Conference
8th International Symposium on
In Vivo Body Composition Studies Program Overview
Outline of events
- The scientific program will begin on Thursday July 10th at 8:30am, and continues through Saturday July 12th at 1pm. View the conference time table here.
- The trade exhibition will run for the duration of the scientific meeting, from July 10th to July 12th. Times TBA.
- Registration and Welcome reception will take place on the evening of Wednesday July 9th, from 7:30pm-9pm.
- The General Meeting of the In Vivo Body Composition Studies Group will take place on Friday July 11th from 5:45pm-6:30pm.
Official language
- English will be the official language of the meeting.
Conference site
- The Symposium will be held at Columbia University, which is located on the Upper West Side (Morningside Heights neighborhood) of Manhattan in New York City.
Address: Alfred Lerner Hall , 2920 Broadway (between 114 th street and 115 th street) - Directions
Currency
- Please note that the currency is in United States Dollars.
CME Credits
- CME Credits will be offered for the conference. Details coming soon.
Conference Time Table |
8th International Symposium on
In Vivo Body Composition Studies
Program Overview
| Wednesday, July 9, 2008 | |
| 5:00 pm: | Conference On-Site Registration Begins |
| 1:00pm-5:30pm: | CME Workshop (see separate schedule) |
| 7:00pm-9:00pm: | Welcome Reception |
Overall Theme: Body Composition & Metabolic Function Across the Lifespan |
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| Day 1: Thursday, July 10, 2008 | |
| 8:30am-8:45 am: | Welcome |
| 8:45am-10:00 am: | Opening Lectures “Body Composition: Advances in Methodology, Measurement, & Modeling” |
| 10:00am-10:30am: | Coffee Break |
| 10:30am-11:45 pm: | Parallel sessions Session I: “Body Composition: New Methods” Session II: “Body Composition: New Directions” |
| 11:45am-12:00 pm: | Continued Panel Discussions for sessions I and II |
| 12:00pm-1:00pm: | Lunch |
| 1:00pm-2:00pm: | Poster presentation (Sessions I, II, III, IV) |
| 2:00pm-3:15pm: | Opening Lectures “Metabolic Function” |
| 3:15pm-3:45pm: | Coffee Break |
| 3:45pm-5:00pm: | Parallel sessions Session III: Static Studies (Bioelectrical impedance analysis) Session IV: Kinetic Studies (fMRI or Spectroscopy) |
| 5:00pm-5:15pm: | Continued Panel Discussions for sessions III and IV |
| 7:30pm: | Conference Dinner |
| Day 2: Friday, July 11th, 2008 | |
| July 11, 2008 8:30am-9:45 am: |
Opening Lectures “Body Composition: Applications” |
| 9:45am-10:15am: | Coffee Break |
| 10:15am-11:30 pm: | Parallel sessions Session V: “Lifespan I: Childhood/Growth (sex & ethnicity)” Session VI: “Lifespan II: Adulthood/Aging (sex & ethnicity)” |
| 11:30am-11:45am: | Continued Panel Discussions for sessions V and VI |
| 12:00pm-1:00pm: | Lunch |
| 1:00pm -2:00pm: | Poster presentation led by Chairperson (Sessions V, VI, VII, VIII) |
| 2:00pm-3:15pm: | Opening Lectures “Body Composition in Disease”
Key Topics Include: |
| 3:15pm-3:45pm: | Coffee Break |
| 4:00pm-5:15pm: | Parallel sessions Session VII: “Undernutrition” Session VIII: “Obesity” |
| 5:15pm-5:30pm: | Continued Panel Discussions for sessions VII and VIII |
| 5:45pm - 6:30pm: | Triennial General Meeting |
| Day 3: Saturday, July 12, 2008 | |
| 8:30am-10:30am: | Opening Lectures “Strategies of Body Composition in Clinical Trials” |
| 10:30am-11:00am: | Coffee Break |
| 11:00am-12:00pm: | The Gilbert Forbes Memorial Lecture “Integration of Body Composition in Translational Research: Future Directions” |
| 12:00pm-1:00pm: | Conference Highlights |
| 1:00pm-2:00pm: | Farewell lunch |
| 3:00pm-5:00pm: | Tour of the Body Composition Unit, New York Obesity Research Center, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital |
Invited Speakers
| Session | Name/Affiliation* | Title of Talk |
| Day 1 am: Speaker 1 | Dympna Gallagher, EdD Obesity Research Center, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hosp., Columbia University, New York |
