in collaboration with its

and Section on Public Health and Preventive Medicine

and the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services,

Office of Public Health & Science, Region III

Present

The Crisis of Childhood Obesity: Is It

Reversible?
Statistics show that more than 12.5 million children and adolescents -- 17.1% of people ages 2 to 19 years
-- are overweight or obese. These children and adolescents are more likely to have serious risk factors
associated with cardiovascular disease such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and Type 2 diabetes.
Teaching children the importance of healthy eating and being physically active at a young age is crucial
to reversing the serious obesity epidemic in this country.

Keynote Speaker:
Rear Admiral Steven K. Galson, MD, MPH
Acting Surgeon General
United States Department of Health and Human
Services

With participation, to date, by:

Donald F. Schwarz, MD, MPH
Deputy Mayor, Health & Opportunity and Health Commissioner
Philadelphia Department of Public Health

Calvin B. Johnson, MD, MPH

Secretary of Health, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

And a panel of local implementers to include to date:

Vanessa Briggs, MBA, RD, LDN
Executive Director, Health Promotion Council

Mariana Chilton, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health and Prevention, Drexel University

Arthur C. Evans, PhD

Director, Department of Behavioral Health, Department of Health and Human Services
and Acting Director, Department of Health and Human Services, City of Philadelphia

Tine Hansen-Turton, MGA, JD

Executive Director, National Nursing Centers Consortium

Thursday, April 3, 2008, 10:00 AM

Program will begin promptly; light refreshments available at 9:30 AM

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia,

19 South 22nd Street, Philadelphia
This program is free and open to the public.
To register call: 215.563.3737, ext. 304; email: lectures@collphyphil.org;
or visit: www.collphyphil.org to register on-line