MODERATOR
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SPEAKER
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Robert Eckel, MD, Charles A. Boettcher Endowed Chair in Atherosclerosis; Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes and Cardiology; Professor of Physiology and Biophysics; Program Director, Adult General Clinical Research Center, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Aurora, CO
Gordon Jensen, MD, PhD, Professor and Head, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Description
1. Describe the evolution of the obesity epidemic
2. Discuss and highlight obesity in research and in practice
3. Summarize sarcopenic obesity and its implications