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Past Obesity Alliance Weekly CME Conferences
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Nov. 1st, 2007 - Nov. 1st, 2008  Obesity Alliance Weekly CME Conference

NOVEMBER 2007

  • November 1, 2007
    Steven Smith, MD
    "Intrinsic Defects in Substrate Switching in Skeletal Muscle: A Precursor to Obesity and Diabetes"

  • November 8, 2007
    Joel Goodman, Ph.D.
    "Peroxisomes, Lipid Droplets, and Lipodystrophy - All in Yeast!"

  • November 15, 2007
    Helen Hobbs, MD
    "The Dallas Heart Study - History & Future"

    Syllabus| Slides
  • November 29, 2007
    Robert Hegele, MD, FRCPC, FACP
    "Genetic forms of the cardiometabolic syndrome"

    Syllabus | Slides
  • December 6, 2007
    Kenneth Cusi, MD, FACE
    " Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD):Time for New Treatment Strategies?"

    Syllabus | Slides

  • December 13, 2007
    Charles Rosenfeld, MD
    "Insulin Resistance in Hispanic Large-for-Gestational Age Neonates at Birth"
    Syllabus | Slides

  • December 20, 2007
    David Self, Ph.D.
    "Mechanisms of D2 Receptor Sensitization in Cocaine Relapse"
    Syllabus | Slides
  • December 27, 2007- rescheduled
    Colleen A. McClung, Ph.D.
    "Circadian Genes, Rhythms and the Biology of Mood Disorders and Obesity Phenotype"
  • Thursday, January 03, 2008 
    Stanley Hazen, M.D., Ph.D.
    “ HDL: Lipoprotein Particle at the Crossroads of Dyslipidemia, Inflammation and Cardiovascular Disease”
    Special Seminar at 1:00 PM, Y6.224 (Non-CME)
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   2008 Lectures 

  • Thursday, January 10, 2008
    Philip W. Shaul, M.D.
    "CRP and the Metabolic Syndrome: Marker or Mediator?"

    Syllabus  | Slides
  • Thursday, January 17, 2008
    Makoto Kuro-O, MD, Ph.D.
    "The Klotho gene-family regulators of FGF and metabolism"

    Syllabus  | Slides
  • Thursday, January 24, 2008
    Rex Ahima, M.D., Ph.D.

    "Resistin"
    Syllabus  | Slides
  • Thursday, January 31, 2008
    Stephen Farmer, Ph.D.
    "Role of PPARgamma and SIRT1 in Regulating Adipocyte Formation and Function"
    Syllabus | Slides
  • Thursday, February 07, 2008
    Michael Jensen, MD
    "Adipose Tissue Metabolism - An Aspect We Should not Neglect?"

    Syllabus | Slides
  • Thursday, February 14, 2008
    Coleen A. McClung, Ph. D.
    "Circadian Genes, Rhythms and the Biology of Mood Disorders and Obesity Phenotype"

    Syllabus | Slides
  • Thursday, February 21, 2008 
    Robert Bachoo, M.D., Ph.D
    "GBM Metabolism: The genetics of supply and demand"

  • Thursday, February 28, 2008
    Randy Seeley, Ph.D.
    "How obesity went to our heads: Novel aspects of the neuroendocrine control of energy balance"

  • Thursday, March 06, 2008
    Leon Avery, Ph.D., MBA
    "Molecular basis of feeding regulation"

  • Thursday, March 13, 2008
    Philipp Scherer, Ph.D.
    "The role of adipokines in Diabetes, Obesity and Lipid Metabolism"
    Syllabus | Slides
  • Thursday, March 20, 2008
    Michael Schwartz, M.D.
    "Diabetes, Obesity and the Brain"

