CAFÉ SCIENTIFIQUE: Understanding obesity, seeing past the stigma

Obesity affects one in four Canadians. The WHO estimates that 2.8 million people die each year worldwide due to complications of being overweight or obese. This is the epidemic of the 21st century but what do we really know about it?

When: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Where: Monument National 1182 St-Laurent, Montreal (Metro St-Laurent)

Free Entrance – Bilingual Event – Healthy Snacks

Panelists:

Dr. Alain Dagher – Researcher and Neurologist, Montreal Neurological Institute and RI MUHC

Dr. Kaberi Dasgupta – Physician, Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, MUHC and a Researcher in Diabetes, Obesity and Epidemiology, RI MUHC

Dr. Réjeanne Gougeon – Associate Professor, McGill Nutrition and Food Science Centre and a Researcher in Nutrition and Diabetes, Research Institute of the MUHC

Dr. Laurent Legault – Pediatric Endocrinologist and Head of the Diabetes Clinic, Montreal Children's Hospital, MUHC

For more information please contact Julie Robert, Communications Coordinator (Research), MUHC by

email julie.robert [at] muhc.mcgill.ca