Obesity and Health

2009

27th to 28th April 2009

Lakeside Conference Centre
Aston University, Birmingham

Fifth National
Conference on
Obesity and Health


Detailed Programme

 

27th April 2009

08.00 Registration and Coffee
09.15 Welcome
  Session 1 -:  Obesity and Government
09.15 O1   Obesity and Government – Strategies to Prevent Obesity. M M Donma, Ministry of Health, Istanbul, Turkey
09.35 O2   Government Sponsored Programmes. Jeremy Wyatt Managing Director, Hall Aitken, Glasgow
09.55 Break
  Session 2 -:  Understanding Aspects and Measuring Weight Gain
10.15 O3  What is really causing the Childhood Obesity Epidemic? What kids say. Robert Pretlow MD, Director, Weight2Rock, Seattle, USA
11.00 O4  Gut Mircoflora and Obesity.  Arjan Narbad Institute of Food Research, Norwich Hills.
11.20 FP1  Trace Elements and Obesity. M M Donma, Ministry of Health, Istanbul, Turkey
11.30 FP2   Association Between Birth Weight, Weight Gain During Infancy and Body Mass Index among Adolescents in Urban Sri Lanka. Chaytitri Senanayake, University of Colomdo.
11.40 O5  Gauging Obesity. David McCarthy, Reader in Nutrition,  Institute for Health Research and Policy, London
12.00 FP3  Defining Weight Management Success: quantity or quality. Nicola Brown Dept of Sports and Exercise Science, University of Portsmouth
12.15 – 13.15 Lunch, Exhibition and Information Exchange
  Session 3 – Influencing  Energy Intake
13.15 O6 Regulatory-Signal-Based-Eating.  Alan Tobutt, Sports Science, Hertfordshire
13.35 O7 Eating Behaviours in The Obese and Mechanisms That May Underlie Them.  Dr Jason C.G. Halford, Reader in Appetite and Obesity, Director of the Kissileff  Human Ingestive Behaviour Laboratory
13.55 O8  New Strategies in Surgery. Guy Slater, Consultant Upper GI and Bariatric Surgeon, Chichester
  Session 4 – Interventions 1 Skills and Opportunities for Professionals
14.15 O9 Designing a City Wide Intervention: a Case History - The Introduction. Claire Beynon, Newport, South Wales
14.35 O10 Primary Care: the absent partners in obesity prevention: result of Ambling Project. Rachel Pryke, Winyates Health Centre, Redditch
14.55 Break
  Interventions and Skills Seminar Session 1
15.15 – 16.30 S1 Primary Care: Goal Setting in Obesity Care. Rachel Pryke, Winyates Health Centre, Redditch 15.15 – 16.00 FP 4
Vitality – Your Local Health and Wellbeing Service – Our Recipe For Success. McNeir Community Health Improvement Practitioner, Thurrock Community Hospital

FP5  Learning from the Development of National Networks in Nutrition and Physical Activity. Beth Preece, Nutrition Network for Wales Co-ordinator, Cardiff.
 
  Change over
16.30 – 17.45 S2 Designing a City Wide InterventionClaire Beynon, Newport, South Wales S3 Psycho–Social Interventions Stepped Care Approach (QOF). Kath Sharman, Child Therapist and Obesity Counsellor and Director of SHINE
18.00 Drinks RECEPTION and Poster Viewing
             

28th April 2009

  Session 5 Interventions 2. Research,  Skills and Opportunities for Professionals
08.30 O11 Opportunities for Research into Managing Obesity. Phil Taverner Ass. Dir Public Health Research Programme, Southampton  
08.50 O12 The Challenge of Influencing Human Behaviour – going beyond communication to a wider ‘marketing’ approach: National Social Marketing Centre. Clive Blair- Stevens, London   
09.10 O13 Self Care Internet Interventions for Weight Management.  Carol Stock Nurse Practitioner and Internet Healthcare Attorney and Robert A Pretlow MD, Seattle, USA
09.30 O14 Going for Gold -Levers and Lessons: a Case History.  Claire Beynon, Project Manager, Newport Local Health Board
09.50 Break
  Communication Skills Seminar Session 2
10.10 – 10.40 S4 The Challenge of Influencing Human Behaviour – going beyond communication to a wider ‘marketing’ approach: National Social Marketing Centre   FP7  Health Conversation Skill Development for Children Centre Staff, Jennifer Davis, Public Health Nutritionist/Fit4Life (Obesity) Lead, Southampton

FP8  What’s in a Word? How response to weight status terminology affects peoples motivation to loose weight. Cindy Gray, Alliance for Self Care Research, University of Stirling
  Session 6 Interventions 3. Developing Services and Outreach
10.45 O15 USA Extension Services – Walk Georgia, Lori Franklin, CEA, Polk County Extension, Family and Consumer Science
11.00 O16 USA Extension Services – Diabetes Education and Self Management – a template for weight management. Joann Milam, CEA, Washington County Extension, Family and Consumer Science
11.15 O17 Developing Services for Childhood Obesity Programmes, Researcher Childhood Obesity,  Helen Pittson Telford PCT
    Seminar Session 3 - Project
11.10 – 12.10 S5 Self Care Internet Interventions for Weight Management.  Carol Stock Nurse Practitioner and Internet Healthcare Attorney S6 Going for Gold – Engaging Various Sectors: a Case History Claire Beynon, Project Manager, Newport Local Health Board
12.10 Lunch
  Seminar Session 4. Developing Services and Outreach
13.00 S7 Developing Services for Childhood Obesity Programmes. Helen Pittson Telford PCT S8 USA Extension Services. Lori Franklin, Polk County Extension Agent and Joann Milam CEA Family and Consumer Science
  Session 7 – Social Interventions – Private, Corporate and Community
14.00 FP 9 Healthy Eating and Lifestyle in Pregnancy Study (HELP) a partnership with Slimming World to support obese women. Jacquie Lavin, Nutritionist and Health Partnerships Manager
14.15 FP10 A Model of a Worksite Based Weight Loss Programme – the London Metropolitan Weight Loss Programme. David McCarthy London Metropolitan University
14.30 FP11 Getting Fit for Business. Breckon Jones, Employee Health and Vitality Manager/Fit Business Project Lead, Unilever UK
14.45 O16 Obesity and the Multi Ethnic City. Peymane Abad, Senior Lecturer, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham
15.30 Close