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ESPE Obesity Working Group

Aims

It is the aim of the ESPE Obesity Working Group (OWG) to study juvenile obesity. Within this scope we aim to bring together clinical as well as experimental research groups to join in collaborative research and analyses on aspects of juvenile obesity, including clinical management, consequences, and etiology of obesity.

Co-ordinator

Antje Körner – Germany

Members

Ze'ev Hochberg - Israel
Alexander Kurtev – Bulgaria
Claire Levy-Marshal - France
Claudio Maffeis – Italy
Ewa Malecka-Tendera - Poland
Claude Marcus - Sweden
Bessie Spiliotis - Greece
Maite Tauber - France
Edgar Van Mil - The Netherlands

Organisation & coordination of the working group

The OWG is headed by a steering committee with the above named members. The chair of the OWG is elected upon proposal for two years. The OWG is free to everybody, including international (non-European) collaborations.

Planned activities for the next 2 to 3 years

The perspective is to advocate a translational interdisciplinary and international approach for the systematic study of childhood obesity spanning from basic science to genetic aspects, to epidemiological and clinical studies finally to clinical management.

To achieve this, we will start stepwise action:

  1. Identify reliable collaborators
  2. Collect information and data about research, management and phenogypes of collaborators
  3. Collect existing data on phenotypes and/or cohorts; establish registry
  4. a) Synchronise phenotyping based on agreed matrix
    b) develop a biological sample base
    for scientific exploitation
  5. longitudinally follow-up

Meetings

Annually during the ESPE meeting.