Report from 2008-2010
West Midlands: 4 Meetings - Dr Andrew Hartland
1st Meeting, 4 June 2008
‘Obesity Specialist Networking’
Speakers
David Elliott, Department of Health West Midlands
Suzanne Gardner, Regional Physical Activity Co-ordinator, West Midlands
Martin Turner, Director of Communications, Walsall PCT
Linda Hindle Consultant Dietician, Birmingham East and North PCT
Dr Terry Maguire, Pharmacist
Workshop
- How do we engage high risk groups
- Men
- Teenagers
- South Asians
- Different approaches – Brainstorming session looking for novel ideas, approaches and schemes
- What is the role of Commercial Weight loss companies?
=================================================
2nd Meeting, 12 November 2008
‘From Birth to Adolescence’
Speakers
Tam Fry, Child Growth Foundation
Shahrad Taheiri, connection between sleep and obesity
Caroline Mansell, West Midlands developments to support breastfeeding
Jo Kirby, National Data Collection Project
Prof Wilkins, Earlybird Project
Paul Sacher, MEND Programme
===============================================
3rd Meeting, 21 April 2009
‘Approaching the Problem of Adult Obesity’
Speakers
David Elliott, Change 4 Life
Dr David Kendrick, psychology in weight management
Dr J Shakher, weight loss Pharmacotherapy
Dr Andrew Hartland, bariatric surgery
==========================================================
4th Meeting, 21 April 2010
Speakers
Georgia Windrass, dietary advice to bariatric surgery patients, pre and post op
Allergan Sponsored Symposium:
Dr Shahrad Taheri, Physicians role in and perspectives on bariatric medicine
Mr Paul Super, what is bariatric surgery; an introduction
Ana Elshaw, The MDT in bariatrics; the wider team is critical
Dr John Chapman, the primary care experience of bariatric surgery
Dr Jenny Poulter and Susi Gill, the NHS Working with the Private Sector
Jane DeVille-Almond, obesity management in Primary Care- Can it work?
Sponsors
Allergan and LighterLife
Number of members that have attended: 315