Full Committee Hearing Childhood Obesity: Beginning the Dialogue on Reversing the Epidemic

Senate Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions Date: Thursday, March 4, 2010 Time: 10:00 AM Location: SD-430

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Witnesses

Panel I

  1. Regina M. Benjamin, MD, MBA
    Surgeon General
    U.S. Department of Health & Humans Services
    Washington, DC

Panel II

  1. Joe Thompson, MD, MPH
    Director
    Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity
    Little Rock, AR
  2. Sandra Hassink, MD
    Chair
    American Academy of Pediatrics Obesity Leadership Workgroup
    Wilmington, DE
  3. Rashard Mendenhall
    Pittsburgh Steelers Running Back
    National Football League
    Pittsburgh, PA

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