Chairs

Steven Heymsfield, MD, Pennington Biomedical Research Center , Baton Rouge, LA
David Allison, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL

Presentations

• Propagation of obesity across generations: The roles of differential realized fertility and assortative mating by body mass index.  John Dawson, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL
• Mathematical models for predicting individual weight loss.  Diana Thomas, PhD, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
• KHB decomposition of effects in mediation models of obesity.  James Hardin, PhD, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC  
• Dynamic modeling of human metabolism and body composition change.  Kevin Hall, PhD, Laboratory of Biological Modeling, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD