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Community Pediatrics Teleconferences
The
Perfect Pair:
How
Schools and Pediatric Health Professionals Can Partner to Address
Obesity
Teleconference
May 25, 2006: 12:00 PM Central
Time By the end of the teleconference participants
will be able to:
- Understand the role schools play in impacting child eating
patterns and physical activity habits
- Identify potential strategies schools can employ to address
childhood obesity
- Identify roles pediatric health care professionals can play
to help schools address obesity
- Identify steps to develop a partnership with a school
- Identify potential collaboration pitfalls, challenges, and strategies
to overcome in partnering with schools
Website Resources
Audio of the teleconference is available by clicking
here.
Click here
to access PowerPoint slides.
Click here
to access the teleconference evaluation.
Faculty
Robert Murray, MD, FAAP
Dr Murray is a professor in the Department of Pediatrics of The
Ohio State University School of Medicine, located at Columbus
Children's Hospital. Starting in 2006, he will be the Director
of the hospital’s Comprehensive Weight Management Center.
Previously, Dr. Murray had spent 20 years at Children's Hospital
in the field of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, as well
as acting as the Director of the Borden Center for Nutrition and
Wellness. He then served for 3 years as the Pediatric Medical
Director for Ross Labs, a division of Abbott Labs before returning
to Children's in his current role.
Dr Murray attended Indiana University School of Medicine and did
his residency training in pediatrics at Butterworth Hospital (Spectrum
Health) in Michigan. He completed a fellowship in Pediatric GI and
Nutrition at Columbus Children’s in 1985 and has remained
on the faculty there since. As the Director of the Borden Center
for Nutrition and Wellness at Children’s, Dr. Murray worked
on the issue of obesity prevention in children. He is the chair-elect
of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on School Health and
has been their representative to the national Action for Healthy
Kids initiative, promoting school policies that combat obesity.
Dr. Murray is also the Chair of the health sector for Central Ohio’s
Healthy and Fit project, a community-wide effort to coordinate local
resources aimed at curbing obesity.
Howard Taras, MD, FAAP
Dr. Taras is a Professor at University of California-San Diego’s
School of Medicine, (“School Health USA) specializing in Community
Pediatrics and School Health. He consults to numerous school districts
and to day care centers for medically fragile children in San Diego
County and elsewhere in California.
Dr. Taras is immediate past chairman of the American Academy of
Pediatrics Committee on School Health and is now a member of this
Academy’s Task Force on Obesity. He is the Editor-in-Chief
of “Health, Mental Health, and Safety Guidelines for Schools”,
a federally funded compendium of guidelines recently released. He
leads two national projects designed to improve the relationship
between physicians and schools – one for students with asthma
and the other addressing obesity. Dr. Taras researches, publishes,
and teaches school health, as well as trains colleagues in other
universities to do the same.
J. Gary Wheeler MD, FAAP
Dr. Gary Wheeler is Co-director, Center for Health Promotion and
Wellness in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Arkansas
for Medical Sciences and a professor in the Department of Pediatrics
at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Dr. Wheeler's
research interests include: 1) wellness and prevention research,
tobacco and obesity 2) antibiotics overuse 3) Kawasaki’s Disease
4) vaccine policy. Dr. Wheeler has overseen grants through the Center
for Health Promotion such as "Creating Opportunities to Combat
Obesity in Arkansas" as funded through the AAP/HRSA and "Nutrition
and cardiovasxular disease prevention project" as funded through
NIH/NHLBI.
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