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Oct 18 '22, 8:00 AM - Oct 22 '22, 5:00 PM
International Congress on Obesity (ICO)
Date
October 18 – 22, 2022
Place
Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre, Australia
About
The International Congress on Obesity (ICO) was established in 1974, and over 46 years has established itself as the pre-eminent global gathering for experts in obesity.
Working in close collaboration with World Obesity members Australian & New Zealand Obesity Society (ANZOS) and the Asia Oceania Association for the Study of Obesity (AOASO), after a short hiatus in it’s 46-year history, ICO 2022 will be the first in-person ICO in 6 years.
The congress will be open to approximately 1,000 delegates from a range of disciplines; including clinicians, policymakers, scientists, and UN representatives. The congress is curating an exciting and dynamic program that will bring together experts on a wide range of topics including obesity research and practice, pandemic preparedness, basic molecular and cellular science, clinical management and treatment, systems biology, public health, and policy. This will be an exceptional opportunity for delegates to engage with the most cutting-edge developments in the prevention and treatment of obesity, as well as a stimulating setting for networking and reconnecting.
Program and speakers
Plenary speakers
- Prof. Karine Clément, Professor of Nutrition, INSERM/Sorbonne Universite Research Unit, France
- Prof. Silvia Corvera, Professor and Endowed Chair, Diabetes Research, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, United States
- Prof. Jacob George, Robert W. Storr Chair of Hepatic Medicine, Sydney Medical School, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Australia
- Prof. Carlos Monteiro, Professor of Nutrition and Public Health, School of Public Health, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Prof. Eran Segal, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Symposium speakers
- Dr. Amber Alhadeff, Principal Investigator, Monell Chemical Senses Center & Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, United States
- Prof. Kathryn Backholer, Associate Professor and Associate Director, Global Obesity Centre, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia
- Prof. Rachel Batterham, Professor of Obesity, Diabetes and Endocrinology, University College London, United Kingdom
- Prof. Emma Boyland, Professor of Food Marketing and Child Health, Department of Psychology, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Dr. Jean-Philippe Chaput, Senior Scientist, CHEO Research Institute; Associate Professor, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Prof. Dan Cuthbertson, Professor of Medicine, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Assoc. Prof. Guillaume de Lartigue, Associate Member, Monell Chemical Senses Center; Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
- Assoc. Prof. Ana Domingos, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Dept. Physiology, Anatomy, Genetics at University of Oxford; Wellcome IRScholar Member of the Advisory Board of Cell Metabolism, United Kingdom
- Prof. Johan Gunnar Eriksson, Professor, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore
- Prof. Mark Febbraio, Head of Cellular and Molecular Metabolism Laboratory, Drug Discovery Program, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University Australia
- Prof. Sharon Friel, ARC Laureate Fellow, Professor of Health Equity and Director, Menzies Centre for Health Governance, School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
- Prof. Bee Koon Poh, Professor of Nutrition, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia
- Assoc. Prof. Camilla Scheele, Associate Professor, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Dr. Samantha Scholtz, Consultant Psychiatrist, Bariatric Surgery, St. Mary’s Hospital; Research and Development Director, London, United Kingdom
- Prof. Eran Segal, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
- Prof. Kate Steinbeck, Professor and inaugural Chair in Adolescent Medicine, University of Sydney, Australia
- Dr. Priya Sumithran, Group Leader, Obesity Research Group University of Melbourne, Department of Medicine (St Vincent’s) and Head of Obesity Medicine at Austin Health, Australia
- Dr. Verónica Vázquez-Velázquez, Clinical Psychologist, Obesity and Eating Disorders Clinic of the National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán (INCMNSZ), Mexico City, Mexico
- Prof. Matthew Watt, Head, Department of Anatomy & Physiology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Program
Please follow the link to access the provisional program, here.
Registration
Please follow the link to register, here.
