OBESITY SOCIETY PRESENTS AWARDS DURING ANNUAL MEETING
The Obesity Society presented awards that recognized specific research achievements and major contributions to the basic science, treatment, and prevention of obesity at its recent meeting in Washington, DC. This year's awards and highlights of the careers of several obesity researchers included the following:
2017 Friends of Albert (Mickey) Stunkard Lifetime Achievement Award
Eric Ravussin, PhD, FTOS, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
2017 TOPS Research Achievement Award
Christos S. Mantzoros, MD, Harvard Medical School
2017 Atkinson-Stern Award for Distinguished Public Service
Michelle Obama, Obama Foundation
Master of the American Board of Obesity Medicine
W. Timothy Garvey, MD, FTOS, University of Alabama at Birmingham
2017 Thomas A. Wadden Award for Distinguished Mentorship
David B. Allison, PhD, FTOS, University of Alabama at Birmingham
2017 Mid-Career Scientific Achievement Award Presentation
Matthew Hayes, PhD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
2017 George A. Bray Founders Award Presentation
Diana Thomas, PhD, FTOS, United States Military Academy
2017 George A. Bray Master's Thesis and Doctoral Dissertation Awards Presentation
Dissertation Recipient: Kristin Hoddy, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago
Thesis Recipient: Monica Saumoy, MD, Weill Cornell Medicine
2017 Early Career Research Grant
Lauren Stein, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
2017 Weight Watchers Karen Miller-Kovach Research Grant Presentation
Recipient: Brooke Nezami, PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Congratulations to all on this well-deserved honor!
KIRWAN NAMED EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER
John Kirwan, director of the Metabolic Translational Research Center and professor of molecular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, has been named executive director of LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center. In addition to serving as director of the Metabolic Translational Research Center and professor of molecular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, Kirwan is also a professor of physiology and of nutrition at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland. His professional expertise includes almost 30 years of research, teaching, and service in the obesity and diabetes fields. Kirwan received his clinical physiology training and MD at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, Missouri; his PhD in human bioenergetics at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana; his master's degree in exercise biochemistry from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and his bachelor's degree (Hons) from the University of Limerick, Ireland.
Kirwan leads an internationally acclaimed biomedical research program focused on diabetes, obesity, nutrition, and exercise. He is currently principal investigator or coinvestigator on 9 National Institutes of Health grants, and to date, he has generated more than $35 million in research funding, most which has come from the US National Institutes of Health and the food, pharmaceutical, and medical device industries. Among his most important research contributions is the discovery that for a significant number of diabetes patients can be put into long-term remission by surgically altering the physiology of the intestine and stomach.
CALENDAR
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
February 26 to March 4, 2018
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American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology/World Allergy Organization Joint Congress
March 2 to 5, 2018
Orlando, Florida
http://www.aaaai.org
American Society of Preventive Oncology 42nd Annual Conference
March 10 to 13, 2018
New York, New York
http://aspo.org
XV International Conference on Food Security and Nutrition
April 9 to 11, 2018
Copenhagen, Denmark.
http://www.icfsn.org/
National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings
April 10 to 14, 2018
Austin, Texas
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