The Obesity Challenge in Public Health: Integrating Best Practices into Culturally Competent, Family-Centered, Community Solutions
An Interdisciplinary Distance Learning Workshop
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About this Workshop
The Obesity Challenge in Public Health workshop is designed to help participants look at obesity and overweight in children and adolescents through a public health focus on the family and community.
Topics Include:
- Promoting healthy lifestyles in an unhealthy environment
- Commercialization of Children and Industrialization of Food
- Health disparities in relation to overweight and obesity
- Evidence based research and best practices in treatment of pediatric and adolescent overweight and obesity
- Understanding culture in health promotion
- School wellness policy: what does it look like in real life?
- Case studies and model programs
Participants at all sites will have a chance to interact and ask questions of the speakers.
Registration Information
Select the following link to view and print the Workshop Brochure. To register, select the Registration Form, fill out form, save a copy and submit by email, fax, or post. Most sites have limited seating so early registration is encouraged. Registrations must be submitted by February 19, 2009.
Speakers
 Dr. Theora Evans, PhD is the associate dean of Social Work University of Tennessee Memphis Campus and Associate Professor. She recieved her BS and MSW from Loyola University, an MPH from University of Illionios, Chicago andher PhD from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Evans' research agenda is the healthy transition of adolescents to adulthood, with a specific focus on the psychosocial development of adolescents diagnosed with chronic physical illnesses and disabling conditions (CID). Dr. Evans’s work not only seeks to enhance the psychosocial functioning of youth but to identify barriers that may contribute to disparities in the delivery of health, mental health, and social services to this population. Social isolation has been identified as a primary etiology for psychosocial distress among adolescents with CID. Whether social isolation is real or perceived by youth it contributes to internal and external manifestations of distress. Seemingly, two sub-populations are increasingly at-risk for social isolation, adolescents with invisible CID and youth of color.
.jpg) Dayle Hayes, MS, RD is an author, educator, and nationally-known school wellness expert. She has collected dozens of school success stories for Making It Happen, a joint CDC-USDA project and developed two popular kits (School Wellness: A Golden Opportunity and Enriching Family Mealtimes) for school leaders. Most recently, she co-authored the Position of the American Dietetic Association: Nutrition Guidance for Healthy Children Ages 2 to 11 Years, published in June 2008. Ms. Hayes graduated with a degree in biology from University of Massachusetts-Boston and received an MS in community health education from University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
 David Mirvis, MD Dr. David M. Mirvis is Professor of Preventive Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, TN. He is also a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and serves on the graduate faculty of the program in Health Outcomes and Policy Research and Epidemiology. He received his MD degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in 1970, and subsequently trained in internal medicine and cardiology at the National Institutes of Health and at the University of Tennessee.
Cecilia Pozo Fileti, MS, RD, FADA Cecilia Pozo Fileti  serves as president of Latino Health Communications, a bilingual consulting firm servicing the food, pharmaceutical, and health care industries. Ms. Pozo Fileti was the first Hispanic spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association (ADA). She is a current board member and immediate past chairman of the Latinos & Hispanics Member Interest Group, and is one of the entities founders and remains a leader for diversity initiatives bridging food, science and health across cultures. Ms. Pozo Fileti received her Bachelor’s of Science from the University of Dayton in Ohio, and a Master’s of Science in human nutrition from Eastern Michigan University. She is a registered dietitian and holds postgraduate certifications in several sub-specialty areas of practice.
Hollie Raynor,  PhD, RD Hollie Raynor, PhD, RD, earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Food and Nutrition from San Diego State University and her Master of Science degree in Public Health Nutrition from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, where she had also been a Maternal and Child Health Trainee. She obtained her PhD in clinical psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Dr. Raynor’s research interests are in combining her nutrition and psychology training, by investigating eating regulation, specifically factors that affect satiation, and behavioral interventions for obesity. She is interested in eating regulation in both adults and children, and in examining factors that affect choices in eating behavior.
Sarah Stender, MD, CDE
Dr. Stender is a native of Charleston, South Carolina. She received her BA from Vanderbilt University, and her MD from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. She has done training in both Pediatrics and Psychiatry at The University of Tennessee, East Carolina University, and the University of North Carolina. Dr. Stender is currently Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at University of Tennessee Health Science Center, in the Division of Adolescent Medicine and Endocrinology and Metabolism.
Continuing Education Accreditation
There are 11 contact hours of content in this two-day workshop. Continuing professional education has been requested for the following: Case Managers, Certified Health Education Specialists, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Psychology, and Registered Dietitians. Approved accreditation will be posted on this website as it becomes available.
Please email nutritionworkshop@utmem.edu if you have questions about other disciplines.
Certificates of completion for 11 contact hours will be available to all other participants at the conclusion of the two-day Workshop.
Site Locations
Child Health and Disability Prevention (CHDP) Program - Los Angeles, CA
California Department of Healthcare Services Children's Medical Services - Sacramento, CA
Department of Public Health - San Bernardino, CA (site is now full)
Alameda County Public Health’s Child Health & Disability Prevention Program (CHDP) - San Leandro, CA
Mississippi State Department of Health - Jackson , MS
Oregon Health and Science University - Portland, OR (site is now full)
Center for Development and Learning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Chapel Hill, NC
South Carolina Institute for Childhood Obesity and Related Disorders, University of South Carolina School of Medicine - Columbia, SC
University of Tennessee, Knoxville in collaboration with Knox County Health Department - Knoxville, TN (site is now full)
University of Tennessee Boling Center for Developmental Disabilities (HOST) - Memphis, TN
Tennessee Department of Public Health - Nashville, TN
Tennessee State University Department of Health Administration and Health Science -Nashville, TN (site is now full)
Virginia LEND Program, Virginia Commonwealth University - Richmond, VA (site is now full)
Washington State Department of Health - Tumwater, WA (site is now full)
Contact Information
For questions email nutritionworkshop@utmem.edu or call 901-448-6451.
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