| SEP 15, 2006 | Jennifer Nasser, Ph.D. Research Associate Obesity Research Center St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY "Similarities between fat/sugar combinations and drug" speedballs": Are poly-drug combinations useful models for studying food over-consumption?" |
| SEP 22, 2006 | James Greenberg, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Health and Nutrition Sciences Brooklyn College of C.U.N.Y., Brooklyn, NY "Putative biases in estimating mortality attributable to obesity in the U.S. population" |
| SEP 29, 2006 | Isabelle Barriere, Ph.D. Garey V. Ellis, M.D. Co-Directors Yeled v' Ylada Early Childhood Center Brooklyn, New York "The prevention of the increase of obesity through a culturally appropriate preschool intervention" |
| OCT 6, 2006 | Gabriel Ionescu, M.D. Gastroenterology Fellow Saint Luke's- Roosevelt Hospital Center New York, NY "Body composition and metabolism in HIV infection: A role for mitochondria in the HAART era" |
| OCT 13, 2006 | Kuan Zhang, Ph.D. Research Associate Obesity Research Center St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY "Comparison of spontaneous physical activity between lean and obese/overweight subjects" |
| OCT 20, 2006 | NO CONFERENCE - NAASO Annual Meeting |
| OCT 27, 2006 | Tiffany Thomas, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Candidate Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology University of California, Berkeley "Application of new stable isotope methods: two interventions in insulin resistant animal models" |
| NOV 3, 2006 | Susan Ettinger, Ph.D. Research Associate Obesity Research Center St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY "Is there a Dark Side to folic acid? Is there an obesity connection?" |
| NOV 10, 2006 | William Bauman, M.D. Professor of Medicine and Rehabilitation Medicine Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY Spinal Cord Damage Research Center, VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY "Body composition and metabolic changes in persons with spinal cord injury" |
| NOV 17, 2006 | Yael Latzer, D.Sc. Associate Professor Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Studies Director, Eating Disorders Clinic, Haifa University, Israel. Topic to be Announced |
| NOV 24, 2006 | No Conference - Thanksgiving Holiday |
| DEC 1, 2006 | Blandine Laferrere, M.D. Research Associate Obesity Research Center St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, NY "The use of a ghrelin analog in humans: Can it teach us something about ghrelin physiology?" |
| DEC 8, 2006 | Kevin Hall, Ph.D. Investigator Laboratory of Biological Modeling NIDDK/NIH Bethesda, MD "Computational modeling of human macronutrient metabolism and the regulation of body composition" |
| DEC 15, 2006 | Kathleen V. Axen, Ph.D. Professor Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences Brooklyn College of CUNY, Brooklyn, NY "Long-term effects of very low-carbohydrate, high-fat diets in dietary obese rats" |
| DEC 22, 2006 | Dan Galeriu, Ph.D. Life and Environmental Physics Dept. Horia Hulubei Nat. Inst. for Physics and Nuclear Engineering Bucharest-Magurele POB MG-6 Romania Body composition, metabolism and 3H, 14C transfer in humans and other mammals" |
| DEC 29, 2006 | NO CONFERENCE - Winter Holidays |