1. Speaker: Which treatment for metabolic syndrome? Selected Topics in Hypertension, Sattelite Meeting Brescia, 17th European Meeting on Hypertension, Milan, June15-17, 2007

2. Speaker: Reducing cardiometabolic risk, Obesity Topical Workshop, 17th European Meeting on Hypertension, Milan, June15-17, 2007

3. Speaker: Medical and surgical management of obesity, Obesity and Hypertension Working Group, 17th European Meeting on Hypertension, Milan, June15-17, 2007

4. Speaker: Blood pressure changes with sibutramine versus placebo in randoized, double-blind controlled trials: a retrospective analysis. 17th European Meeting on Hypertension, Milan, June15-17, 2007

1. Organizer and Faculty: 2st Canadian Obesity Network Summer Boot Camp, Dushesnay, Quebec, July 31- August 8, 2007

2. Establishing a clinical weight management program: what can we learn from adults? National Think Tank for Health Services Delivery and Research in Pediatric Weight Management, Edmonton, AB, April 16, 2007

3. Obesity treatment in adults implications for childhood obesity, McMaster Children's Hospital Nutrition Days, Hamilton, February 24, 2007

4. Obesity and the metabolic syndrome, American College of Physicians, Ontario Chapter, Toronto, February 24, 2007

Incentives help workers lose weight on the job
03 Sep 2007
Dr. Arya Sharma, of the Canadian Obesity Network, says the program is an interesting one. "There is some evidence it may produce some lasting weight loss in ...


Governments must fight obesity with major investment into ...
The Canadian Press, HAMILTON -16 Aug 2007"In the last 10 years there has been increasing awareness that we truly have an obesity epidemic," said Sharma, noting the skyrocketing ranks of those who ...


Capital Health lands obesity top gun
Edmonton Sun,  Canada - 11 Aug 2007
Sharma said treating obesity is a challenge and most Canadian doctors really have no obesity treatment. "That's why we end up just treating all the ...


Obesity epidemic lacks funding
London Free Press, Canada - 17 Aug 2007
... but current funding levels aren't nearly enough to help them, said Arya Sharma, scientific director for the Canadian Obesity Network. ...