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program

Dates

September 10th-12th.

Location

Boston, Massachusetts

Symposium Highlights

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A new home. Lectures will be presented in the state-of-the-art Behrakis Auditorium at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy on Tuft's Health Sciences campus.

You may also download the program from our 2009 Symposium Brochure (pdf)

11.5 credits for Continuing Education are available.
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September 10

Tours of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Center on Aging at Tufts University

The mission of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University (HNRCA) is to explore the relationship between nutrition, aging and health by determining the nutrient requirements that are necessary to promote health and well-being for older adults and examining the degenerative conditions associated with aging.

Laboratory tours are limited to 15 persons per hour and are available on a first-come-first-served basis to registered attendees to the Symposium. There is no added fee for this tour.

Hourly tours beginning at 1:00 PM through 3:00 PM

September 11

Nutrition Labeling and Scoring 2.0: What have we learned? What do we need to know?

Nutrition labeling and scoring is appearing on front-of-pack and on store shelves. Learn what each program has to offer, hear early results of consumer response and look toward the future of labeling and scoring in these informative presentations and the lively panel discussion that will follow.

8:30 am	David L. Katz, MD, Chief Science Officer, NuVal Power in Numbers: How the breadth and depth of the NuVal system can position it to be the universal standard for all nutritional guidance systems. (abstract)
9:00 am	Jeffrey Blumberg, PhD, Tufts University The Guiding Stars Program: Evaluating and Extending Nutrition Profiling (abstract)
9:30 am	Victor Fulgoni, PhD Nutrition Impact, LLC Nutrient Rich Foods Index and Relationship to Better Nutrition and Health Status (abstract)
10:00 am	Refreshment Break
10:20 am	Joanne Lupton, PhD, Texas A&M University Update on the Smart Choices Program: Science behind it and comparison to other programs (abstract)
10:50 am	Barbara Schneeman, PhD, Director of the Office of Nutrition, Labeling and Dietary Supplements in the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition at the Food and Drug Administration FDA Perspective on Labeling and Scoring
11:20 am	Panel Discussion, moderated by Eileen Kennedy, DSc, RD

Lunch Recess

Keynote Address

1:00 pm

John Auerbach, MBA, Commissioner, Department of Public Health, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Addressing Overweight and Obesity Through Policy (abstract)

Theme: Current Research and Knowledge in Pediatric Obesity

1:40 pm	Matthew Gillman, MD, SM, Director, Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Ambulatory Care & Prevention, Harvard Medical School Infant feeding, infant weight gain, and risk of obesity (abstract)
2:10 pm	Leann Birch, PhD, Pennsylvania State University Predictors and Consequence of Eating Behavior (abstract)
2:40 pm	Refreshment Break
3:00 pm	Elizabeth Goodman, MD, Director, Child & Adolescent Obesity Program, Floating Hospital for Children, Tufts Medical Center Social Hierarchy and Stress Associated with Adolescent Obesity (abstract)
3:30 pm	William Dietz, MD, PhD, Director of the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity Center for Disease Control Trends in Childhood Obesity: What Can We Do to Reverse the Epidemic? (abstract)
4:00 pm	Panel Discussion

September 12

Future Advances in Pediatric Obesity

Theme 1: Advances in Basic Research

8:30 am	Hans-Rudolf Berthoud, PhD, George H. Bray Professor of Neuroscience, Pennington Biomedical Research Center Control of Appetite: Eating for pleasure or calories? (abstract)
9:00 am	Andrew Greenberg, MD, Director, Obesity and Metabolism Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA HNRCA at Tufts University New Insights into Obesity and its Complications (abstract)

Theme 2: New Intervention Directions

9:30 am

Christina Economos, PhD, Associate Director, John Hancock Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition, New Balance Chair in Childhood Nutrition, Tufts University
Action-Oriented Intervention Research

10:00 am

Ian Lockwood, PE, Principal and Senior Transportation Planner, Glatting Jackson
Health and Transportation (abstract)

10:30 am

Refreshment Break

11:00 am

Facilitated Discussions

Theme 1
Advances in Basic Research
Berthoud & Greenberg

Theme 2
New Intervention Directions
Economos & Lockwood

Lunch Recess

Hot Topics: A Collection of Compelling Presentations & Discussion

1:00 pm	Michael Holick, MD, PhD, Director, General Clinical Research Center Shining Light on its Global Health Benefits (abstract)
1:30 pm	Michael Jacobson, PhD, Executive Director & Co-Founder, Center for Science in the Public Interest Reducing & Regulating Dietary Sodium (abstract)
2:00 pm	Cathy Kapica, PhD, RD, LD, FACN, CFCS, Vice President/Director, Ketchum Global Health & Wellness Effective nutrition communication: can we bridge the gap between nutrition science and nutrition that sells? (abstract)
2:30 pm	Miriam E. Nelson, PhD, Director, John Hancock Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans (abstract)