Abstracts & Programme
Programme
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Speakers from New Zealand and Australia will demonstrate the value of their latest research, knowledge and/or experience in their professional practice as well as providing clear, practical information that can be applied by the attending delegates.
The conference is due to start at approximately 8.45am.
The following speakers have been confirmed (in order of last name):
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Dr. Harriette Carr
Obesity - National Response
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Biography
Dr Harriette Carr is a Public Health Medicine Specialist within the Healthy Eating – Healthy Action (HEHA) Team in the Ministry of Health. Harriette has been with the Ministry since 2002, and has been involved with HEHA since its inception. Her main areas of work within the HEHA Team are physical activity, and research, evaluation and monitoring. When not working she enjoys running, tramping and spending time with her children.
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Dr. Rozanne Kruger
Body Composition Profiling – Weighing Up Body Fat, Body Weight and Health Risks
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Biography
Dr Kruger is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Human Health, Massey University, Auckland, and was formerly head of the Food and Nutrition Section, Department of Consumer Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Rozanne is a qualified South African registered dietitian, and completed her PhD at the North West University in South Africa. Her main areas of interest include determinants of obesity, dietary and anthropometric assessment and household food security. She has been involved in food security research in South Africa, specifically related to dietary diversity and implementing food-based approaches as solutions. In New Zealand Rozanne has been part of the research groups looking at iron status of young women and increasing omega 3 PUFA status from salmon or salmon oil capsules. Currently her research is focused on body composition profiling and obesity prevention relating to food and nutrition issues in various populations in New Zealand.
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Dr. Anne-Thea McGill
Malnutritive Obesity, Human Brain Evolution and Diets for Survival
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Biography
Dr Anne-Thea McGill BSc.MBChB.FRNZCGP is a Fellow of the RNZCGP and has been a council member of the Australia and New Zealand Obesity Society (ANZOS). Since 1998 she has taken a close interest in obesity and metabolic medicine. She has presented at local and international conferences on obesity. She has undertaken courses in obesity medicine (bariatrics) and now works only in this field. Currently, she runs B-Med Weight Control, her own medical weight loss clinic in Auckland. She has worked with obese patients in bariatric surgery programmes. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Auckland and runs courses in Lifestyle Health and Health Promotion. She also works with a research team at the Human Nutrition Unit, University of Auckland. She has been principal investigator of a number of studies, including weight loss drug trials, metabolic syndrome work and, currently, a bariatric surgery and hormone trial. Dr McGill is doing a PhD in the area of obesity and metabolic syndrome. |
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Assoc. Prof. Sally Poppitt
Appetite Regulation in the Control of Body Weight
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Biography
Sally Poppitt is the director of the Human Nutrition Unit at the University of Auckland and also is Associate Professor of Nutrition in the School of Biological Sciences and Department of Medicine. She has been living and working in New Zealand for the past 10 years, where from 2006-08 she was also director of clinical trials development at Protemix Corporation working on therapeutics for obesity-related conditions including insulin resistance and diabetes. Prior to that Sally was a research fellow at the MRC Dunn Nutrition Unit based in Cambridge, UK and at the MRC tropical research facility in The Gambia, West Africa. |
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Prof. Elaine Rush
The Choice of Cut-Offs for Obesity Risk in a Multiethnic Population
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Biography
Elaine Rush has research expertise in the measurement of body composition, energy expenditure, physical activity, nutrition and risk factors for disease. A particular interest in ethnic differences particularly among Maori, Pacific Island, European, Chinese and Indian populations in New Zealand has led to over 65 peer reviewed publications. Elaine also serves on the Councils of a number of nutrition and obesity organisations and is the New Zealand representative for the International Association for the Study of Obesity, IASO. She has been an expert consultant for the World Health Organisation and the International Atomic Energy Agency in Nutrition and Health. Her research projects include a large diabetes prevention strategy, Project Energize in the Waikato, the health and growth of children whose mothers had gestational diabetes and the longitudinal Pacific Island Family study which is tracking over 1000 Pacific Islander children from birth.
