International:
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
5. Chair: Obesity Oral Session, 17th European Meeting on Hypertension, Milan, June15-17, 2007
6. The Renin-Angiotensin in Obesity, 71st Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japanese Circulation Society, Kobe, Japan, March 15-17, 2007
7. Keynote Lecture, Plenary Session: Biennial Meeting of the South African Hypertension Society, 26th to 28th May 2007
8. Lecture: Plenary Session: Visceral Obesity and Cardiometabolic Risks, 15th European Congress on Obesity, Budapest, Hungary, April 22-25, 2007
9. Lecture: Relationship between CKD and CVD: Updates in Target Organ Protection and Cardiovascular Risk Reduction, National Kidney Foundation's 2007 Clinical Meetings, Orlando, April 11, 2007 (DECLINED)
10. Lecture: Obesity and cardiovascular risk, 17th International Postgraduate Course on Cardiovascular Disease, Davos, Switzerland, February 12-16, 2007
11. Case discussions: 17th International Postgraduate Course on Cardiovascular Disease, Davos, Switzerland, February 12-16, 2007
12. Lecture: The Adipocyte as an Endocrine Organ, 1st Portuguese Congress on Hypertension, Algarve, Portugal, February 8-11, 2007 (DECLINED)
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
5. CAG/CASL Postgraduate course, Medical management of obesity, Canadian Digestive Disease Week, Banff, February 16-20, 2007
6. Chairman: Obesity: Complications and Consequences, 3rd Annual Endocrinology Canada International Symposium: Endocrinology, Metabolism and Oncology, Toronto, November 16-17, 2006
7. Meet the Prof luncheon: Approaches to the treatment of obesity, 3rd Annual Endocrinology Canada International Symposium: Endocrinology, Metabolism and Oncology, Toronto, November 16-17, 2006
8. Speaker: Definitions and practical approaches to obesity, 3rd Annual Endocrinology Canada International Symposium: Endocrinology, Metabolism and Oncology, Toronto, November 16-17, 2006
9. Plenary lecture: The Metabolic Syndrome and the Canadian Obesity Network. Federal Food Safety and Nutrition Research Meeting, Ottawa, Ontario, October 2006.
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