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.

BNORC TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS

Scholarship funds in the amount of $500 are available for up to four junior investigators.  These funds are to be used to partially offset the cost of attending an upcoming professional conference or meeting that relates to the themes of the Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center.  We would like to sponsor those with limited budgets: post-doctoral fellows, advanced graduate students, and those beginning a research career in obesity and nutrition.  Applicants must have plans to present an abstract at the meeting they will attend.  A copy of the abstract will be included in the Center’s annual report.  Scholarship recipients will also be expected to participate in the poster session at the Center’s Annual Program.  Please note that applications must be sponsored by a BNORC member.  Please click here for the application.

NUTRITION AND OBESITY RELATED SEMINARS

WEEK OF 06/20/10-06/26/10

(a) Adult

(b) Basic Sciences

(c) Children/adolescents

(b) HNRCA Seminar Series: Summer 2010 Seminar Series: Nutrition Research on the Cutting Edge

Monday, June 21, 2010 from 12:00 Noon-2:00 PM Lectures & Lunch Q&A

“Maternal B-vitamin supplementation from preconception through weaning suppresses intestinal tumorigenesis among offspring in the Apc+/1638N mouse”

Eric D. Ciappio, Vitamin & Carcinogenesis Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging Tufts University

“Improved obesity-induced insulin resistance in mice lacking Tumor Progression Locus 2 (TPL2)”

Yunkyoung Lee, Obesity Metabolism Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging Tufts University

Location: HNRCA Mezzanine Conference Room, 711 Washington Street, Boston Campus

(a) SPECIAL SEMINAR: HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Program in Cardiovascular Epidemiology and the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Training Program in Behavior, the Environment and Global Health

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 from 12:00 Noon– 1:00 PM

"Three-dimensional Body Imaging: A Computerized Method of Assessment of Obesity"

M. Reese Pepper, PhD, RD, Department of Nutritional Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin

Location: Harvard School of Public Health, Kresge – Room 502

Please contact Victoria Chin [VCHIN@hsph.harvard.edu] for additional information.

UPCOMING PROGRAM

(a, b, c) HMS Symposium: Nutrition & Global Health: 12th Annual Postgraduate Nutrition Symposium

Wednesday & Thursday, July 7-8, 2010

Please visit: http://nutrition.med.harvard.edu/education/edu_nut_symp12_regist.html

Location: Daniel Tosteson Medical Education Center (MEC), Carl Walter Amphitheater (2nd Floor), Harvard Medical School, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA

Please contact Jessie Schleif at 703-841-1600 or pmk@pmkassociates.com for more information or questions.

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 was held on Monday, June 14, 2010 at BUSM. 

• 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. 
  
  

• 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 2010 course was held on June 17, 2010 – Saturday, June 19, 2010.
  
  
• 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.