Jennifer Baker

Research Group Leader of Lifecourse Epidemiology Group at Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Copenhagen University Hospital System, Copenhagen, Denmark

Dr. Jennifer L. Baker is a Senior Researcher and leader of the group on lifecourse epidemiology at the Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Copenhagen University Hospital system, in Denmark. Her research programme investigates how body size and growth during childhood in combination with other exposures across the lifecourse relate to disease. Dr. Baker’s work focuses on short and long-term effects of overweight and obesity in children. She and her group have shown that a higher body mass index in childhood increases the risk during adult life of numerous non-communicable diseases including nine types of cancer, cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. 

Dr. Baker has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications and has served on several international expert scientific committees. Dr. Baker is the co-chair for the European Association for the Study of Obesity Childhood Obesity Task Force.

Martin Wabitsch

Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Martin Wabitsch MD, PhD is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Ulm, Germany and is the Head of the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes at the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescents Medicine in Ulm’s University Hospital. His clinical research focus comprises the physiology of body weight regulation in children, genetic obesity and leptin deficiency in human. His experimental research focus is the biology of the human adipocyte.

Dr. Wabitsch has had his clinical and experimental training at the Universities in Berlin (Free University), Ulm, Baltimore (Johns Hopkins) and Nice (Sophia Antipolis). Within an ESPE research fellowship he performed studies on the growth hormone receptor at the Hagedorn Research Institute. At present he is a member of the ESPE Science Committee.

Ania Jastreboff

Associate Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology & Metabolism) & Pediatrics (Pediatric Endocrinology) at Yale University School of Medicine, Director of Weight Management and Obesity Prevention at Yale Stress Center, Co-Director of the Yale Center for Weight Management

Ania Jastreboff, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor in Medicine (Endocrinology & Metabolism) and Pediatrics (Pediatric Endocrinology) at Yale University School of Medicine, Director of Weight Management and Obesity Prevention at the Yale Stress Center, and co-Director of the Yale Center for Weight Management. 

After completing a combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics residency program, Dr. Jastreboff completed both an adult and a pediatric Endocrinology fellowship at Yale. During her dual fellowship, she also completed a PhD in the neurobiology of obesity, becoming board certified in Obesity Medicine, Adult Endocrinology, and Pediatric Endocrinology. 

Dr. Jastreboff is a clinically active physician-scientist nationally and internationally recognized for helping to develop the 2016 Clinical Practice Guidelines for The Comprehensive Care of Patients with Obesity (AACE/ACE), educating the next generation of Obesity Medicine physicians by teaching annually at the Harvard Blackburn Treating Obesity course, the Columbia/Cornell Obesity course, selected international courses, and conducting cutting-edge clinical translational obesity research. Her research includes both large, multi-center clinical outcomes trials using anti-obesity medication as well as neuroimaging studies (fMRI and PET) examining the neurobiology underlying obesity and the mechanisms of anti-obesity medications. Dr. Jastreboff's research is supported by NIH/NIDDK (K23, R01s), American Diabetes Association (ADA), and industry funded multi-center clinical trials. Nationally, she serves as the vice-Chair of the Clinical Care Committee of The Obesity Society (TOS) and has been selected to serve as a Director on the American Board of Obesity Medicine (ABOM). Clinically, Dr. Jastreboff specializes in sophisticated use of anti-obesity medication combinations to help patients reach their weight and health goals!