Description
FACULTY AND TOPICS
A New Cardiometabolic-based Chronic Disease Model:
From Genetics and Environment to Behaviors
Jeffrey Mechanick, MD, FACP, FACN, ECNU, MACE, Professor
of Medicine, Medical Director, The Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Center for
Clinical Cardiovascular Health at Mount Sinai Heart; Director of Metabolic
Support, Divisions of Cardiology and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Obesity: Blame it on the Brain!
Christopher Still, DO, FACP, FTOS, Director, Geisinger
Obesity Institute; Medical Director, Center for Nutrition and Weight
Management, Geisinger Health Care System, Danville, PA
Molecular Aspects of Structured Dietary Interventions
Salvatore Carbone, PhD, MS, Assistant Professor,
Department of Kinesiology & Health Sciences, College of Humanities &
Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
The Inflammatory Basis of Cardiometabolic Disease:
Targets for Intervention and Disease Prevention
W. Timothy Garvey, MD, Professor; Director, Diabetes
Research Center, Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at
Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
MODERATOR
Stephen McClave, MD, FACN, FASGE, FASPEN, AGAF, Professor
of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University
of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY
Presented by the ASPEN Physician Engagement Committee
Learning Objectives:
- Apply knowledge of molecular mechanisms of cardiometabolic disease to clinical practice
- Describe the molecular mechanisms of inflammation, brain function, and muscle metabolism in cardiometabolic disease
- Summarize how different molecular mechanisms can interact in a complex fashion in cardiometabolic disease
Speaker(s):
- Salvatore
Carbone,
PhD, MS, FHFSA,
Assistant Professor, Kinesiology and Health Sciences, College of Humanities and Sciences,
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
- W. Timothy (Tim)
Garvey,
MD,
Professor; Director, Diabetes Research Center, Department of Nutrition Sciences,
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
- Stephen
A. McClave,
MD, FACN, FASGE, FASPEN, AGAF,
Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Director of Clinical Nutrition,
University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY
- Jeffrey
I. Mechanick,
MD, FACP, FACN, ECNU, MACE,
Professor of Medicine, Medical Director, The Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Center for Clinical Cardiovascular Health at Mount Sinai Heart; Director of Metabolic Support,
Divisions of Cardiology and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
- Christopher
Still,
DO,
Director, Geisinger Obesity Institute; Medical Director, Center for Nutrition and Weight Management,
Geisinger Health Care System, Danville, PA
