AGENDA

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
600 PENNSYLVANIA AVE,
WASHINGTON, DC

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2002

9:00 a.m.

Opening Remarks

  • Timothy J. Muris, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission

  • Van Hubbard, M.D., Ph.D., National Institutes of Health
9:30 a.m.

Science Panel (break scheduled at 11:00)

  • Anthony Almada, B.Sc., M.Sc., IMAGINutrition, Inc./MetaResponse Sciences

  • George Blackburn, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School

  • Denise Bruner, M.D., American Society of Bariatric Physicians

  • Harry Greene, M.D., Slim Fast Foods Company, Partnership for Healthy WeightManagement

  • Steven Heymsfield, M.D., St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University College of Physicians

  • Van Hubbard, M.D., Ph.D., National Institutes of Health

  • Judith Stern, S.M., Sc.D., University of California-Davis

  • Lawrence Stifler, Ph.D., Health Management Resources

  • Thomas Wadden, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

  • Susan Yanovski, M.D., National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health
12:00 Noon Lunch Break
1:30 p.m.

Remarks

  • Sheila F. Anthony, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
1:45 p.m.

Industry Panel

  • Brad Bearnson, Icon Health & Fitness, Inc.

  • John Cordaro, Council for Responsible Nutrition

  • Andrea Levine, National Advertising Division, Council of Better Business Bureaus

  • Michael McGuffin, American Herbal Products Association

  • Lisa Myers, Electronic Retailing Association

  • David Seckman, National Nutritional Foods Association

  • Lewis Shender, Jenny Craig, Inc.

  • Harry Greene, M.D., Slim Fast Foods Company, Partnership for Healthy WeightManagement
3:00 p.m. Break
3:15 p.m.

Media Panel

  • John Kimball, Newspaper Association of America

  • Ellen Levine, Good Housekeeping

  • Don McLemore, New Hope Media

  • Will Norton, College of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Nebraska

  • Michael Pashby, Magazine Publishers of America

  • Joseph Ostrow, Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau

  • Herbert Rotfeld, Department of Marketing, Auburn University

  • Frederick Schauer, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
4:30 p.m.

Closing Remarks

  • J. Howard Beales, III, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission

 Last Updated: Tuesday November 19, 2002