Report from 2008 to 2010Please find a collation of meeting reports from 2008 to February 2010 Yorkshire and The Humber: 5 Meetings – Dr Matt Capehorn 1st Meeting, 11 March 2008 ‘Obesity Specialist Networking’ Speakers Carol Weir, Public Health Obesity Specialist Maria McQuigg, Counterweight Study Prof Hugh Jones, specialist obesity centre in primary care Peter Sedman, secondary care intervention Workshops
Sponsors: Counterweight, Roche and LighterLife ============================================================= 2nd Meeting, 1 July 2008 ‘Children and Families’ Speakers Prof Paul Gately, Leeds Met Uni Paul Sacher, MEND Programme Kath Sharman, SHINE Clare Wyke, WATCH IT Audrey Croft, nutrition and lifestyle advice in the community Karon Mayor, rationale for bariatric services for South Yorkshire Sponsors: Roche, Abbott, sanofi-aventis, LighterLife, Slimming World and Meat and Health ========================================================== 3rd Meeting, 13 January 2009 “Gender Specific Aspects of Obesity and New Ways of Managing Obesity” Speakers: Jane DeVille-Almond, targeting men in weight management programmes Prof Hugh Jones, the role of testosterone as an independent risk factor for obesity and cardio metabolic risk Dr S Rutter, PCOS diagnosis and management Yvonne Jeanes, dietary aspects in the management of PCOS Workshop Discuss proposals to change service rationale Sponsors: Abbott and LighterLife, Vita Clinics ======================================== 4th Meeting, 18 June 2009 ‘Examples of weight management practice’ Speakers Dr Matt Capehorn, NOF news Jonathon Aldred, Villa Vitality Winton Rossiter, financial incentive programmes Colette Boyden & Clair Liversidge, ‘Fat Fighters’ Chris Wathen & Ian Smales, Weight Management Wakefield PCT Sponsors LighterLife, Abbott, MEND =========================================================== 5th Meeting, 18 February 2010 ‘Eating Disorders and Their Role in Obesity and Further Examples of Weight Management Practice’ Speakers Dr Olga Kapellerova, classification & management of eating disorders in child and adult Karen Rowe, emotional eating and food & mood Clare Lockwood, South Yorkshire Eating Disorders Association Maggie Young, eating disorders Rory O’Conor, measuring childhood BMI centiles the easy way Karen Thompson, working as a Weight Management Specialist Dietitian in Public Health Margaret Lake, weight management in practice Workshop/debate Is obesity an eating disorder Sponsors LighterLife and MEND Number of members that have attended: 245 We are pleased to annouce that Prof Paul Gately is the new Regional Chair |
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