BNORC Annual Symposium sponsored by the Enrichment Program of the Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center
COVID-19, Nutrition, and Obesity
8:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Zoom
“The changing face of epidemiology during COVID-19. Lessons learned and opportunities for BNORC investigators”
Jorge E. Chavarro, MD, ScD
Associate Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Department of Nutrition, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
“Does Vitamin D Reduce the Risk of COVID-19?”
JoAnn E. Manson, MD, MPH, DrPH
Chief, Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Professor of Medicine and the Michael and Lee Bell Professor of Women's Health, Harvard Medical School, Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
“A perfect storm: Obesity and influenza infection and implications for COVID-19”
Melinda A. Beck, PhD
Associate Chair for Academics, Professor, Nutrition, University of North Carolina, Gillings School of Global Public Health
“Obesity, Age and COVID-19 Disease”
Anthony Ferrante Jr, MD, PhD
Tilden-Weger-Bieler Professor of Medicine and Chief of Preventive Medicine & Nutrition, Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center, Columbia University