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Oct 30, 2009 10:00-11:00 AM 365 WBOB		Division of Epidemiology & Community Health Seminar:"Exercise Makes You Fat" Speaker: John Blundell, PhD Professor of Biopsychology, University of Leeds, UK Chair of PsychoBiology, Director of the Human Appetite Research Unit, Director of the Institute of Psychological Sciences
Sept 21, 2009 8 AM-5 PM Cowles Auditorium, H.H. Humphrey Center		Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives First Annual Symposium: Nationally and internationally renowned speakers will present state-of-the art science on four highly controversial topics related to the effects of food consumption on human health: food processing, consumption of organic foods, high fructose corn syrup, and antibiotic use in animals. The purpose of the symposium is to generate exciting discussions that may lead to consensus on the controversial topics and/or recommendations for research needed for their resolution. Registration: http://register.cce.umn.edu/Course.pl?sect_key=183183 Agenda: http://www.hfhl.umn.edu Sponsored by the University of Minnesota Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives Institute and co-sponsored by the Minnesota Obesity Center
May 19, 2009 3:30 PM 23 FScN Bldg		Have differences in physical activity driven the obesity epidemic? Professor John Speakman, Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences (IBES), University of Aberdeen
Spring 2009: Tuesdays		Energy Balance Research Group (EBRB): Informal Research Presentations/Discussions. This group meets every other Tuesday from 9:30-10:30 AM. Location: 310 West Bank Office Building (WBOB 310) unless otherwise indicated. • Jan 27: John Sirard: Social network analyses related to physical activity (and other health behaviors) in the Project EAT-III adolescent cohort. (WBOB 305) • Feb 10: John Sirard: Discussion of the accelerometer data from the TREC-IDEA and ECHO studies. (WBOB 305) • Feb 24: Andrea Arikawa and Beth Kaufman: Weight loss and biological parameters in breast cancer survivors. • Mar 10: Sara Veblen-Mortenson and Daheia Barr-Anderson: Overview and process and outcome evaluation results of ALA+Peers, a feasibility pilot study conducted in St. Paul schools with 6th graders during the 2006-07 school year. (WBOB 305) • Mar 19: Dan Graham: Environmental and psychosocial correlates of adolescent physical activity and body fat. OPC Research AssociateCandidate from the Department of Psychology & Social Behavior, University of CA-Irvine. (9:00 to 10:00, WBOB 364) • Mar 24: Melissa Nelson: Discussion regarding an online survey that will be implemented in a young adult college population. • Apr 07: Rachel Widome: Overview of weight-related issues in young adult veterans who have recently returned from Iran and Afghanistan. Description of a pilot intervention aimed at using peer social support for physical activity as a tobacco-use cessation tool in a young adult veteran population. (WBOB 305) • Apr 21: Robert Jeffery: Obesity Treatment and Prevention in the Health Care System • May 05: Stacey Ingraham: BMI—A Measure of Disease Risk Lost in Public Interpretation. Time to Re-Label and Soften the Blow
Spring 2009		NCI Webinar Series on Obesity-Related Policy Evaluation: This web-based seminar series aimed at increasing the skills of researchers and practitioners in policy evaluation effectiveness will be taught by Dr. Kathryn Newcomer, Co-director of the Midge Smith Center for Evaluation Effectiveness and Professor of Public Policy & Public Administration, George Washington University. Policies intended to reduce obesity prevalence by improving diet and/or increasing physical activity are increasingly being implemented at state and local levels. Rigorous evaluation of these “natural experiments” may be an effective means for the research community to inform policy on the issues of obesity, diet, and activity. Those interested in participating may join a mailing list to receive further information by sending an e-mail to: conferences@novaresearch.com. The four webinars will be held from 1-2 pm EST on the following Fridays: • Feb 27: The basics of design to evaluate policy interventions. • Apr 03: Pitfalls to research in real world settings. • May 01: Enhancing the usefulness of evidence to inform practice. • Jun 12: Communicating results effectively.
Mar 3, 2009 3:30-4:30 PM, 23 FScN		Factors influencing food choice and grocery shopping behavior of low-income families in Minnesota: Kristen Dammann (Wiig), Ph.D. Candidate, Nutrition (Advisor: Dr. Chery Smith, University of Minnesota). If you are unable to attend the seminar in person, please consider viewing the presentation live via UMConnect at https://umconnect.umn.edu/r83851908/.
Jan 27, 2009 1:30-3:00 PM 2-650 Moos T.		Who Pays for Obesity: Jay Bhattacharya, Associate Professor of Medicine, Stanford University, is the keynote speaker at a seminar, sponsored by the Division of Health Policy and Management. Dr. Bhattacharya's papers on this subject are available and electronic copies can be requested by e-mailing raasc001@umn.edu.
