Need for action to prevent obesity in youth

15th STATE OF THE ART Adolescent Health / Congress G.S.A.M.

SPONSORED SESSION, Kindly Sponsored by Novo Nordisk

Chairs: Andromachi Vryonidou-Bompota, Yannis Manios

Speakers:

Overweight and obesity conditions in youth

Evangelia Charmandari

Obesity in adolescence: The role of clinical assessment, ethical family interventions and management of obesity

Maria Karantza-Charoni

Youth Council Participation: Vasia Daniil

Speakers

Vryonidou-Bompota Andromachi

Director of Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Red Cross Hospital, Athens; President of the Hellenic Endocrine Society

«Chair»

Manios Yannis

MMedSci, MPhil, PhD, Professor, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece

«Chair»

Charmandari Evangelia

Professor of Pediatrics - Pediatric & Adolescent Endocrinology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, ‘Aghia Sophia’ Children’s Hospital, Athens, Greece

«Speaker»

Karantza-Charoni Maria

Dr., Director of the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Mitera Children’s Hospital, Athens, Greece

«Speaker»