Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Video |
January 8 |
Randy Seeley, PhD, Professor, Director, UC/CCHMC Center of Excellence in Obesity and Diabetes, University of Cincinnati, Reading, OH |
"Bariatric Surgery: It’s not what you think it is " |
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January 15 |
Michael Pratt, PhD, Director, Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, Chief of Physical Activity and Health Branch, CDC, Atlanta, GA |
"The Global Public Health Challenge of Physical Activity" |
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January 22 |
Danielle Bouchard, PhD, Assistant Professor, Health, Leisure and Human Performance Research Institute, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
"Sarcopenia and Dynapenia: Are There Different Implications for Obese Older Adults?" |
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January 29 |
Jayson Lusk, PhD, Professor and Willard Sparks Endowed Chair, Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK |
"The Economics and Politics of Obesity" |
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February 5 |
Dr. David Allison, Distinguished Professor, Associate Dean for Science, Director, Office of Energetics, Director, Nutrition Obesity Research Center, UAB |
"Myths, Presumptions, and Facts About Obesity" |
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February 12 |
Anthony Sclafani, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, Brooklyn College of CUNY, Brooklyn, NY |
"Gut-Brain Nutrient Signaling: Appetition vs. Satiation" |
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February 19 |
Miriam Vos, MD, MSPH, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Research Program Director, Child Wellness, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA |
"From Sugar to Fat: Role of Fructose in Fatty Live Disease" |
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February 26 |
Douglas Paddon-Jones, PhD, Professor, Department of Nutrition and Metabolism, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX |
"Maintaining Muscle Mass in Older Adults Nutrition and Exercise Strategies" |
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March 5 |
John Higginbotham, PhD, MPH, Associate Dean for Research and health Policy, Health Policy, The University of Alabama School of Medicine, Tuscaloosa, AL |
"Using New Interventions Together to Eliminate Disparities" |
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March 12 |
Timothy Griffin, PhD, Assistant Member, Free Radical Biology and Aging Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK |
"Obesity and Osteoarthritis: Too much joint loading or not enough?" |
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March 19 |
David A. Levitsky, PhD, Professor of Psychology/Nutrition Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |
"The Weigh to Control Body Weight: The Only Way" |
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March 26 |
Stephen Woods, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH |
"Peptides, Food Iintake and Body Weight: Problems of Interpretation" |
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April 2 |
Richard J. Bloomer, Chair, Department of Health and Sport Sciences, Director, Cardiorespiratory/Metabolic Laboratory, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN |
"Oxidative Stress Induced via Exercise and Feeding: Implications for Human Health" |
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* April 2 |
Catherine Woteki, PhD, Under Secretary for United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Research, Education, and Economics (REE) mission area, Department's Chief Scientist. |
"Public Health and Food Security: The Nutrition Nexus" |
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April 9 |
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"Tasting menu from New NORC Members" |
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Peggy Biga, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, UAB |
"Fish as model organisms: Comparative analyses of different growth potentials" |
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Larrell L. Wilkinson, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Human Studies, UAB |
"Health Disparities: Examining Individual, Contextual, & Behavioral Factors that Shape Health Outcomes" |
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Danielle Powell, MD, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, UAB |
"Weight Gain after Spinal Cord Injury" |
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April 16 |
Lora Burke, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, Professor, Health and Community Systems, School of Nursing, University of Pittsburg, Pittsburg, PA |
"Integrating mHealth in a Program of Behavior Change Research" |
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April 30 |
Steven R. Smith, MD, Scientific Director and Professor of the Translational research Institute for Metabolism and Diabetes, Florida Hospital, Orlando, FL |
"Unraveling the Molecular Origins of Body Fat Distribution" |
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May 7 |
Brian Parks, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Los Angeles, CA |
"A Systems Genetics Aapproach to Study Obesity, Dietary Interactions, and the Microbiome" |
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May 14 |
W. Timothy Garvey, MD, Professor/Chairman, Department of Nutrition Sciences Chair Office, UAB |
"New Tools for Weight Loss Therapy: A Complications-Centric Model for Obesity Management and Cardiometabolic Disease Staging" |
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May 21 |
Megan Workman, PhD, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM |
"Developmental Influences on Metabolism and Body Composition" |
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June 12 |