    Syllabus | Slides
  • Thursday, March 27, 2008 
    Hei Sook Sul, Ph.D.
    "A tale of two local adipose regulatiors: Pref-1 and AdPLA"
  • Thursday, April 03, 2008
    Giuseppe Novelli, M.D
    "Simple genotypes and complex phenotypes: The strange case of Mr. Lamin gene"
  • Thursday, April 10, 2008
    Jon Graff, MD, Ph.D.
    "Fat Pharm: New approaches to regulating metabolism"
  • Thursday, April 17, 2008
    Carol Elias, Ph.D.
    "Hypothalamic pathways linking leptin action and reproduction"

    Syllabus | Slides
  • Thursday, April 24, 2008
    Rudolph L. Leibel, M.D.
    "Molecular Physiology of the Control of Body Weight"
  • Thursday, May 08, 2008
    Roger H. Unger, M.D.
    "Leptin,lipotoxicity and lipid partitioning: How adipogenic capacity determines susceptibility to T2D and metabolic syndrome".
  • Thursday, May 15, 2008
    Timothy F. Osborne, Ph.D."
    "Transcriptional Regulation of Lipid Metabolism"
  • Thursday, May 22, 2008
    Russell Debose-Boyd, Ph.D.
    "
    Feedback regulation of cholesterol synthesis through ER-associated degradation of HMG CoA reductase."
  • Thursday, May 29, 2008
    Lora Hooper, Ph.D.
    "Innate immune responses to commensal bacteria at gut epithelial surfaces"
  • Thursday, June 05, 2008
    Matthias Tschoep, M.D.
    "The gut-brain axis in metabolic regulation"
  • Thursday, June 12, 2008
    Ruth McPherson, M.D., Ph.D.
    "Genetic Complexity of Obesity"
  • Thursday, June 19, 2008
    David Russell, PhD
    "
    Cholesterol Turnover in the Brain"
  • Thursday, June 26, 2008
    Joel Elmquist, DVM, PhD
    "Hypothalamic integration of metabolic cues into coordinated physiological responses"
  • Thursday, July 03, 2008
    No meeting
  • Thursday, July 10, 2008
    Masashi Yanagisawa, M.D., Ph.D.
    "Orexin: A link between sleep/wake and energy homeostasis?"
  • Thursday, July 17, 2008
    Craig Malloy, M.D
    "Non-invasive analysis of adipose composition in humans"
  • Thursday, July 24, 2008
    Anna Mae Diehl, M.D.
    "Fixing Fatty Livers"
  • Thursday, July 31, 2008 
    Melanie Cobb, PhD
    “MAPKs in beta cell function”
  • Thursday, August 07, 2008 
    Burant, Charles MD
    "Hepatic Steatosis and Insulin Resistance in Hepatitis C"
  • Thursday, August 14, 2008
    Timothy E. Graham, MD
    "
    RBP4 and Insulin Resistance: New Insights into Physiological Function and Cellular Mechanism"
  • Thursday, August 21, 2008
    Donalyn Scheuner, Ph.D.
    "The Role of Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Beta Cell Biology and Metabolic Disease"
  • Thursday, August 28, 2008
    Anthony Scime, Ph.D.
    "A Role of p107 in Mesodermal Cell Fate Decisions"
  • Thursday, Sep. 4, 2008
    Kevin Grove, Ph.D.
    "Fetal lipotoxicity and the development of metabolic system in the nonhuman primate"
  • Thursday Sep. 11, 2008
    Philip Kern, M.D.
    "Insulin resistance: changes in gene expression related to lipid partitioning and inflammation"
  • Thursday Sep. 18, 2008
    Deborah L. Clegg
    "Sex Matters!"
  • Thursday, Sep. 25, 2008
    Steven K. Grinspoon, MD
    "Pathophysiology and Management of Fat Redistribution in HIV Lipodystrophy"
  • Thursday, October 02, 2008
    Keith Parker, M.D., Ph.D.
    "Steroidogenic factor 1: key mediator of endocrine function."
  • Thursday, October 09, 2008
    Jonathan C. Cohen, Ph.D.
    "Genetic variation in PNPLA3 confers susceptibility to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease"