BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250710T162654EDT-78050KTk8P@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250710T202654Z DESCRIPTION:Soren Harnois-Leblanc\, RD\, PhD\n\nPostdoctoral Fellow |\n Harv ard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Harvard Medical School\n\nWHERE: Hyb rid | 2001 黑料不打烊 College\, Rm 1140 | Zoom \n\nNOTE: Dr. Harnois-Leblanc w ill be presenting from Boston\n\nAbstract\n\nPediatric obesity remains a m ajor public health problem\, with 27% of Canadian children and adolescents overweight. Obesity in childhood continues into adulthood\, and in adults it is a major factor in healthcare spending\, accounting for 3% of the Ca nadian healthcare budget. Given the complications and costs associated wit h obesity\, the best approach is prevention. To achieve this\, we need hig h quality longitudinal evidence on risk factors and on development pattern s of obesity and associated complications. In this presentation\, I will d iscuss my work on the developmental trajectories of obesity and type 2 dia betes during childhood and adolescence\, as well as the roles of lifestyle habits and psychological factors in the development of these diseases usi ng data from Canadian and US cohorts.\n\nLearning Objectives\n\nAt the com pletion of this talk\, attendees will:\n\n\n Become acquainted with methods for representing developmental trajectories in cardiometabolic health\;\n Have a better understanding of potential factors associated with the devel opment of pediatric obesity and type 2 diabetes\;\n Learn about new methods for strengthening evidence in observational studies.\n\n\nSpeaker Bio\n\n Soren Harnois-Leblanc is a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse (CORAL) at Harvard Pilgrim Health C are Institute/Harvard Medical School supported by American Diabetes Associ ation and Pyle Fellowships. She investigates the role of dietary habits on diabetes risk markers from early childhood to late adolescence in the Pro ject Viva cohort using causal inference methods. Before this fellowship\, she earned her PhD in Public Health with a specialization in Epidemiology at Universit茅 de Montr茅al and did a 1-year fellowship in health economy an d epidemiology at 黑料不打烊 University focusing on healthcare costs of pediat ric obesity. More broadly\, her research focuses on the prevention of obes ity\, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease in at-risk children and c hildren from the general population.\n\n聽\n DTSTART:20240205T210000Z DTEND:20240205T220000Z SUMMARY:Leveraging Data for Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Prevention in Child ren: New Insights from Pediatric Cohorts URL:/epi-biostat-occh/channels/event/leveraging-data-o besity-and-type-2-diabetes-prevention-children-new-insights-pediatric-coho rts-354166 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR