Nutrition & Obesity

Dear Member of the Nutrition and Obesity Section and interested others:

Thank you for making our sessions at the 41st annual DDW® in New Orleans, LA scientifically relevant and exciting! If you have specific feedback regarding speakers sponsored by the Nutrition and Obesity (N&O) Section at DDW, please share your thoughts with us. We will do our best to consider your comments and concerns as we plan our program for next DDW 2011 in Chicago.

One of our section's abstracts "Leptin Resistance in Vagal Afferent Neurons Leads to Decreased Cholecystokinin Signaling in Diet-induced Obese Rats" was presented at the successful AGA Institute Basic Science Plenary Session.

This year the N&O section accepted the majority of the abstracts submitted. The accepted abstracts are designated as oral or poster presentations and of distinction based on their ranking by our dedicated abstract reviewers.

N&O Abstract Selection 2010
Total Abstracts submitted 111
Accepted Abstracts 93
Oral Presentations 23
Posters 70
Posters of Distinction 8

N&O sponsored Clinical and Translational Symposia, and abstract based Research and Topic Fora, as well as one Distinguished Abstract Plenary.

N&O Sessions
Sunday, May 2, 2010 Attendance
Topic Forum: Nutrition and Cancer 10:30am-12:00pm 50
Research Forum: Nutritional Support 2:15pm-3:45pm 65
Monday, May 3, 2010
Translational Symposium: Contemporary Issues in Nutrition Support
Speakers: Claude Pichard, Alistair Forbes, Dan Waitzberg		 2:15pm-3:45pm 80
Research Forum: Surgical and Endoscopic Management of Obesity 4:00pm-5:30pm unknown
SOA Lecture: Nutrigenomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics: The Future is Upon Us and Insights for Disease Prevention and Treatment
Speaker: Steven H. Zeisel		 4:00pm-5:30pm 75
Nutrition & Obesity Section Business Meeting 5:30pm-6:30pm unknown
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Clinical Symposium: Bariatric Endoscopy: Not Just for Complications Anymore
Speakers: Philip R. Schauer, Sreenivasa S. Jonnalagadda, John A. Martin		 8:30am-10:00am 275
Research Symposium: Intestinal Rehabilitation: Emerging Mechanisms for Expanding the Intestinal Epithelium
Speakers: Helen Raybould, Patricia L. Brubaker, Tracy Grikscheit		 10:30am-12:00pm 65
Clinical Symposium: Parenteral Nutrition-Associated Liver Disease (PNALD)
Speakers: Olivier Goulet, Alan L. Buchman, Raffaele Girlanda		 2:15pm-3:45pm 50
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Research Forum: Nutritional Regulation of Intestinal Function 8:30am-10:00am 25

Each June, N&O section descriptors are reviewed to optimize scientific relevance and minimize overlapping topics with other AGA Institute Sections and to encourage both clinical research and basic science abstract submissions. The current list of abstract descriptors is as follows. (N&O descriptors may change as we go forward to DDW 2011.) We would like to thank our abstract review Committee Chairs and members for generously sharing their expertise and time in order to ensure that the most novel and relevant developments in Nutrition and Obesity were shared at DDW.

Descriptor Name Abstracts Received Abstract Review Chair Abstract Reviewers
Nutritional Support: Nutritional Assessment, Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition, Oral Nutritional Supplements 21 Mark Delegge Stephen McClave, Kishore Iyer, Sandeep Gupta
Short Bowel Syndrome and Intestinal Transplantation 7 Mark Delegge Stephen McClave, Kishore Iyer, Sandeep Gupta
Nutrients and Gut Function: Cell Signaling, Immunity, Gene Expression, Nutrigenomics, Proteomics 8 Mark Worthington Mark Musch, James Fleet, Dennis Black
Nutrient Absorption, Malabsorption, Transport, and Metabolism, Metabolomics, Malnutrition 14 Mark Worthington Mark Musch, James Fleet, Dennis Black
Vitamins, Minerals, Micronutrients, and Herbal and Alternative Therapies 7 Tim Lipman Gerard Mullin, Ron Koretz, Alan Shenkin
Nutrition, Obesity and Cancer 13 Tim Lipman Gerard Mullin, Ron Koretz, Alan Shenkin
Obesity: Clinical: Medical and Pharmacological Management 5 Lee Kaplan Jeanette Newton-Keith, Eric Hungness, John Martin
Obesity: Clinical: Endoscopic and Surgical Management 17 Lee Kaplan Jeanette Newton-Keith, Eric Hungness, John Martin
Obesity: Basic: Regulation of Food Intake, Satiety, Animal Models, Pre-clinical Trials 15 Gyorgy Baffy H. Christian Weber, Efi Kokkotou, Graham J. Dockray, Giamila Fantuzzi
Prebiotics and Probiotics (Cross-section descriptor) 4 Karen Madsen Andrew Gewirtz, Elena Verdu, Martin Floch

Section leaders will review committee membership this summer for abstract review committees to confirm the final composition for DDW 2011 committees.

Members interested in participating in the various activities of the Section should contact us at the addresses below. We are particularly interested in increasing participation by junior investigators/clinicians and international members at this time.

If you are interested in serving as a reviewer for any of our abstract descriptors, please let us know. Please cite the abstract descriptor for which you would be interested in reviewing.

Please submit your invaluable ideas about the topics and invited speakers that you would like to hear at next year's DDW. The more specific you can be, the better (title, individual talks, speakers, learning objectives). Please forward your suggestions to John Whiton, AGA Institute by July 6, 2010.

This year the Nutrition and Obesity Section is considering submitting a proposal for the James W. Freston Single Topic Conference funded by the Takeda Endowment. This conference is typically basic or translational and will be held in Chicago in the Fall of 2012.

Past and pending symposia in this series are as follows:

  • Host-Microbial Interactions in Digestive Health and Disease, March 24-26 2006
  • Stem Cells in Gastrointestinal Development, Regeneration and Neoplasia, September 8-9, 2006
  • GI Response to Injury, October 3-6, 2007
  • AGA Institute/ANMS Course on Gastroparesis and Functional Dyspepsia, January 16-17, 2009
  • Celiac Disease: Broadening Horizons, September 11-12, 2009
  • GI Response to Injury, September 28- October 2, 2010
  • Oncology for the Gastroenterologist: Horizons for the Future, October 14-15, 2011

Please recommend new descriptors for abstracts.

The deadline for submitting a proposal is January 2011: send your ideas for a nutrition based 2 day meeting directly to Alan Buchman

Thank you for your continuing strong support of the Nutrition and Obesity Section.

Sincerely,

Alan L. Buchman, MD, MSPH, AGAF
Chair, N&O Section, AGA Institute Council

Kelly A. Tappenden, PhD, RD
Vice-Chair, N&O Section, AGA Institute Council