04/18/05 - Obesity in Adolescent Girls

Monday, April 18, 2005  8:30 am - 1:30 pm

Seventh Annual Center-wide Retreat for the MN Obesity Center

Co-sponsored by:

• The Minnesota Obesity Center

• Deborah E. Powell Center for Women's Health

University of Minnesota
McNamara Alumni Center, Ski-U-Mah Room
200 Oak Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Program:

8:30 am - Registration/Coffee

8:50 am - Opening Remarks

9:00 am - Lisa M. Klesges, Ph.D. , Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic.  Obesity Prevention with African-American Pre-Adolescent Girls

10:00 am - Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, Ph.D., Division of Epidemiology, UMN. Preventing Obesity in Adolescent Girls: Considering the Broad Spectrum of Weight Related Problems

10:40 am - Sarah Jane Schwarzenberg, M.D., Director, Pediatric Early Risk Reduction Clinic, UMN.  Pediatric Obesity: Assessment and Management

11:20 am - Panel Discussion

12:00 - 1:30 pm - Poster Session

• For more information contact Kate Welch at cwelch@umn.edu