Fall 2008: Tuesdays		Energy Balance Research Group: Informal Research Presentations/Discussions This group meets every other Tuesday from 9:30-10:30 AM. Location: 310 West Bank Office Building (WBOB 310) • Sep 16: Nicole Larson: Review and discussion of the future EAT-III Adolescent Survey. • Sep 30: Open • Oct 14: Sott Shimotsu: Using Receipts to Measure the Neighborhood and Home Food Environment. • Oct 28: Robert Jeffery: Effectiveness of a Maintenance-Tailored Obesity Intervention • Nov 11: Irene Solbes Canales: (Faculty of Psychology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Negative Attitudes toward Overweight Peers among Children: A Study with Explicit and Implicit Measures in Primary School Children • Nov 25: Beth Lewis: "Physical Activity Interventions among Pregnant and PostPartum Women." • Dec 09: Maureen O'Dougherty: Identifying Patterns in Young Women's Physical Activity.
Dec 4, 2008, 9-11:00 AM HHH Center, Cowles Audtrm.		Obesity Prevention Efforts in the Netherlands: Mass Media Education, Worksite and School-Based Interventions. Johannes Brug, PhD, Director, EMGO Institute for Trans & Extramural Health & Medical Research and Professor of Epidemiology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Sr. Academic Associate, Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing & Behavioral Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.
De. 5, 2008 10-11:00 AM 364 WBOB		Web-Based Computer-Tailored Nutrition Education: Efficacious but Not Effective. Johannes Brug, PhD, Professor, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Sr. Academic Associate, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.
Recessed until Fall Semester 2008		Energy Balance Research Group: Informal Research Presentations/Discussions This group meets every other Tuesday from 10:00-11:00 AM. Location: West Bank Office Building, Room 310
April 22, 2008 7—9:00 PM		The Spring 2008 Tucker Center Distinguished Lecture: Developing Physically Active Girls: Challenges, Opportunities, and Solutions. Nicole LaVoi, Margaret Duncan, Barbara Ainsworth, and Diane Wiese-Bjornstal (authors of the Tucker Center 2007 Research Report)
April 16, 2008		David Laibson, Professor of Economics at Harvard and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research 2:00 pm, Cargill Bldg for Microbial & Plant Genetics, St. Paul Campus Temptation, Self-Control, and Public Policy The Third James P. Houck Lecture on Food and Consumer Policy sponsored by the Minnesota Lectures on Applied Economics and Policy
March 24, 2008		School of Nursing and the Obesity Prevention Center special presentation and open conversation with special guests—moderated by Martha Kubik 10:00-11:30 am Coffman Union Mississippi Room Measuring Childhood Obesity: Public Health Surveillance OR School-based Screening and Parent Notification? A local, state and international perspective.
Spring 2008: Tuesdays		Energy Balance Research Group—Informal Research Presentations/Discussions 10:00-11:00 am, WBOB 310 • Jan 15: Robert Jeffery - Increasing intervention variety to promote weight loss maintenance: An experimental trial. • Jan 29: Jennifer Linde -Weight gain prevention among community college students. • Feb 12: Steven Stovitz -The importance of childhood height in the assessment of pediatric obesity. • Feb 26: Jayne Fulkerson: Food quality in the home environment: Measurement and analysis. • Mar 11: Maureen Ayers Looby: ESHOP: Economics of Shopping from Home and Obesity Prevention. • Mar 25: Susie Nanney: Improving the School Food Environments • Apr 22: Beth Lewis: Exercise and postpartum depression.
Dec. 6, 2007		Robert Hornik, Wilbur Schramm Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania,Director of its Center of Excellence in Cancer Communication 4:15 pm, Murphy Hall Room 130 Communication and Obesity: Where to Expect Effects Co-sponsored by the School of Journalism Communication and the Institute for Advanced Study
Nov. 12, 2007		Jane Wardle, PhD, University College London 4-5pm (3:30pm reception), Mayo 3-125 Appetite and Adiposity: Re-building a Psychological Theory of Obesity OPC Visiting Scholars Special Seminar Series
Nov. 13, 2007		Andrew Steptoe, DSc, University College London 10-11am (9:30am reception), Mayo 3-125 Positive Well-Being, Biology and Health OPC Visiting Scholars Special Seminar Series
