Friday, August 24th, 2007 Convention Centre, Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá
INAUGURAL SESSION
8:00 – 8:15
Opening Ceremony
8:15 – 9:00
Opening Conference:
“Healthy eating and active living: A public health priority" Enrique Jacoby(USA)
Regional Advisor, Healthy Eating & Active Living
Noncommunicable Diseases Unit, HDM/NC
Pan American Health Organization PAHO/WHO, Washington.
9:00 – 9:30
“Nutrition and diet in disease prevention” Gerdi Weidner (Alemania)
Vice President and Director of Research at the Preventive Medicine Research Institute (PMRI).
Professor of Psychology and Preventive Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
9:30 – 10:00
“Dietary changes and factors on Cancer prevention” Moshe Shike(USA)
Attending physician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York.
10:00 – 10:30
“Genes, cancer, enviroment and eHealth” Helena Groot (Colombia)
Director Human Genetics Laboratory, Biological Science
Divition, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá.
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30
“Physical activity, health and disease” John Duperly (Colombia)
Attending physician at Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá, Bogotá DC.
INAUGURAL SESSION
