About the Society

ESPE Working Groups

ESPE Obesity Club (EOC)

Aims

The mission is to be the working group in the field of childhood obesity through promoting excellence in obesity related research, fostering integration of clinical and basic science and facilitating the translation of our science to join research projects and clinical practice. This goal will be achieved through advancing active research, especially based on wide-scale collaboration, and by promoting knowledge and education, in order to optimize care of obese patients within the paediatric age range.

Names of proponents

Chaussain, J.L. - France
De Beaufort, C. - Luxemburg
Delemarre-van de Waal, H.A. - The Netherlands
De Schepper, J. - Belgium
Felius, B - The Netherlands
Frelut, M.L. - France
Gregory, J.W. - UK
Hochberg, Z. - Israel
Kiess, W. - Germany
Kocova, M. - Macedonia
Koettner, A. - Germany
Kurtev, A. - Bulgaria
Malecka-Tendera, E. - Poland
Marcus, C. - Sweden
Matusik, P. - Poland
Peterkova, V. - Russia
Tato, L. - Italy
Tauber, M. - France
Van Mil, E.G.A.H. - The Netherlands
Wabitsch, M. - Germany
Zetterstrom, R. - Sweden
Zuckerman, N. - Israel

Committee Members

Chairperson/Coordinator: Edgar G.A.H. van Mil, MD, PhD
Secretary: Dept of Paediatrics, Jeroen Bosch Medical Centre, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

Organisation & coordination of the working group

The chair of the working group is located at the subdivision pediatric endocrinology of the department of Pediatrics at the VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2007 report of the ESPE working group on obesity (ESPE Obesity club (EOC))

On Wednesday June 27, 2007, the EOC presented it's 4th working group meeting at the venue of the 46th ESPE meeting in Finland, Helsinki. The theme of the meeting was entitled: 'Management of Juvenile Morbid Obesity: the Need for a Collaborative Effort towards Consensus' and was organised by the Henriette Delemarre -  van de Waal and Edgar Van Mil from the sub department of Paediatric Endocrinology from the VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

The EOC thankfully accepted the offered conference room and ICT support at the main ESPE meeting site. Because of the large attendance the conference room, offering 250 seats, turned out to be too small.
All speakers already planned to attend the main meeting, or were invited by the main meeting

  1. Uberto Pagotto (Bologna, Italy)
  2. Robert Lustig (San Fransisco, USA)
  3. Jovanna Dahlgren (Gothenburg, Sweden)

On June 29, the board of the EOC came together, where it was decided to transfer the coordination of the EOC from Henriette Delemarre - van de Waal to Edgar Van Mil, thereby transferring the Secretary of the EOC from Amsterdam to 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands. Finally, it was decided that the 5th EOC meeting will again be planned at the beginning of the coming ESPE meeting, the 47th congress in Istanbul, Turkey. The meeting theme will evolve around the subject 'the metabolic syndrome'.

Planned activities for the next 2 to 3 years

The following activities are proposed:

  1. The organization of symposia, preferably the day before the formal opening of the ESPE annual meeting in coordination with the POC . Collaboration with adult endocrinologists.
  2. The development of jointly projects which require wide-scale collaboration; the following ideas have been entertained
    • prophylactic intervention in children with hypothalamic obesity after craniopharyngioma surgery
    • metabolomics in morbidly obese children and adolescent
Meetings

Annual meetings before the official opening of the ESPE annual meeting.

Contact for further information

Edgar G.A.H. van Mil, MD, PhD
Paediatric Endocrinologist
Dept of Paediatrics
Jeroen Bosch Medical Centre
PO BOX 90153
5200 ME 's-Hertogenbosch
The Netherlands
T: +31 73 6992000
F: +31 73 6992948
E: e.g.vanmil@jbz.nl