Hiroshi Nishiura, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Global Health Policy, And Keisuke Ejima, PhD Candidate, Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan |
"Dependent Happening in Epidemiology" |
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August 7 |
William Anderson, PhD, Department of Sociology, UAB |
"A Constructal Systemic Approach to the Sociological Study of Health and Illness." |
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* August 13 |
Steven B Heymsfield, MD, Chair in Nutrition at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center of the Louisiana State University System |
"How Does Human Energy Metabolism Relate to Body Size?" |
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* August 13 |
Christine L. Pelkman, PhD, Senior Nutrition Scientist and Clinical Research Manager, Ingredion Incorported, Nutrition R&D, Bridgewater, NJ |
"Resistant Starch-Physiological Benefits of a Unique Dietary Fiber" |
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August 15 |
Katherine A. Sauder, Predoctoral Fellow, Pistachio Diabetes Study Coordinator, Department Biobehavioral Health, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA |
"The Relationship Between Diet and Vascular Health" |
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September 3 |
Julian Alston, PhD, Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Director, Robert Mondavi Institute Center for Wine Economics, University of California, Davis, CA |
"Farm and Food Policy and Obesity" |
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September 10 |
Cara Ebbeling, PhD, Assistant Professor, Children’s Hospital Boston, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology, Harvard University, Boston, MA |
"Dietary Interventions for Obesity: Is Macronutrient Composition Important" |
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September 17 |
Rick Weiss, President, Founder & Chief Wellness Engineer, Viocare, Inc., Princeton, NJ |
"Recent Advances in Personalized Nutrition Technology" |
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September 24 |
Terry W. Snell, PhD, Professor and Chair, Elizabeth Smithgall Watts Chair, in Animal Behavior and Conservation, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA |
"Searching for Dietary Supplements Capable of Life Extension" |
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October 1 |
Paul Rozin, PhD, Professor, Department Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
"Eating and the Environment" |
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October 8 |
Edward Ip, PhD, Professor, Department of Biostatistical Sciences and Department of Social Sciences & Health Policy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC |
"Multichain Hidden Markov Models for Studying Psychological and Behavioral Profiles" |
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October 15 |
Jake Lusis, PhD, Professor, Departments of Medicine, Cardiology, Human Genetics, Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, The Lusis Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles, CA |
"A Systems genetics Approach to Complex Cardio-Metabolic Traits" |
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October 22 |
Michael O. Thorner, PhD, M.B.B.S., Professor, Endocrinology and Metabolism Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA |
"Ghrelin Regulation and Its Implications for Its Physiological Role" |
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October 29 |
Donald K. Ingram, PhD, Professor, Nutritional Neuroscience and Aging Laboratory Director, Animal Metabolism and Behavior Core, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA |
"Good Stress: Hormesis as a Mechanism Underlying Health Benefits of Botanicals and Calorie Restriction" |
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October 30 |
TaShauna U. Goldsby, PhD, Clinical Research Scientist, Center for Metabolic Health and The Hospital of Central Connecticut, New Britain, CT. |
"Designing Real-World Behavioral Change Interventions for Obesity." |
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November 5 |
Paul A.S. Breslin, PhD, Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University, Philadelphia, PA |
"Anticipatory Digestive Responses to Foods" |
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November 19 |
Antonio Vidal-Puig, MD, PhD, FRCP, Professor Medicine Nutrition and Metabolism, Scientific Director Cambridge Phenomics Centre, Associate Faculty Sanger Institute, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK |
"BAT as a Vacuum Cleaner" |
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November 26 |
Christopher Kuzawa, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL |
"Epigenetic, Developmental and Intergenerational Influences on US Cardiovascular Health Disparities" |
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December 3 |
Philipp Gut, MD, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stainier Lab, Biochemistry and Biophysics Department, University of California, San Francisco, CA |
"A Whole-Organism Approach to Study Metabolic Networks" |
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December 10 |
Mark Friedman, PhD, Member and Director of Technology Transfer, Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA |
"Why Getting Fat Makes You Overeat" |
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December 17 |
Lance Baumgard, PhD, Associate Professor, Norman Jacobson Endowed Professor, Iowa State University, Ames, IA |
"Heat Stress and Post-Absorptive Metabolic Perturbations: Agricultural Models" |
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December 18 |
Stephen J. Carter, Exercise Science at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL |
"The Influence of Aspirin on Body Temperature Regulation in Humans" |
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