September 2006 - December 2006
NEW YORK OBESITY RESEARCH CENTER
FRIDAY MORNING ENDOCRINE-METABOLIC
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

11:30 am, Sebrell Library, 10th Floor
Joseph R. Vasselli, Ph.D., Organizer
(212) 523-4164    jrv1@columbia.edu

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



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