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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
International Scientific Committee Chair: Carl-Erik Flodmark, MD PhD, Childhood Obesity Unit, University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden Richard L, Atkinson, MD, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA Inge Lissau, PhD, Department of Health, Vordingborg, Denmark Aviva Must, PhD, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, USA Angelo Pietrobelli, MD PhD, Pediatric Unit, Verona University Medical School, Verona, Italy Organising committee Chair: Paulina Nowicka, Childhood Obesity Unit, University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden Annica Larsson, Childhood Obesity Unit, University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden Katrine Möller Voss, Childhood Obesity Unit, University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
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