{"id":25766,"date":"2015-11-12T13:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T18:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=25766"},"modified":"2015-11-12T13:00:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T18:00:58","slug":"caroline-apovian-named-vp-of-the-obesity-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2015\/11\/12\/caroline-apovian-named-vp-of-the-obesity-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Caroline Apovian Named VP of The Obesity Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2015\/11\/COM-Apovian_Caroline_2014-e1447351214838.jpg\" alt=\"COM Apovian_Caroline_2014\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25777\" height=\"316\" width=\"250\" \/>Caroline M. Apovian, MD, was named vice president of The Obesity Society (TOS), a nonprofit scientific and educational organization dedicated to expanding research, prevention and treatment of obesity, and reducing discrimination affecting persons with obesity.\u00a0 Apovian, a professor of Medicine and Pediatrics who specializes in endocrinology, diabetes and nutrition, has been a member of the organization since 1992. She has served as a member of its Clinical Committee as well as secretary\/treasurer and on the Executive Committee from 2005-2008. Following her term as vice president, she will serve as president-elect next year and president the following year.<\/p>\n<p>The Obesity Society has more than 2,500 members including PhDs, MDs and RDs. It publishes <em>Obesity<\/em>, a peer-reviewed scientific journal, as well as a new journal, <em>Obesity Science &amp; Practice<\/em>.\u00a0 Its annual meeting, ObesityWeek, brings together more than 5,500 experts in obesity and features the latest research in the field.\u00a0 Recently, a new campaign called Treat Obesity Seriously was developed to encourage clinicians and policymakers to treat obesity like other serious health conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Submitted by Hannah K. Steere, MD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caroline M. Apovian, MD, was named vice president of The Obesity Society (TOS), a nonprofit scientific and educational organization dedicated to expanding research, prevention and treatment of obesity, and reducing discrimination affecting persons with obesity.\u00a0 Apovian, a professor of Medicine and Pediatrics who specializes in endocrinology, diabetes and nutrition, has been a member of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25779,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25766\/revisions\/25779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}