Seminars and Events

The Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center's Enrichment Program represents an approach that amplifies the central themes of the Obesity Center and draws together the various groups and institutions that are the Center. The Center’s enrichment program includes the programs and resources listed below. 

The Administrative Core would like to both post and distribute a list of the nutrition and obesity related seminars and programs that may be of interest to members and others working in these areas.  Please contact the Center Administrator if there is a series and/or special program that should be added to this list.  Please note that this is not meant to be an exhaustive list of educational opportunities.

Nutrition and Obesity Related Seminars for the

Week of 02/28/10-03/06/10

(a) Adult

(b) Basic Sciences

(c) Children/adolescents

(a) The Obesity Epidemic and Food Economics Seminar Series

Friday, March 5, 2010 from 2:00-4:00 PM

The World is Fat: The Fads, Trends, Policies, and Products that are Fattening the Human Race

Barry Popkin, PhD, Director, Interdisciplinary Center for Obesity, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

Tufts University, Sackler 114(Boston Campus)

Please contact Emmanuel Pothos (emmanuel.pothos@tufts.edu) for additional information.

Nutrition and Obesity Related Seminars for the

Week of 03/07/10-03/13/10

(a) HNRCA Seminar Series: Spring 2010 Seminar Series: Inflammation: Mechanisms, Pathology and Protection

Monday, March 8th, 2010 from 12:00 noon-1:00 PM – Lecture, 1:00-2:00 PM– Q&A Session*
Dietary Carbohydrates, Oral Health and Systemic Disease

Philippe P. Hujoel, PhD, DDS. Professor, Dental Public Health Sciences, Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology

University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA

HNRCA Auditorium, 711 Washington Street, Boston Campus

*Please RSVP to tristan.mangindin@tufts.edu if you would like to attend the Q&A session

(c) Monday Seminar presented by The Harvard Nutrition & Global Health Program at the Harvard Initiative for Global Health

Monday, March 8, 2009 from 4:00-5:00 PM

Interventions to Improve Nutritional Status of Children Under Two: The Need to Understand both “What to do” and “How to do it”

Kathryn Dewey, PhD, Professor, Department of Nutrition and Director, Program in International and Community Nutrition

University of California, Davis

Harvard School of Public Health Kresge Buildling, G-3, 677 Huntington Avenue

Contact Sean Baird, Program Manager, at sean_baird@harvard.edu with questions.

(b) Adipose and Metabolic Tissue Study Group Seminar Series

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 from 10:00-11:00 AM

Insulin regulation of lipolysis

Kostya Kandror, PhD, Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine

Boston University Medical Campus, 650 Albany Street, 7th Floor, Room 714

Please contact Donna Gibson at donna.gibson@bmc.org or (617) 638-7125 for additional information.

(a) Obesity Journal Club

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 from 12:00 noon-1:00 PM
Lemon SC, Zapka J, Li W, Estabrook B, Rosal M, Magner R, Andersen V, Borg A, Hale J.  Step ahead a worksite obesity prevention trial among hospital employees.  Am J Prev Med. 2010 Jan;38(1):27-38.

Presenter: Laura Ishkanian

Tufts University School of Medicine, Jaharis Conference Room 272

Please contact Keith A Lividini (Keith.Lividini@tufts.edu) for additional information.

(a) Annual Stare-Hegsted Lecture

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 4:00 PM

The End of Overeating

David A. Kessler, MD

Harvard School of Public Health, Kresge Building, Room G-1

(a, c) Obesity Medicine Interhospital Rounds

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 from 6:30-8:00 PM

Multidisciplinary Case Conference

Richard B. Simches Building at the Massachusetts General Hospital

Host: University of Massachusetts Medical Center

PLEASE RSVP as soon as possible to Scott W. Butsch (WBUTSCH@PARTNERS.ORG) if you will attend. 

(a) The Obesity Epidemic and Food Economics Seminar Series

Friday, March 12, 2010 from 2:00-4:00 PM

Obesity-Associated Metabolic Complications: Cause & Therapeutic Approaches

Andy Greenberg, MD, Director, Obesity & Metabolism Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging

Tufts University, Rabb Room, Lincoln Filene Center (Medford Campus)

For more information on the seminar series, contact Emmanuel Pothos at emmanuel.pothos@tufts.edu

UPCOMING PROGRAMS

(c) Grand Rounds, Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 12:00 noon

Type 2 diabetes in youth: how far have we come?

