UCSF Experts Featured in Sunday Magazine
UCSF nutrition, pediatrics and endocrinology experts are featured in a special magazine supplement to be distributed in the home delivery edition of the New York Times on Sunday, Jan. 15.
The magazine, "Childhood Obesity," is the product of a unique collaboration among UCSF, Kaiser Permanente and UCLA and is aimed at educating the public about the emerging crisis of obesity - and giving people specific things they can do about it.
Obesity frequently begins in childhood, and obesity rates among California children are alarmingly high: More than one of every four children in grades 5, 7 and 9 are overweight or obese, according to a recent study. That's 9 million obese children at risk for more serious health risks as they grow into adulthood.
Featured in the publication are:
- • Robert Baron, director of the UCSF Adult Weight Management Program,
- • Andrea Garber, coordinator of the UCSF Children's Hospital WATCH clinic,
- • Stephen Gitelman, director of the pediatric diabetes clinic
- • Melvin Heyman, chief of pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition,
- • School of Medicine Dean David Kessler,
- • Robert Lustig, director of the Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health (WATCH) clinic at UCSF Children's Hospital,
- • Laurel Mellin, associate clinical professor of Family and Community Medicine,
- • Colette O'Brien, nurse practitioner in the pediatric diabetes clinic