The Counterweight Conference - Tackling Obesity Management in Primary Care

Tuesday 18 September 2007
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow

 

Programme (Click on a link to download the slides)

9.15 - 10.00
Registration
10.00 - 10.05

Welcome and introduction from the morning Chair
Professor Neil Douglas, President, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh

10.05 - 10.25

Obesity a growing problem

Kay Barton, Deputy Director of Health Improvement Strategy Division, Scottish
Executive

10.25 - 10.30
Questions
10.30 - 10.50
Weight management, treatment and prevention
Professor Iain Broom, Chair, Counterweight Board and Professor in Clinical Biochemistry, The Robert Gordon University; Professor in Metabolic Medicine, University of Aberdeen; Consultant, NHS Grampian
10.50 - 10.55
Questions
10.55 - 11.20
Refreshment break
11.20 - 11.40
Life before Counterweight – What was happening in Scotland?
Professor Mike Lean, Human Nutrition, University of Glasgow
11.40 - 11.45
Questions
11.45 - 12.10
Summary findings from the Counterweight baseline audit
Professor Gary Frost, Head of the Research in Nutrition, Dietetics & Food, The University of Surrey
12.10 - 12.15
Questions
12.15 - 12.40

Primary care management of obesity – The Counterweight Project

Hazel Ross, National Co-ordinator Counterweight Programme

12.40 - 12.50
Questions and discussion from the morning session
12.50 - 2.00
Lunch
2.00 - 2.05
Opening comments from the afternoon Chair
Dr Brian Williams, President, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow
2.05 - 2.25
Treatment types
Maria McQuigg, Weight Management Adviser, The Counterweight Project
Qualitative findings
Marney Quinn, Weight Management Adviser, The Counterweight Project
2.25 - 2.30
Questions
2.30 - 2.55
Health economics
Louise McCombie, Weight Management Adviser, The Counterweight Project
2.55 - 3.00
Questions
3.00 - 3.20
Fruit juice break
3.20 - 3.50
Panel discussion and your opportunity to get all your burning questions answered
Professor Mike Lean, Professor Iain Broom and Hazel Ross
3.50 - 4.00
The way forward - Future developments and progress on Counterweight
Hazel Ross
4.00 - 4.10
Questions, and closing comments from the Chair
4.10pm
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