No 1, Session 2003-04 9 December 2003
EVIDENCE SESSION: Inquiry into Obesity
The Health Committee has arranged the following meeting, to be held in public:
Thursday 18 December 2003 in the Wilson Room, Portcullis House, at 10:30 am.
Oral evidence from:
Dr Ian Campbell, Chair, National Obesity Forum
Dr Colin Waine, Visiting Professor of Primary and Community Care, University of Sunderland
Dr Nick Finer, Hon.Consultant Physician in Obesity Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital NHS Trust
Professor John N Baxter, Professor of Surgery and consultant surgeon, University of Wales Swansea, Secretary of the British Obesity Surgery Society
Dympna Pearson, Chair, Dieticians in Obesity Management (UK), British Dietetic Association
At 11:20 am:
Professor Iain Broom, Consultant in Clinical Biochemistry and Metabolic Medicine, Grampian University Hospitals Trust, Principal Investigator, Counterweight Project
Louise Mann, Practice Nurse, Gable House Surgery
Amanda Avery, Community Dietician, Greater Derby Primary Care Trust
Sally Hayes/ Emma Croft, Leeds North West PCT
At 12:10 pm:
Paula Hunt, Nutritionist and Dietician, Weightwatchers
Jacquie Lavin, Dietician, Slimming World
Jackie Cox, Joint Chair, The Obesity Awareness and Solutions Trust (TOAST)
Dr Helen Truby , Senior Lecturer, University of Surrey, Principal Investigator for the BBC Diet Trials
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The Health Committee is a Select Committee of the House of Commons. It is appointed under Standing Order No. 152 to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department of Health and associated public bodies. The Committee has power to send for persons, papers and records.