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"