Advances in Measurement & Methods “State-of-the-art measurements in human body composition: A moving frontier of clinical importance” |
| Day 1 am: Speaker 2 | Tim Nagy, PhD Department of Nutrition Sciences & CNRC, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama |
“State-of-the-art measurements in animal body composition: A moving frontier of clinical importance” |
| Day 1 am: Speaker 3 | Zimian Wang, PhD St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hosp., Columbia University, New York, NY |
Advances in Modeling “Computational modeling at the cellular level in growth and aging” |
| Day 1 pm: Speaker 4
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Antonio Piccoli, MD, DSc Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy. |
Application of a static measurement “Vector bioimpedance analysis in dialysis” |
| Day 1 pm: Speaker 5 | David Kelley, MD MERCK, Rahway, NJ |
Application of dynamic measurements “PET imaging of adipose tissue” |
| Day 1 pm: Speaker 6 | To Be Determined | Application of dynamic measurements “fMRI or Spectroscopy or Other ” |
| Session | Name/Affiliation* | Title of Talk |
| Day 2 am: Speaker 1 | Elizabet Forsum, MD Department of Biomedicine and Surgery, Division of Nutrition, University of Linkoping, SE-581 85 Linkoping, Sweden |
Body comp in growth/childhood “Maternal body composition in relation to infant growth and fatness” |
| Day 2 am: Speaker 2 | Ailsa Goulding, PhD Medicine, Medical and Surgical Sciences, Dunedin School of Medicine University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. |
Young children-adolescents “Bone fractures in children: Impact of fat and lean mass” |
| Day 2 am: Speaker 3 | Marjolein Visser, PhD Institute of Health Sciences, Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. |
Body composition in adulthood/aging “Changes in skeletal muscle and body fat in old age-results from longitudinal studies” |
| Day 2 pm: Speaker 4 | Marinos Elia, MD Institute of Human Nutrition University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK |
Undernutrition “Bridging the gap between body composition measurements and clinical outcome” |
| Day 2 pm: Speaker 5 | Robert Ross, PhD School of Physical & Health Education, Dept. Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. |
Adult Obesity “Influence of specific adipose tissue depots on metabolic risk” |
| Day 2 pm: Speaker 6 | Michael Goran, PhD Institute for Prevention Research & Dept Preventive Medicine, Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles. |
Childhood Obesity “Role of body composition on insulin dynamics in youth” |
| Session | Name/Affiliation* | Suggested title of talk |
| Day 3 am: Speaker 1 | Steve Heymsfield, MD MERCK, Rahway, NJ |
Strategies of BC in clinical trials “Rapid detection of weight loss drug-induced body composition effects” |
| Day 3 am: Speaker 2 | Claude Pichard, MD, PhD Clinical Nutrition, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland |
Strategies of BC in clinical trials “Choice of body composition techniques in different types of clinical trials’” |
| Day 3 am: Speaker 3 | David Allison, PhD Dept Statistical Genetics University of Alabama, Birmingham |
Strategies of BC in clinical trials “Body composition changes that influence mortality rate” |
| Day 3 am: Speaker 4 | F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer, MD Obesity Research Center, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hosp., Columbia University, New York |
Strategies of BC in clinical trials “Ectopic fat and metabolic risk in clinical trials” |
| Day 3 am: Speaker 5 | Ken Ellis, PhD CNRC, Depart Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX |
The Gilbert Forbes Memorial Lecture “Integration of body composition in translational research: Future directions” |
| Day 3 am: Speaker 6 | Chair of IBC 2011 To be announced at 2008 meeting. |
Conference Highlights |
Symposium
July 9 - 12th, 2008
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