Silva Arslanian, MD, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine and Richard L. Day Endowed Chair in Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC

Wolff Auditorium, 800 Washington Street, Boston, MA

(a) Pepper Center Talk

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 from 9:00-10:00AM

Decline in Sex Hormones with Aging and their influence on Various Outcome Measures—Data from the European Male Aging Study

Dr. Frederick Wu, Professor of Medicine and Endocrinology, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Evans Building, 88 E. Newton Street, 1st Floor, Evans Seminar Room

(a, b) Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute Seminar series

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 from 12:00 noon-1:30 PM

The Role of Mitochondrial Function in the Development of Cardiovascular Disease

Scott W. Ballinger, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Division of Molecular and Cellular Pathology and Director, Bio-Analytical Redox Biology Core, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Boston University Medical Campus, 650 Albany Street, 7th Floor, Room 715

 Description of Educational Opportunities

• Host an annual program or retreat that provides an opportunity for Center members and other Boston area investigators and clinicians to participate in scientific exchange. This program includes participation of all currently-funded Pilot and Feasibility investigators and is attended by the Center’s Scientific Advisory Committee.  This year's program will be held on Monday, June 14, 2010 at BUSM. 

• The Epidemiology and Genetics Core hosted a mini-symposium on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at Harvard School of Public Health.  Please click here for a PDF version of the program announcement.  Please email the BNORC Administrator for additional information about this program.

• Obesity Roundtable:The Boston Obesity Center co-hosted an Obesity roundtable at BUMC on Friday, October 31, 2008 about the important issues surrounding the obesity epidemic.  Drs. Stephen O’Rahilly (University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories), Susan Fried (Clinical Nutrition Research Unit of Maryland, University of Maryland), John Speakman (Aberdeen Centre for Energy Regulation and Obesity (ACERO), Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen) and George Bray (Pennington Biomedical Research Center) discussed and debated the “Most Important Issues in Obesity”.  Please click here for a link to the audio/video presentation of the debate only.

• Obesity Medicine Interhospital Rounds is a new conference series, which is a collaborative effort among the obesity treatment programs at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Tufts Medical Center and the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.  It will be held Wednesday evenings from 6:30-8:00 pm approximately 6 times per year, rotating to a different hospital for each session.  Please click here for the preliminary schedule for the current academic year (2009-2010). 
  
  

• Annual symposium or workshop organized by one of the four core laboratories.These programs are intended to provide an educational forum for new and established investigators in the area(s) of expertise of the responsible core laboratory.

• Participation in the ongoing Continuing Medical Education course co-sponsored by Harvard Medical School, Tufts University School of Medicine, and the NAASO: The Obesity Society to transfer the latest information on the causes, consequences and treatment of obesity to the practicing physician. Participation of Center members in the course provides expertise not readily available elsewhere. In addition, BONRC's inclusion in the CME course helps to promote the identity of the Center and establishes the Center as a resource for expertise in obesity related activities.  The 2009 course was held on June 18-20, 2009.
  
  
• Organize an annual course designed to educate a select group (i.e., investigators, clinicians, physicians, trainees) about a particular topic(s) or treatment method related to the field of obesity.
  
  
• Adipose & Metabolic Tissue Study Group (Adipocyte Core): The Study Group meeting includes research seminars and presentations of research in progress and grant proposals for critical review. These bi-monthly meetings are held at BUSM.  Please click here for the 2009-2010 seminar schedule. 
  
  
• Obesity Journal Club (Clinical and Community Research Core): The Obesity Journal Club meets semi-weekly at TUSM to review papers published in biomedical journal that relate to obesity in population settings. Occasionally, the hour is used for doctoral students to present and get feedback on work in progress.
  
  
• Epidemiology Working Group Sponsored Seminars (Epidemiology and Genetics Core): This seminar series is held at Harvard School of Public Health and highlights a guest lecturer in a related field.  Please click here for a link to upcoming seminars.