Subcommittee Field Hearing Childhood Obesity: The Declining Health of America's Next Generation - National Problem, Southern Crisis

Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Meharry Medical College Library, 2nd Floor, Nashville, TN

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Witnesses

Panel I

  1. Susan R. Cooper, M.S.N., R.N.
    Commissioner
    Tennessee Department of Health
    Nashville, TN
  2. Shari Barkin, M.D., MSHS
    Director of Pediatric Obesity Research, Diabetes Research Training Center Professor of Pediatrics
    Monroe Carell, Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt
    Nashville, TN
  3. Susanne Tropez-Simms, M.D., M.P.H.
    Associate Dean of Clinical Affiliations and Professor of Pediatrics
    Meharry Medical College
    Nashville, TN
  4. David Griffin
    Participant
    Seson 4 of NBC's "The Biggest Loser"
    Cedar Hill, TN