Skip to main content
NUTRITION 2023 Main banner
Icon Legend
This session is not in your schedule.
This session is in your schedule. Click again to remove it.
Back

Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/Metabolism

Clinical and Translational Nutrition
Session Type: Award Lecture

2023 George Bray Outstanding Scientific Achievements Award in Obesity Research: Adipose Tissue Metabolism in Human Obesity

Monday, July 24, 2023
4:00 PM – 5:35 PM ET
Location: Grand Ballroom

CPE for RDs CME

Learning Objectives

At the end of this activity, learners will be able to:
  • Describe the effects of insulin on the regulation of adipose tissue lipolysis
  • Explain how upper body obesity affects the ability of insulin to regulate adipose tissue lipolysis
  • Recognize the markers of adipose tissue inflammation and how they relate to lipolysis and obesity

      • Speaker(s)

    • Michael Jensen, MD

      Professor of medicine
      Mayo Clinic
      Rochester, Minnesota, United States

      Disclosure(s): Biohaven Pharmaceuticals: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
      Medality: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
      Seattle Gummy Company: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)

    • Zhaoping Li, MD, PhD

      Professor
      Center for Human Nutrition, David Geffen School of Medicine
      Center for Human Nutrition, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
      Los Angeles, California, United States

      Disclosure(s): WiseCode Nutrition Institute: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)

    • Shuhao Lin, MS, RD

      PhD candidate
      University of Illinois Chicago
      Chicago, Illinois, United States

      Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

    • SO

      Semira Ortiz, PhD (she/her/hers)

      Graduate Research Fellow
      Cornell University
      Ithaca, New York, United States

      Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

    Disclosure(s):
    Michael Jensen, MD: Biohaven Pharmaceuticals: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
    Medality: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
    Seattle Gummy Company: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
    Zhaoping Li, MD, PhD: WiseCode Nutrition Institute: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
    Shuhao Lin, MS, RD: No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
    Semira R. Ortiz, PhD: No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

    The George Bray Outstanding Scientific Achievements Award in Obesity Research is presented to a physician, clinician or investigator who has made a significant lifetime contribution to the field of obesity research. This award is designed to recognize an individual whose lifetime body of work includes meaningful contributions and/or demonstration of highly original, sustained, and reproducible scholarship that has made major contributions to the understanding of the causes, treatment and/or prevention of obesity. This award is endowed by Dr. George A. Bray and his wife, Marilyn M. Bray.

    Presentations:

    • 4:00 PM – 4:05 PM ET
      Introduction to the 2023 George Bray Outstanding Scientific Achievements Award in Obesity Research

      Speaker: Zhaoping Li, MD, PhD – Center for Human Nutrition, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

    • 4:05 PM – 4:45 PM ET
      Adipose Tissue Metabolism in Human Obesity

      Speaker: Michael Jensen, MD – Mayo Clinic

    • 4:45 PM – 4:50 PM ET
      Q&A with Dr. Jensen

      Speaker: Michael Jensen, MD – Mayo Clinic

    • 4:50 PM – 4:55 PM ET
      Introduction to the 2023 George Bray Student Awards

      Speaker: Zhaoping Li, MD, PhD – Center for Human Nutrition, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

    • 4:55 PM – 5:10 PM ET
      Time Restricted Eating Without Calorie Counting for Weight Loss in a Racially Diverse Population: A 12-Month Randomized Controlled Trial

      Speaker: Shuhao Lin, MS, RD – University of Illinois Chicago

    • 5:10 PM – 5:05 PM ET
      Questions with Shuhao Lin

      Speaker: Shuhao Lin, MS, RD – University of Illinois Chicago

    • 5:15 PM – 5:30 PM ET
      Erythritol Synthesis Is Elevated by Oxidative Stress in Muscle Myotubes

      Speaker: Semira R. Ortiz, PhD (she/her/hers) – Cornell University

    • 5:30 PM – 5:35 PM ET
      Questions with Semira Ortiz

      Speaker: Semira R. Ortiz, PhD (she/her/hers) – Cornell University