2008

Programme

Thursday 10th July    ​

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08:30 – 08:45                     Welcome

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08:45 – 10:00                     Body Composition: Advances in Methodology, Measurement, & Modeling

• State-of-the-art measurements in human body composition: A moving frontier of
  clinical importance

Dympna Gallagher (USA)

• State-of-the-art measurements in animal body composition: A moving frontier of clinical importance

Tim Nagy (USA)

• Computational modeling at the cellular level in growth and aging

Zimian Wang (USA)​

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10:00 – 10:30                     Coffee Break

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10:30 – 11:45                     Parallel sessions

Session I: Body Composition: New Methods

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Session II: Body Composition: New Directions

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11:45 – 12:00                     Continued Panel Discussion for Sessions I and II

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12:00 – 13:00                     Lunch

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13:00 – 14:00                     Poster presentation (Sessions I, II, III, IV)

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14:00 – 15:15                     Metabolic Function

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15:15 – 15:45                     Coffee Break

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15:45 – 17:00                     Parallel sessions

Session III: Static Studies (Bioelectrical impedance analysis)

• Vector bioimpedance analysis in dialysis

Antonio Piccoli (Italy)

Session IV: Kinetic Studies (fMRI, Mitochondiral Function) 

• PET imaging of adipose tissue

David Kelley (USA)​

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17:00 – 17:15                     Continued Panel Discussion for Sessions III and IV

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19:00 –                               Social Engagement - Gala Cruise around Manhattan

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Friday 11th July

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08:30 – 09:45                     Body Composition: Applications

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09:45 – 10:15                     Coffee Break

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10:15 – 11:30                     Parallel sessions

Session V: Lifespan I: Childhood/Growth (sex & ethnicity)

• Maternal body composition in relation to infant growth and fatness

Elizabet Forsum (USA)

• Bone fractures in children: Impact of fat and lean mass

Ailsa Goulding (New Zealand)​

Session VI: Lifespan II: Adulthood/Aging (sex & ethnicity)

• Changes in skeletal muscle and body fat in old age-results from longitudinal studies

Marjolein Visser (Netherlands)

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11:30 – 11:45                     Continued Panel Discussion for Sessions V and VI

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12:00 – 13:00                     Lunch

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13:00 – 14:00                     Poster presentation (Sessions V, VI, VII, VIII)

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14:00 – 15:15                     Body Composition in Disease

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15:15 – 15:45                     Coffee Break

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16:00 – 17:15                     Parallel sessions

Session VII: Undernutrition

• Bridging the gap between body composition measurements and clinical outcome

Marinos Elia (UK)

Session VIII: Obesity

• Influence of specific adipose tissue depots on metabolic risk

Robert Ross (Canada)

• Role of body composition on insulin dynamics in youth

Michael Goran (USA)

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17:15 – 17:30                     Continued Panel Discussion for Sessions III and IV

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17:45 – 18:30                     Triennial General Meeting

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Saturday 12th July  

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08:30 – 10:30                     Strategies of Body Composition in Clinical Trials

• Rapid detection of weight loss drug-induced body composition effects

Steve Heymsfield (USA)

• Choice of body composition techniques in different types of clinical trials

Claude Pichard (Switzerland)

• Body composition changes that influence mortality rate

David Allison (USA)

• Ectopic fat and metabolic risk in clinical trials

F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer (USA)

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10:30 – 11:00                     Coffee Break

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11:00 – 12:00                     The Gilbert Forbes Memorial Lecture

Integration of Body Composition in Translational Research: Future Directions

Ken Ellis (USA)

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12:00 – 13:00                     Conference Highlights

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13:00 – 14:00                     Farewell Lunch

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15:00 – 17:00                     Tour of the Body Composition Unit, New York Obesity Research Center, St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital

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Posters

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• Pending

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