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2nd SCOPE Summer School - Cambridge, UK

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16th-19th September 2010  

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Courses in 2010

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Key lectures from ECO2009 available

Key lectures from international speakers at ECO2009 were captured and are available to listen online.

Key lectures include:

  • BMI is an inappropriate marker of obesity related health risks- Berit Heitmann (Denmark)
  • Obesity and cancer- Alicja Wolk (Sweden)
  • Dietary strategies for obesity management- Arne Astrup (Denmark)
  • New leads in pharmacotherapy- Carel Le Roux (United Kingdom)
  • The effect of the triple monoamine reuptake inhibitor tesofensine on energy metabolism and appetite in overweight and moderately obese men- Anders Sjödin (Denmark)
  • A One-Year Study to Assess the Efficacy, Safety, and Tolerability of Taranabant in Maintaining Weight Loss Induced by Diet in Obese Patients- Steven Heymsfield (United States)

And the latest surgical approaches to obesity:

  • Improvement of type 2 DM after Gastric sleeve resection and Roux-Y gastric bypass personal series and review of the literature- Luigi Angrisani (Italy)
  • The mortality after anti-obesity surgery is not different from mortality in a general population cohort, despite higher post-operative co-morbid disease- Finn Rasmussen (Sweden)
  • New strategies in surgery, International guidelines for surgery- IFSO- John Melissas (Greece)
  • Eating Behaviour and Adjustment Post Weight Loss Surgery: A Patient Perspective- Dianne Tetley (United Kingdom)
  • Nutritional status in super-obese patients after gastric bypass and duodenal switch: a randomised study- Erlend Tuseth Aasheim (Norway)
  • Preliminary results of biliopancreatic diversion in BMI 25-35 patients with type 2 DM- Nicola Scopinaro (Italy)
  • Novell minimal and non invasive techniques and their effect on type 2 DM (Endobarrier)- Jan Willem Greve (Netherlands)

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Key lectures from ECO2008 available as webcasts

Key lectures from international speakers at ECO2008 were captured and are available to listen online.

Speakers include:

  • Arne Astrup
  • Alain Golay
  • Chris Holmes
  • Stephan Jacob
  • Stewart Mercer
  • Stephan Rossner
  • Jaap  Seidell
  • Boyd Swinburn
  • Constantine Tsigos
  • Tommy Visscher

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