TIME/ABC News Summit on Obesity

SPEAKERS The summit featured dozens of distinguished speakers. Click on the photos to read the bios & view available summit presentations.
	Arthur Agatston, M.D. Author, The South Beach Diet	Samuel E. Beall, III Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Ruby Tuesday, Inc.

	David Bjerklie Senior Reporter TIME Magazine	Eric M. Bost Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services USDA

	T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. Prof. of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School Founder, Child Development Unit Children's Hospital, Boston	Kelly D. Brownell Prof. and Chair of Psychology Dir. of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders Yale Univ.

	Paul Campos Professor of Law University of Colorado	Richard H. Carmona, M.D. United States Surgeon General

	Majora Carter Founder and Executive Director Sustainable South Bronx	Susan Combs Texas Agriculture Commissioner

	Peter B. Corr Senior Vice President, Science and Technology, Pfizer Inc.	Stephen R. Daniels, M.D. Prof. and Associate Chairman Dept. of Pediatrics Cincinnati Children's Hospital

	Jean Pierre Despres Professor, Department of Sciences of Food and Nutrition Laval University, Montreal, Canada	Philip Elmer-DeWitt Sciences Editor TIME Magazine

	Mark Fenton Host, America's Walking PBS	Lawrence D. Frank Bombardier Chairholder in Sustainable Urban Transportation School of Community and Regional Planning University of British Columbia

	Ann M. Fudge Chairman and CEO Young & Rubicam Brands	Christine Gorman Senior Writer TIME Magazine

	James O. Hill, M.D. Professor of Pediatrics Director, Center for Human Nutrition Director, Colorado Clinical Nutrition Research Unit (CNRU)	Betsy D. Holden President, Global Marketing & Category Development Kraft Foods Inc.

	Hon. Mike Huckabee Governor of Arkansas	Philip T. James Chairman International Obesity Task Force

	Peter Jennings Anchor and Senior Editor "World News Tonight With Peter Jennings"	Timothy Johnson, M.D. ABC News Medical Editor

	Daniel Kadlec Senior Writer TIME Magazine	Cathy Kapica Director, Global Nutrition McDonald's Corporation

	David L. Katz, M.D. Associate Clinical Professor Yale Schools of Public Health & Medicine Director, Yale Prevention Research Center	Jim Kelly Managing Editor TIME

	Richard E. Killingsworth Director Active Living by Design National Program Office University of North Carolina – School of Public Health	Jeffrey Kluger Senior Writer TIME Magazine

	Shiriki Kumanyika Professor of Epidemiology Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine	Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D. President and CEO The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

	Brock Leach Senior Vice President, New Growth Platforms and Chief Innovation Officer Pepsico	Julia Graham Lear Director, Center for Health and Health Care in Schools The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services and the Graduate School of Education and Human Development

	Peggy H. Lee Director of Food Services Chesapeake, Va.	Christopher B. Leinberger Founding Partner Arcadia Land Company

	Michael Lemonick Senior Writer TIME Magazine	Alice H. Lichtenstein Stanley N. Gershoff Prof. of Nutrition Science and Policy Gerald J. & Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts Univ.

	Frank Lipman, M.D. Founder and Director Eleven Eleven Wellness Center	JoAnn E. Manson, M.D. Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Chief of Preventive Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital

	James S. Marks, M.D. Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion	Michael Mudd Executive Vice President, Global Corporate Affairs Kraft Foods Inc.

	Timothy J. Muris Chairman Federal Trade Commission	Ann Pleshette Murphy Parenting Contributor Good Morning America

	Eileen Naughton President TIME Magazine	Marion Nestle Prof. and Chair, Dept. of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health, NYU Author, Food Politics

	Dean Ornish, M.D. Founder, President and Dir. Preventive Medicine Research Institute	Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. Dir., Cardiovascular Institute V. Chairman for Cardiovascular Services, Dept. of Surgery Columbia Univ. College of Physicians & Surgeons

	Alice Park Senior Reporter TIME Magazine	Martha Pickerill Managing Editor, TIME FOR KIDS

	Barry M. Popkin Prof. of Nutrition and Head, Division of Nutrition Epidemiology, School of Public Health Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	Susan Roberts Professor of Nutrition, Professor of Psychiatry and Scientific Staff Member of Pediatrics Tufts University

	Eric Roston Writer-Reporter Time Magazine	James Sallis Prof. of Psychology San Diego State Univ.

	Philip Schauer, M.D. Assistant Professor of Surgery University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	Donald W. Short Vice-President The Coca-Cola Company

	Marva Smalls Executive Vice President of Public Affairs, and Chief of Staff Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, TV Land, Noggin and Spike TV	Joshua D. Sparrow, M.D. Assistant Prof. in Psychiatry Harvard Medical School and Supervisor of Inpatient Psychiatry, Children's Hospital, Boston

	Kári Stefánsson, M.D. President and CEO deCODE Genetics, Inc.	Thomas E. Stenzel President and CEO United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association

	Michael Suk, M.D. White House Fellow and Special Assistant to the Secretary U.S. Department of the Interior	Lynn C. Swann Chairman President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports

	James E. Tillotson Prof., Food Policy Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts Univ.	Stuart Lawrence Trager, M.D. Chairperson Atkins Physicians Council

	Claudia Wallis Editor-at-Large TIME Magazine	Mary E. Walsh Kearns Professor of Urban Education and Innovative Leadership Lynch School of Education Boston College

	Alice Waters Owner Chez Panisse	Andrew Weil, M.D. Director of the Program in Integrative Medicine College of Medicine, U. of Arizona

	Walter C. Willett, M.D. Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition Chairman of the Department of Nutrition Harvard School of Public Health	Margo G. Wootan Director, Nutrition Policy Center for Science in the Public Interest