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Professor Richard Stubbs
Resolution of Type 2 Diabetes and Other Comorbidities by Bariatric Surgery
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Biography
Richard is an Otago graduate who completed surgical training in the UK, and a period of fulltime research in the US, before returning to Wellington in 1986. He spent 5 years in the academic Department of Surgery before entering fulltime private practice at Wakefield Hospital where he established what is now the Wakefield Gastroenterology Centre. His practice is confined to the surgery of the upper GI tract, and he has developed a particular interest and reputation in the management of liver tumours, and the surgery of severe obesity. He is Director of the Wakefield Biomedical Research Unit and runs an active clinical and basic science research programme with a team of some eight scientists. His basic science research programme relates to exploring the fundamental basis of insulin resistance, on which subject he has a particular hypothesis, and the molecular basis of metastasis. He was appointed a Professor with the Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences in January 2008 and has since moved his research Group from Wakefield Hospital to the Medical School in Wellington. |
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Prof. Boyd Swinburn
The Obesity Epidemic: Drivers, Moderators, Enablers, and Solutions
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Biography
Boyd Swinburn is Professor of Population Health and Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention at Deakin University in Melbourne. He trained as a specialist endocrinologist in Auckland and his research career began with metabolic and clinical studies at the National Institutes of Health in Phoenix, Arizona and at the University of Auckland. He was the Medical Director of the National Heart Foundation in New Zealand from 1993-2000. His major research interest at Deakin University is centred on obesity prevention, particularly in children and adolescents. He has developed and supported a number of community-based demonstration projects in the Barwon-South West region of Victoria and these are linked to similar projects in Melbourne, Auckland, Fiji, and Tonga.
He was President of the Australasian Society for the Study of Obesity (ASSO) from 2005-7 and has been a Steering Group member of the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) since 1997. He has also contributed as an Expert Advisor to WHO on obesity at 15 WHO Consultations around the world since 1998. Through these efforts and his many publications and presentations, he is significantly contributing to national and global efforts to reduce the obesity epidemic.
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Te Aniwa Tutara
The Challenge in Dealing with Obesity in a Social and Cultural Context
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Biography
Te Aniwa Tutara is of Ngati Whatua descent, from the Kaipara region. She is the General Manager of Maori Health for Waitemata DHB, with previous work history in funding health services, mental health management and Maori community development. Te Aniwa is the Chair of Te Tumu Whakarae (National reference group for DHB Maori Managers) and was nominated onto NSTR where she provides input on the equity and whanau ora aspects of the review process. |
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Prof. Gary Wittert
Assessing and Managing Obesity in Men
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Biography
Gary Wittert, a graduate of the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, is currently Professor of Medicine and Head of the School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, and Senior Consultant Endocrinologist Royal Adelaide Hospital. He is a Chief Investigator in the CCRE for Nutritional Physiology and Founding member of the Freemasons Foundation Centre for Men’s Health Research. Professor Wittert is the Independent Chair of the Weight Management Council of Australia and Vice President of the Asia Oceania Society for the Study of Obesity.
His research on various aspects of obesity is undertaken at basic, clinical and population health levels. In addition he has an interest in men’s heath and in particular the relationship between androgens, obesity and the metabolic syndrome. He has authored ~140 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and is currently funded by the NH&MRC, ARC, NHF and Medical Benefits Foundation.
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Dr. Mark Vickers
Developmental Programming of Obesity
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Biography
Dr Mark Vickers is a Senior Research Fellow at the Liggins Institute and the National Research Centre for Growth and Development at The University of Auckland. Dr Vickers’ research focus is on the developmental origins of health and disease (the “DOHaD” model) with a particular focus on early life programming of obesity and related metabolic disorders. Dr Vickers’ has established a number of small animal models utilising the paradigm of altered maternal nutrition to examine the mechanistic basis of developmental programming. He also investigates the potential for reversibility of programming the obese phenotype via interventions during critical windows of development and was the first to show that programming was potentially reversible with neonatal leptin treatment. Dr Vickers has published over 35 international papers in the field of early life origins of adult disease.
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Dr. Richard Babor
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Biography
Richard Babor is a Consultant General, Upper-gastrointestinal and Bariatric Surgeon at Counties Manukau District Health Board in Auckland. Richard gained experience in bariatric surgery through post-fellowship training in Sydney, Australia. Since returning to New Zealand he has been involved with the public hospital bariatric surgery program at Counties Manukau and also works in the private sector as a bariatric surgeon (www.awls.co.nz). His current research interests include implementation of bariatric surgery in the NZ public hospital setting, differential effects, and costs of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and laparoscopic gastric bypass used to treat diabetes in the morbidly obese, and the effect of enhanced peri-operative care on outcomes after sleeve gastrectomy in morbidly obese diabetics.
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Ms. Kate Berridge
Bariatric Surgery: The first two years post surgery
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Biography
Kate is the Bariatric Nurse Specialist at CMDHB and has 22 years of experience in a variety of clinical and educational positions. Some of her past experience includes working in Trauma, Orthopaedics, IV Therapy and as a Clinical Nurse Educator. Kate has been involved with this programme from its infancy and has a continued interest in promoting healthy lifestyle management and not only obesity surgery.
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