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Seminar 1

Seminar 1: “Allergy and Obesity”

Tuesday the 11th of November 2008 from 13.00-16.00
At  Chr. Hansen’s Auditorium E, Bøge Allé 10-12, Hørsholm

Winter School 2008-09: “The role of the gastrointestinal tract for development of allergy and obesity”

Time

Subject

Speaker

13.00-13.15

Introduction to the Winter school

Anders Permin, DVM, Head of Department, Center for Environment and Toxicology, DHI

13.15-13.45

Allergy: Prevalence; identification of focus areas within prevention

Lise Lotte Husemoen, PhD, Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup

13.45-14.00

Allergy: Risk factors and results from COPSAC

Klaus Bønnelykke, MD, PhD stud., Copenhagen University Hospital, Gentofte

14.00-14.30

Coffee break

 

14.30-15.20

Obesity: Prevalence, causality and treatment

Søren Toubro, MD, Head of Research Clinic of Nutrition

15.20-15.50

Recent status on the potential link between asthma, allergy and obesity

Betina Thuesen, PhD-stud., Head of Research, Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup

15.50-16.00

Summing up and final discussion

Anders Permin, DVM, Head of Department, Center for Environment and Toxicology, DHI

Relevant literature:

Participation is open for all interested and is free of charge. Register online on www.oresundfood.org, or contact Susanne Knoth (suk@dhigroup.com, +4551572031) or Mie Bendtsen (mib@oresundfood.org, +4528754092) no later than November 6th. Language will be decided on the day of the seminar based on the participants.