RSM Event: Obesity: 9 Dec 2014

9.00 am
Registration, tea and coffee

9.25 am
Welcome and introduction

Professor Christopher Byrne, Lipids, Metabolism and Vascular Risk Section, Royal Society of Medicine
Morning Session

9.30 am
Obesity epidemic and diabesity

Dr Akheel Syed, Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Obesity Medicine, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust

10.10 am
Obesity and the dyslipidaemia of diabetes

Professor Paul Durrington, Cardiovascular Research Group, University of Manchester

10.50 am
Tea and coffee break

11.30 am
Adipose tissue depots; are they all the same? Characteristics, Expandability, Lipotoxicity and the Metabolic Syndrome

Professor Antonio Vidal-Puig, Professor in Molecular Nutrition and Metabolism, Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge

12.10 pm
Medical management of obesity: Current and future therapies

Speaker to be confirmed

12.50 pm
Lunch
Afternoon Session

1.40 pm
Surgical management of obesity: What procedure and when?

Professor Basil Amorri, Consultant Laparoscopic & Bariatric Surgeon, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust

2.20 pm
Obesity and obstructive sleep apnoea: Implications for lipoproteins, vascular risk, adipose tissue characteristics and the effect of weight loss after bariatric surgery

Dr Handrean Soran, Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist, Central Manchester NHS foundation Trust

3.00 pm
Obesity: Lessons from genetic studies

Prof Sadaf Farooqi, Welcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow, Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, Department of Clinical Biochemistry

3.40 pm
Completion of evaluation forms

3.45 pm
Close of meeting