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Lifestyle Medicine in Latin America & The Caribbean

From February 23, 2024 18:00 until February 25, 2024 18:00
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Friday February 23rd, 2024 - Day 1

 

From  Subject Speaker
8:00 - 8:30 Registration  
8:30 - 8:40 Official opening of the Inaugural Conference
"Lifestyle Medicine in Latin America & the Caribbean"
 Bob Pinedo (Curaçao)
8:40 - 8:50  INTRO TO SESSION 1:
HEALTH GOVERNANCE OF NCD'S IN THE LAC REGION
Chair: Rifat Atun (USA)
<tba> (PAHO)
8:50 - 9:15

Health equity/inequality

 
9:15 - 9:40  What is Public Health: a Dutch Caribbean view Izzy Gerstenbluth (Curaçao)
9:40 - 10:10

Break

 
10:10 - 10.35 Social Determinants of Public Health Ana Diez-Roux (USA)
10:35 - 11:00  From implementation research to policy change: the role of politics Adolfo Rubinstein (Argentina)
11:00 - 11:25 Teaching Public Health Gilberto Schwartsmann (Brazil)
11:25 - 11:55 Why are there so many centenarians in Martinique?
What are the costs and benefits of this for the Island?
Michel Poulain (Belgium)
Jean Crusol (Martinique)
11:55 - 12:25 Panel discussion Chair: Paulo Buss (Brazil) | Ingemar Merkies (Curaçao) & Speakers
12:25 - 13:00 The Endothelium Eduardo Barbosa (Brazil)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 14:10 INTRO TO SESSION 2: COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO CVD PREVENTION Chair: Salim Yusuf (Canada), Vilma Irazola (Argentina)
14:10 - 14:35 Fighting hypertension in LMIC: Role of implementation science & the HEARTSInitiative for the Americas Vilma Irazola (Argentina)
14:35 - 15:00 Implementing multicomponent interventions to control (Pre)-Hypertension in poor populations Manuel Ramirez-Zea (Guatemala)
15:00 - 15:30 Break  
15:30 - 15:55 Environmental factors
and their influence on health behaviors, risk factors diseases
Salim Yusuf (Canada)
15:55 - 16:25 Panel discussion Chair: Salim Yusuf (Canada) | Claudio Majul (Argentina), RoderikKraaijenhagen (Netherlands) & Speakers
16:25 - 17:00 Health system reform and innovation for better outcomes Rifat Atun (USA)
17:00 - 17:10 Closing of Conference Day 1 David Khayat (France)

 

Saturday February 24th, 2024 Day 2

 

From - To Subject Speaker
8:30 - 8:35  INTRO TO SESSION 3: LIFESTYLE MEDICINE (LM) Chair: Edward Phillips (USA), Ioan Hanes (Belgium)
8:35 - 9:00 Exercise medicine

Edward Phillips, Harvard (USA)

9:00 - 9:25 Sexual Health and Lifestyle Medicine Ioan Hanes (Belgium)
9:25 - 9:55 Break including Poster Session  
9:55 - 10:00 INTRO TO SESSION 4: LIFESTYLE MEDICINE & RESP. DISEASES Chair: Jose Perez-Padilla (Mexico), Carlos Torres-Duque(Colombia)
10:00 - 10:25 Respiratory impact of household pollution Carlos Torres-Duque (Colombia)
10:25 - 10:50 Pre-COPD Jose Perez-Padilla (Mexico)
10:50 - 11:15 Impact of COPD on public health of Latin America and future perspectives Maria Montes de Oca (Venezuela)
11:15 - 11:45 Panel discussion on Smoking cessation Chair: Peter Harper (UK) | David Khayat (France); Hugo Caballero(Colombia) & Speakers
11:45 - 12:20 Nutrition and the Microbiome Jeremy Lim (Singapore)
12:20 - 12:55 Environmental carcinogens John Groopman (USA)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch including Poster Session  
14:00 - 14:10 INTRO TO SESSION 5: CANCER PREVENTION Chair: Louiz Santini (Brazil), Ashley Duits
(Curaçao)
14:10 - 14:35 Genetic causes of cancer in the Caribbean Olefunmilayo Olopade (USA)
14:35 - 15:00 Population screening in Curaçao Bob Pinedo (Curaçao), Louise Elstak (Curaçao)
15:00 - 15:30 Break including Poster Session  
15:30 - 15:55 Information system for early detection Luiz Santini (Brazil)
15:55 - 16:25 The Latin American Code Against Cancer Eduardo Cazap (Argentina)
16:25 - 17:00 Panel discussion Chair: David Khayat (France) | Efrain Cambronero (Costa Rica),Keith Britton(Panama), Evelien Dekker (Netherlands) & Speakers
17:00 - 17:10 Closing of Conference Day 2 Peter Harper (UK)

