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Obesity Management in Primary Care To Be Major Focus at 14th Annual Congress on Women's Health

Posted on: Tuesday, 11 April 2006, 09:01 CDT

Five leading experts will be featured in a special half-day symposium on state-of-the-art obesity management in women at the 14th Annual Congress on Women's Health, June 3-6, 2006, Hilton Head, SC at the Hilton Head Marriott Beach & Golf Resort. The presentations will focus on clinical assessment, pharmacotherapy, lifestyle intervention, and bariatric surgery, in collaboration with NAASO: The Obesity Society. The special session will be held on Tuesday, June 6. The complete program is available online at www.bioconferences.com/wh.

Topics will include Diabetes and the Cardio-Metabolic Syndrome, Samuel Klein, M.D., Washington University, St. Louis; Clinical Assessment of the Overweight/Obese Woman, Robert F. Kushner, M.D., Northwestern University; Weight Management Challenges in Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Menopause, Donna Ryan, M.D., Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA; Diet, Pharmacotherapy, and Lifestyle Interventions, Thomas A. Wadden, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania; and What Primary Care Providers Need to Know About Their Bariatric Surgical Patients, Walter J. Pories, M.D., FACS, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. A special breakfast symposium supported by GlaxoSmithKline on talking with your patients on nutrition and exercise with Anne Wolf, R.D., M.S., University of Virginia will precede the other talks. The morning will conclude with a comprehensive panel discussion.

The Congress provides practical, clinical information on cutting-edge therapeutic protocols, novel diagnostic procedures, and innovative research advances that impact on patient care to physicians, nurses, and policymakers. Conference Chair Susan Kornstein, M.D., Executive Director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Institute for Women's Health, a DHHS National Center of Excellence, Richmond, Virginia and Co-Chairs Gail Stuart, Ph.D., APRN, BC, FAAN, Dean, College of Nursing, Medical College of South Carolina, Charleston and JudyAnn Bigby, M.D., Harvard Medical School, have convened an outstanding faculty and an array of informative sessions that will focus on hot topics in cardiology, menopause, diagnostics and therapeutics, lifestyle medicine, integrative medicine, and common clinical conditions.

The Congress is sponsored by University of South Florida College of Medicine and Journal of Women's Health, in partnership with the American Heart Association's Go Red for Women. Collaborating Organizations include American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association, American Chronic Pain Association, American Heart Association, American Menopause Foundation, Anxiety Disorders Association of America, Arthritis Foundation, NAASO: The Obesity Society, National Stroke Association, National Women's Health Resource Center, and WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease

Corporate supporters include GlaxoSmithKline, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, Procter & Gamble, Procter & Gamble Feminine Care, Sanofi Aventis, Takeda Pharmaceuticals America, Inc., Teva Neuroscience, and Wyeth.

The Congress offers 18 category 1 hours of Continuing Medical Education, 21.5 hours of Continuing Nursing Education credits, 18 ADA credits, 18 CE credits for psychologists, and 21.5 hours of Continuing Pharmacy Education sponsored by the University of South Florida.

For further information about the Congress and the Program, visit our website at www.bioconferences.com/wh, call (914)740-2100 or 800-5-BIOCON, or e-mail hmatysko@liebertpub.com.

Source: Business Wire

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