AGENDA

9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks

9:30 a.m. Science Panel (break scheduled at 11:00)

Anthony Almada, B.Sc., M.Sc., IMAGINutrition, Inc./MetaResponse Sciences
George Blackburn, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
Denise Bruner, M.D., American Society of Bariatric Physicians
Harry Greene, M.D., Slim Fast Foods Company, Partnership for Healthy WeightManagement
Steven Heymsfield, M.D., St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University College of Physicians
Van Hubbard, M.D., Ph.D., National Institutes of Health
Judith Stern, S.M., Sc.D., University of California-Davis
Lawrence Stifler, Ph.D., Health Management Resources
Thomas Wadden, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Susan Yanovski, M.D., National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health

12:00 Noon Lunch Break

1:30 p.m. Remarks

1:45 p.m. Industry Panel

Brad Bearnson, Icon Health & Fitness, Inc.
John Cordaro, Council for Responsible Nutrition
Andrea Levine, National Advertising Division, Council of Better Business Bureaus
Michael McGuffin, American Herbal Products Association
Lisa Myers, Electronic Retailing Association
David Seckman, National Nutritional Foods Association
Lewis Shender, Jenny Craig, Inc.
Harry Greene, M.D., Slim Fast Foods Company, Partnership for Healthy WeightManagement

3:00 p.m. Break

3:15 p.m. Media Panel

John Kimball, Newspaper Association of America
Ellen Levine, Good Housekeeping
Don McLemore, New Hope Media
Will Norton, College of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Nebraska
Michael Pashby, Magazine Publishers of America
Joseph Ostrow, Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau
Herbert Rotfeld, Department of Marketing, Auburn University
Frederick Schauer, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

4:30 p.m. Closing Remark

J. Howard Beales, III, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission

Federal Trade Commission Protecting America's Consumers