Sunday February 25th, 2024 Day 3

 

From - To Subject Speaker
8:30 - 8:40 

INTRO TO SESSION 6: NUTRITION & OVERWEIGHT

Chair: Juan Rivera Dommarco (Mexico), Camila Corvalan(Chile)
8:40 - 9:05 Hidden nutritional challenges in combatting obesity in the Caribbean

Fitzroy Henry (Jamaica)

9:05 - 9:30

Barbados School Nutrition Policy

Hedda Phillips-Boyce (Barbados)
9:30 - 9:55 Experimental Nutritional Interventions in Rural Guatemala Fernanda Kroker-Lobos (Guatemala)
9:55 - 10:25 Break including Poster Session  
10:25 - 10:50 Food labeling & school nutrition in Chile Camila Corvalan (Chile)
10:50 - 11:15 Diet, Cancer & Cardiometabolic Diseases Juan Rivera Dommarco (Mexico)
11:15 - 11:40 Overweight in poverty areas & immigrants in The Netherlands Jaap Seidell (Netherlands)
11:40 - 12:10 The need for a comprehensive and balanced approach to obesity prevention and control Dr. Simón Barquera (Mexico)
12:10 - 12:55 The Nutrition Transition: Dynamics and potential for slowing down or reversing the current pattern Barry Popkin (USA)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch including Poster Session  
14:00 - 14:10 INTRO SESSION 7: DIABETES Chair: Antonio Chacra (Brazil), Hanno Pijl (Netherlands)
14:10 - 14:35 Lifestyle Medicine for the Prevention and Treatment of Diabetes Hanno Pijl (Netherlands)
14:35 - 15:00 Pre-diabetes in Adolescents Antonio Chacra (Brazil)
15:00 - 15:30 Break including Poster Session  
15:30 - 15:55 Obesity & Diabetes Monica Manrique (Chile)
15:55 - 16:45 Panel discussion: Overweight & Diabetes Chair: Juan Rivera Dommarco (Mexico) | Hanno Pijl (Netherlands), Jhony de la Cruz-Vargas (Peru), Manuel Ramirez-Zea (Guatemala )& Speakers
16:45 - 17:00 Closing of the Conference Bob Pinedo (Curaçao)

Day 2 & 3 (breaks & lunch) - Poster session

 

  Topic Lead
 

Lifestyle physical activity, breast cancer prevention, and mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis

Jhony A. De La Cruz-Vargas (Peru)
  The relationship between metabolic syndrome and BPH: case-control study in Peruvian military hospital 

Manuel Vela Ruiz (Peru)

  Post-natal overfeeding and obesity later predisposition: a preclinical study 

Stephen van Heiningen (Curaçao) 

  Colorectal cancer screening: interviews with the target population 

Shacara Blake (Curaçao) 

  Colorectal cancer screening

Jacqueline Hugtenburg (Curaçao)

  Quality control of cancer screening

Soraya Verstraeten (Curaçao)

  Fraction of cancer attributable to lifestyle and environmental factors in Peru prior to COVID-19pandemic

Jhony A. De La Cruz-Vargas (Peru)

  Associations between metabolic phenotypes and breast cancer risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Victor Vera Ponce (Peru)

 

 

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