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Roundtable on Obesity Solutions; Food and Nutrition Board; Institute of Medicine. Physical Activity: Moving Toward Obesity Solutions: Workshop Summary. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2015 Nov 10.

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Physical Activity: Moving Toward Obesity Solutions: Workshop Summary.

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PLANNING COMMITTEE FOR THE ROLE OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF OBESITY: A WORKSHOP1

  • RUSSELL R. PATE (Chair), Professor of Exercise Science, Director, Children's Physical Activity Research Group, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia
  • CEDRIC X. BRYANT, Chief Science Officer, American Council on Exercise, San Diego, California
  • KITTY HSU DANA, Vice President of Health, United Way Worldwide, Alexandria, Virginia
  • LORETTA DIPIETRO, Chair, Department of Exercise Science, George Washington University, Washington, DC
  • CHRISTINA ECONOMOS, Vice Chair and Director, ChildObesity180, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts
  • JOHN JAKICIC, Department of Health and Physical Activity, Director, Physical Activity and Weight Management Research Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • HAROLD W. (BILL) KOHL III, Professor of Epidemiology and Kinesiology, Department of Epidemiology and Kinesiology, University of Texas Health Science Center, Michael & Susan Dell Center for the Advancement of Healthy Living, Austin, Texas
  • JAMES RIMMER, Director, Lakeshore Foundation, University of Alabama–Birmingham

IOM Staff

  • LYNN PARKER, Scholar
  • LESLIE J. SIM, Senior Program Officer
  • HEATHER DEL VALLE COOK, Program Officer
  • SARAH ZIEGENHORN, Research Associate (until June 2015)
  • SARAH SIEGEL, Program Coordinator (until May 2015)
  • DARA SHEFSKA, Research Assistant
  • RENEE GETHERS, Senior Program Assistant

Consultant

  • WILLIAM H. DIETZ, George Washington University, Washington, DC

Footnotes

1

Institute of Medicine planning committees are solely responsible for organizing the workshop, identifying topics, and choosing speakers. The responsibility for the published workshop summary rests with the workshop rapporteur and the institution.

Copyright 2015 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
Bookshelf ID: NBK333480

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