The inaugural Obesity Initiative Research Symposium is on tap for today at UGA. University graduate students are presenting information on obesity-related research topics in a day-long session that starts at 9 o'clock this morning in the Richard Russell Library.
From the UGA master calendar…
The inaugural Obesity Initiative Research Symposium will begin with oral presentations from UGA graduate students on obesity-related research topics. This will be followed by lunch and poster presentations by UGA students. The afternoon will feature our four keynote speakers:
Alyssa Hasty, professor of molecular physiology and biophysics and associate dean for faculty development of the basic sciences, School of Medicine at Vanderbilt University. Hasty, who developed one of the first mouse models to study obesity-related hyperlipidemia and atherosclerosis, also serves as a research health scientist with the Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Corby Martin, director of the Ingestive Behavior Laboratory at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La. Martin has extensive experience conducting interventions to improve food intake, exercise and body weight. His research interests include the application of technology to change people’s behavior and improve their health through mobile health interventions.
Jeni Burnette, associate professor of psychology at North Carolina State University. Burnette’s research focuses on how mindsets matter for dieting self-regulation and weight-loss goal achievement.
Rita Hamad, social epidemiologist and family physician in the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and the department of family and community medicine at the University of California-San Francisco. Hamad’s research focuses on the pathways linking poverty and education with health disparities across the lifespan.