The Harvard TREC Annual Conference will provide an overview of the Harvard TREC research center highlighting the role of collaborative, transdisciplinary science in investigating the relationship between obesity and cancer. We will focus on understanding the risk factors, disease pathways, and links between obesity and cancer through discussions on the role of physical activity, the built environment, lifestyle factors, childhood obesity, health disparities, and sleep. The conference will provide a framework for understanding the link between obesity and cancer and a discussion on development of strategies for the prevention and control of these conditions.
DATE: Monday February 13, 2012
TIME: 1:30pm-6:00pm
LOCATION: Harvard Medical School, New Research Building, Rotunda Room, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Nathan Berger, Hanna-Payne Professor of Experimental Medicine and Director of the Center for Science, Health and Society; Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry and Oncology at Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine
REGISTRATION - Closed!
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1:20 – 1:30 pm Arrivals, light refreshments
1:30 – 1:40 pm Welcome and Opening Remarks
Frank Hu, Harvard TREC Program Director/Lead-PI; Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Co-Director, Program in Obesity Epidemiology and Prevention, HSPH; Director, Epidemiology and Genetics Core, Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center
1:40 – 1:50 pm Overview of the TREC Initiative Linda Nebeling, Chief of the Health Behaviors Research Branch (HBRB), in the Behavioral Research Program (BRP), Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI)
1:50 – 2:50 pm Keynote Address
Transdisciplinary Research in Obesity and Cancer: The Roles of Strategy and Serendipity
Nathan Berger, Hanna-Payne Professor of Experimental Medicine and Director of the Center for Science, Health and Society; Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry and Oncology at Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine
2:50 – 3:10 pm Coffee Break
3:10 – 3:20 pm Overview of the Harvard TREC Center Frank Hu
3:20 – 5:20 pm Harvard TREC: Key Themes and the State of the Science
Built Environment and Obesity and Physical Activity Francine Laden, Mark and Catherine Winkler Associate Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School
Sleep Duration, Childhood Energy Balance, and Insulin Resistance in Adolescence Elsie Taveras, Associate Professor of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Harvard Medical School; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Boston; Co-Director, Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine
Energetic Factors, Lethal Prostate Cancer, and Survivorship Jing Ma, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Epidemiologist, Department of Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital
Energy Balance and Cancer Survivorship Jennifer Ligibel, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Attending Physician, Adult Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Breast cancer risk prediction: Modeling the time-varying effect of obesity through obesity profiles Bernard Rosner, Professor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health; Professor, Department of Medicine, Brigham And Women's Hospital
5:20 – 5:30 pm Closing remarks
Frank Hu
Evening Activity Foyer (Ground Floor)
5:30 – 6:00 pm Reception
