Programme
| 08:30 –09:30 | Coffee/Registration |
| 09:30 –09:40 | Welcome Address and Introduction Mr Gianluca Bonanomi, Symposium Director, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital London |
| 09:40 –10:00 | How will the International Diabetes Federation statement change the future? Prof Sir George Alberti, University of Newcastle/Imperial College London |
| Morning Session: The Medical Approach to Obesity | |
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| Chairs: James Ahlquist (Royal Society of Medicine), Michael Feher (Chelsea and Westminster) | |
| 10:00–10:20 | Obesity: What is the challenge for the community? Dr David Haslam, Chairman, National Obesity Forum |
| 10:20–10:40 | Which patients stand to gain most from obesity treatment? Dr Simon Aylwin, King's College London |
| 10:40–11:00 | What is the current status of obesity and diabetes treatment? Prof John Wilding, University of Liverpool |
| 11:00–11:20 | How can healthcare systems afford obesity and diabetes treatment? Mr Mike Lander, Commissioner South East Coast England |
| 11:20–11:40 | Coffee |
| Morning Session: Novel Therapeutic Approaches to Obesity | |
| Chairs: Bobby Prasad (Chelsea and Westminster), Kevin Shotliff (Chelsea and Westminster) | |
| 11:40–12:00 | Is the magic medicine on the horizon? Prof Steve Bloom, Imperial College London |
| 12:00–12:20 | Can obesity be treated using an endoscope? Dr Christopher Thompson, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA |
| 12:20–12:50 | Panel discussion Martin Benson (C&W), Shamil Chandaria (NOF), Bobby Prasad (C&W), Julian Teare (Imperial), Christopher Thompson (USA), John Wilding (Liverpool) |
| 12:50–13:50 | Lunch |
| Afternoon Session: The Surgical Approach to Obesity | |
| Chairs: Ahmed R. Ahmed (Imperial), Evangelos Efthimiou (Chelsea and Westminster) | |
| 13:50–14:00 | The future of obesity treatment: how can we influence policy makers? Prof Mike Larvin, Royal College of Surgeons |
| 14:00–14:20 | What are the long term outcomes of bariatric surgery? The good, the bad and the ugly. Dr Nicolas Christou, McGill University, Montreal, Canada |
| 14:20–14:40 | What clinical evidence do we need to move bariatric and metabolic surgery forward? Dr Philip R Schauer, Cleveland Clinic, USA |
| 14:40–14:55 | What does basic science today predict for future obesity treatments? Dr Carel le Roux, Imperial College London |
| 14:55–15:20 | Panel discussion Nicolas Christou (Canada), David Kerrigan (Liverpool), Jean-Marc Chevalier (France), Philip R Schauer (USA), James Smellie (C&W), Jeremy Thompson (C&W) |
| 15:20–15:40 | Coffee |
| Debate: Obesity is the Question: What will be the answer—a tablet, an endoscopy or a scalpel? | |
| Chairs: Gianluca Bonanomi (Chelsea and Westminster), Carel le Roux (Imperial) | |
| 15:40–16:40 | Medical Motion Prof Nicholas Finer, University College London Endoluminal Motion Dr Christopher Thompson, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA Surgical Motion Mr Alberic Fiennes, President, British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society |
| 16:40–17:00 | Recommendations and closing remarks |
