Experts discuss low awareness of obesity as a disease requiring treatment
2017 IrSPEN Policy Seminar: Facing the obesity challenge in Ireland
1. Differentiating between strategies for prevention of obesity and treatment
Professor Francesco Rubino, Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery, Kings College Hospital London
View profile and abstract here
2. Unmet need for bariatric surgery
Professor Patricia Kearney, Epidemiology & Public Health, University College Cork
View profile, abstract, and presentation here
3. Dietetic interventions in complex obesity
Therese Coleman, Dietitian National Rehabilitation Centre & Nutrition Consultant, Dublin
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4. Debate: ‘Access to obesity services should be rationed’
Professor Carel Le Roux, Experimental Pathology, University College Dublin
View profile, abstract, and Obesity Debate presentation here
Dr. Francis Finucane, Consultant Endocrinologist, Galway University Hospitals
