Description
Categories: Food Assistance and Nutrition, Obesity, Policy Roundtable, Women, Children and Adolescents
Publication date: February 13, 2012
This Altarum Institute Roundtable Report (in PDF) provides and in-depth summary of the November 7, 2011 Altarum Institute Health Policy Forum Roundtable titled "Learning How Pediatric BMI Surveillance Can Lead to Approaches to Combating Childhood Obesity." The event was cosponsored by Emory University Department of Pediatrics and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. The discussion audience included those in nutrition, epidemiology, behavioral health, health policy, health informatics, and pediatrics. Speakers included:
- Brook Belay, MD, MPH, Senior Service Fellow, Obesity Prevention and Control Branch, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Christopher Bolling, MD, Program Chairman, American Academy of Pediatrics Provisional Section on Obesity
- Alyson B. Goodman, MD, MPH, Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity & Obesity, CDC
- Trina Histon, PhD, Senior Manager-Clinical Process Improvement Director, Weight Management Initiative, Kaiser Permanente Care Management Institute
- Therese Hoyle, Consultant, Public Health Informatics Institute, Michigan Department of Community Health
- Akaki Lekiachvili, MD, MBA, Informatics Science Section Lead, Office of Informatics and Information Resources Management, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Gary Urquhart, Chief, Immunization Information Systems Support Branch, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Stephanie M. Walsh, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
You can also watch the webcast of this Roundtable.
Files
| File | File type | File size |
| AltarumRoundtable Proceedings Pediatric BMINov2011_FINAL0212.pdf | Adobe PDF | 2 MB |