InCHIP Lecture Series, Spring 2016
“Improving Childhood Obesity Management – Learning and Applying Best Practices of Positive Outliers”
Elsie M. Taveras, MD, MPH, Mass General Hospital for Children and Harvard Medical School
12:30 - 1:30pm
Co-Sponsors:
UConn Center for Public Health and Health Policy
UConn College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
UConn Department of Communication
UConn Department of Human Development and Family Studies
UConn Marketing Department, UConn School of Business
UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity
UConn Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and the Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace
UConn School of Business
UConn School of Medicine, UConn Health
UConn Department of Nutritional Sciences
UConn Department of Statistics
Location
Video Conference Room 204, 2nd floor
J. Ray Ryan Building, 2006 Hillside Road
University of Connecticut, Storrs Campus
For directions and maps, see http://www.chip.uconn.edu/about/directions-to-chip/.
Accessibility: elevator available in building lobby on ground floor.
Web Stream
You can view this talk streamed live during the lecture – or archived after the lecture – here.
About the Speaker
Elsie M. Taveras, MD, MPH is Chief of the Division of General Academic Pediatrics and Director of Pediatric Population Health Management at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). She is also an Associate Professor of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Taveras' main focus of research is understanding determinants of obesity and developing interventions across the lifecourse to prevent obesity, especially in underserved populations. Dr. Taveras' publications have examined diet, activity, sleep, and weight determinants in later childhood, and early life origins of obesity in young children. Her work spans the spectrum of observational studies - to identify and quantify risk factors - and intervention work to modify these risk factors for health promotion and chronic disease prevention. She has published over 100 research studies examining early life origins of obesity and interventions in home, clinical, and community settings to prevent and manage obesity among mothers and children.
More information available at: http://www.chip.uconn.edu/lecture-series/spring-2016-schedule/
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For more information, contact: InCHIP Lecture Series at lectureseries@chip.uconn.edu