Fall 2007: Tuesdays		Obesity Research/Energy Balance Research Group— Informal Research Presentations/Discussions, 9:30-13:00am, WBOB 310 • Sep 11: Simone French - Portion size grant • Sep 25: John Sirard - Physical activity environmental assessment • Oct 09: Marco Yzer - Social psychological theories and health behavior change: relevance in the context of cultural factors such as poverty, education and access to basic resources • Oct 23: Mark Pereira and Andy Odegaard - Body mass index, lifestyle, and type 2 diabetes risk in The Singapore Chinese Health Study • Nov 6: Brian Southwell and Bob Jeffery - Circles research discussion: Brian and Bob will share the work the group is doing with international collaborative research on eating and physical activity behaviors • Nov 20: Mark Muller and Ken Meter - Agriculture policy and local food systems infrastructures • Dec 4: Nancy Sherwood - Healthy Homes/Healthy Kids: Primary-care based obesity prevention
Spring 2007: Tuesdays		Obesity Research/Energy Balance Research Group—Informal Research Presentations/Discussions, 9:00-10:00am, WBOB 310 • Jan 16: Bob Jeffery - Financial Incentives for Healthy Food Choices and Weight Loss • Jan 23: Kinesiology - Exercise and Bone Health • Jan 30: Al Levine - Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives • Feb 06: Simone French - Home Food Environment: Receipts to Measure Away and Home Food Purchases • Feb 20: Leslie Lytle - TAAG Results • Feb 27: Kinesiology • Mar 06: Andrea Arikawa - TREC Study • Mar 13: Colleen Flattum & Sarah Friend - New Moves • Mar 20: Jay Desai - Dietary Behaviors in Minnesota: Results from the 2006 Minnesota BRFSS • Mar 27: No Meeting • Apr 03: Sara Veblen-Mortenson - PALA + Peers • Apr 10: Carrie Heitzler - VERB Campaign • Apr 17: Jeff Schwimmer - Pediatric Energy Imbalance: Canary in a Hepatocyte • Apr 24: Rachel Wetzseon - Optimizing Bone Strength and Body Composition in Children • May 01: No Meeting • May 08: Scott Crow - Relationship between perfectionism, eating disorders and athletes (PMID 17093375).
May 24, 2007		University of Minnesota Cancer Center, Population Sciences Retreat Landscape Arboretum, 8:30am-4:00pm Jon Samet, MD, Johns Hopkins, "Smoking and Cancer: Anything New Since 1950?" John Potter, MD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington, "Obesity: A Link in a Causal Chain." Phil James, MD, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, "Addressing the Drivers of the Obesity/Cancer Global Epidemics"
April 17, 2007		Jeff Schwimmer, MD, UCSD 3:35-5:30 pm, Mayo 3-125 Burrowing for Common Ground: A Golden Give and Take on Pediatric Obesity Treatment PubH 6000: Course Lecture Open to the Public
February 8, 2007		Leonard Epstein, State University of New York at Buffalo Behavioral Choice Theory and Pediatric Obesity 10:15-11:15am, Moos 1-450 OPC Visiting Scholars Special Seminar Series
Nov. 26, 2006		The Obesity Research Group changed its name to the Energy Balance Research Group.
Nov. 10, 2006		Division of Epidemiology and Community Health Seminar 10:00-11:00am, WBOB 364 Mary Story, "Food Marketing to Children and Youth"
Nov. 2, 2006		Brian Wansink, Cornell University 9:00-11:00am, MOOS 1-450 "Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think" Plus his Obesity Prevention Center-sponsored talk at: 3:30-4:30pm, WBOB 142 "Do Low-Fat Labels Make Us Fat?"
Fall 2006: Tuesdays		Obesity Research Group—Informal Research, 12:00 - 1:00pm, WBOB 364 • Sept 19: Robert Jeffery - Look Ahead • Sept 26: Sarah Rydell - McLabel (McDonald's Package Labeling) • Oct 3: Lisa Harnack - Fast Food Meals Study • Oct 10: Jayne Fulkerson - Family Meals Study • Oct 17: John Sirard - TREC Home Inventory Tool/Physical Activity Study • Oct 24: Leslie Lytle – TREC • Oct 31: Brian Noi & Mark Muller - Mini-Farmers Markets • Nov 7 : Lisa Harnack - Fast Food Labeling • Nov 14: Scott Shimotsu - Route H PA • Nov 21: Ben Senauer - Japan US PA data • Nov 28: Gretchen Taylor - New Horizons • Dec 5: Melissa Nelson – U of M food/catering RFP development
Sept. 25, 2006		MN Obesity Center - Center Wide Retreat ( 9am-2:30pm) Free, but registration is encouraged Agenda and Registration Information
Sept. 22, 2006		Division of Epidemiology and Community Health Seminar 10:00-11:00am, WBOB 364 Mark Pereira, "Effects of Fast Food on Obesity and Chronic Disease Risk: Do We Need Randomized Trials?"
Sept. 11, 2006 2005 Seminar Series		Promoting Healthy Lifestyles to Reduce the Risk of Cancer Informational Flier, Agenda The 2005 seminar series, Health Behaviors: Molecules to Policy was sponsored by the Cancer Center, Obesity Prevention Center, and the Minnesota Obesity Center. The goal of the series was to discuss research issues that cross-cut energy balance related health behaviors, primarily smoking, eating, alcohol intake and physical activity. Seminars were coordinated by Dorothy Hatsukami, Ph.D. (hatsu001@umn.edu) and Simone French, Ph.D. (french@epi.umn.edu).

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