The University of Vermont is presenting a symposium entitled "Nutrient
and Energy Metabolism in the Elderly: Basic Mechanisms to Integrative
Physiology" on September 15 - 16, 1997 at the Sheraton Hotel & Conference
Center in Burlington, Vermont.
This symposium, which is co-sponsored by the National Institute on Aging
and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases,
features keynote presentations by the following speakers:
- JORGE CALLES-ESCANDON, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, The
University of Vermont College of Medicine; Director, Fletcher Allen
Health Care Weight Management Clinic; Burlington, VT
- WILLIAM EVANS, PHD, Director of the Nutrition, Metabolism and Exercise
Unite and Professor of Geriatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical
Sciences, Little Rock, AR
- K. SREEKUMARAN NAIR, MD, PHD, Professor of Medicine, Mayon Medical
School, Rochester, MN
- ERIC T. POEHLMAN, PHD, Professor of Medicine, Physiology and
Nutritional Sciences, The University of Vermont College of Medicine,
Burlington, VT
- SUSAN ROBERTS, PHD, Associate Professor of Nutrition and Psychiatry and
Chief of Energy Metabolism Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition
Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Medford, MA
- BARBARA ROLLS, PHD, Professor of Nutritional Sciences and Guthrie Chair
in Nutrition, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
- RICHARD WEINDRUCH, PHD, Professor, Department of Medicine (Section of
Geriatrics and Gerontology), The University of Wisconsin-Madison;
Director, Aging Research Group, Wisconsin Regional Primate Center;
Madison, WI
For more information or to request a brochure, please call 800-639-3188
or 802-656-2088 or send an e-mail to mbaggs at zoo.uvm.edu
Posted by:
Jennifer Nachbur
Marketing Specialist
The University of Vermont Division of Continuing Education
