian Pediatric Obesity Conference - Idefics study

Angelo Pietrobelli, Italy
Angelo Pietrobelli, MD, is a Pediatric Endocrinologist, who worked
with Dr. SB. Heymsfield at the New York Obesity Research Center,
Columbia University, New York, USA. Currently, he is Senior Staff
Physician at the Pediatric Unit, Verona University Medical School,
Verona, Italy. His research mainly focuses on Pediatric Body Composition,
as well as Prevention and Treatment of Pediatric Obesity. He is Pediatric
Associate Editor of the International Journal of Obesity, Associate Editor of the
International Journal of Body Composition Research, as well as Associate Editor of
the International Journal of Pediatric Obesity.
Birgitta Strandvik, Sweden
Birgitta Strandvik, MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at
Göteborg University (2005), is active senior, mainly focusing on
fatty acid metabolism in healthy children and children with chronic
diseases, and in animal experimental research focusing on the impact
on gene expression by fatty acids in regard to programming
during the perinatal period for the development of diseases in adults. She has published
more than 250 scientific papers and book chapters. During recent years she
has been especially interested in the association between essential fatty acids and
obesity and the metabolism of these fatty acids during growth. She has had several
international commitments, as being President of the European Society of Paediatric
Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, and is at present member of the Board
of the International Society for the Studies of Fatty Acids and Lipids (ISSFAL).
Ram Weiss , Israel
Ram Weiss MD PhD is a doctor of medicine specializing in pediatric
endocrinology who received his training and PhD at the Yale
school of medicine. Dr. Weiss is presently an assistant professor in
the department of nutrition and metabolism and the department of
pediatrics at the Hebrew University – Hadassah School of medicine
in Jerusalem. The focus of his research is on metabolic derangements in obese
children and adolescents with special focus on alterations of glucose metabolism.
Other topics of research include the biology of lipid formation and deposition in insulin
sensitive tissues and the pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic profile of insulin in
different body phenotypes.
obesity.
Kurt Widhalm, Austria
Kurt Widhalm, Dr is a Professor at the Department of Pediatrics,
University of Vienna, Austria. Professor Widhalm is also President
of the European Association for Research on Obesity in Childhood.
Professor Widhalm is one of the pioneers in the field of childhood
obesity and is an international expert on blood lipids and childhood