Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to.

1|Review how measurement of energy expenditure is performed.
2|Review confounders related to measured energy expenditure.
3|Review how energy expenditure measured during energy balance differs from energy expenditure measured during fasting and overfeeding and how this may relate to weight change.

Faculty

Jonathan Krakoff, MD

Chief, Obesity and Diabetes Clinical Research

Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research Branch, NIDDK,NIH

Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education ( CE ) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options.  Faculty or planner conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity.

None of the members of the faculty and planning committee for this educational event have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods and services consumed by or used on patients.