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Conference - ASOI 2017 Annual Conference
May
04
2017
Posted: 15:52 IST
The Association for the Study of Obesity on the Island of Ireland (ASOI) are delighted to announce our 2017 Annual Conference. This year our focus is on Childhood Obesity and, in collaboration with Health Behaviour Change Research Group at NUI Galway, and University College Cork, we have an expanded program over two days with over 15 keynote speakers from 7 different countries. Full details at http://www.asoi.info/
Day 1 of ASOI 2017 will focus on prevention of childhood obesity, and integral to the day we are holding roundtable discussion workshops as part of a study to identify and prioritise knowledge gaps concerning obesity prevention and knowledge translation.
Day 2 of ASOI 2017 will focus on the treatment of paediatric obesity, and we will also have breakout workshops during the day allowing attendees to further tease the topics raised with reference to their area of interest/practice.
Abstract Call is now open!!
- Please see the call for abstracts and programme
- Register Here: http://buytickets.at/asoi
This conference will be relevant to students, healthcare professionals, educators and researchers involved in the fields of primary care, paediatrics, public health, health policy and implementation science, amongst others. There will be the opportunity to present posters across both days of the conference, with a prize presented on each day to the best poster relevant to the topic of that day.
Day 1 of this two-day event is kindly supported by the Irish Research Council New Foundations Scheme through funding awarded to Dr Karen Matvienko-Sikar (UCC) for COS-IF: Core Outcome Set for Infant Feeding, and Ms Marita Hennessy (HBCRG, NUI Galway) for POCKETS: Prevention of Childhood Obesity-Knowledge Exchange and TranSlation.
