Hive 09 - Melody Barnes

Cleveland Clinic CEO and president, Delos (Toby) Cosgrove, MD, and Slate.com editor, David Plotz, moderated a half-day forum about childhood obesity on Thursday, April 21. Cleveland Clinic staff and leading experts discussed the increasing problem of childhood obesity and shared innovative ideas for fighting it. The panel members included:

Melody Barnes, President Obama's domestic policy adviser and architect of the first lady's Let's Move campaign

Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett, who's campaigning to have his city lose 1 million pounds

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, chairman of the Clinical Center Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health

Dan Heath, author of the No. 1 best-seller Switch: How To Change Things When Change Is Hard

Seth Goldman, president and TeaEO of Honest Tea

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson

Dr. David Katz, editor of Childhood Obesity Journal and director and founder of Yale's Prevention Research Center


Dr. Christine Carter-Kent, associate staff physician in the Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology at the Cleveland Clinic

Dr. Dean Ornish, president and founder of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute

Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, secretary of health and mental hygiene for the state of Maryland

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Science & Technology

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• childhood obesity
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