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Penn childhood obesity researchers panelists at AAAS Town Hall Event
02-11-2008 · EurekAlert!Shiriki Kumanyika, PhD, MPH, professor of epidemiology and associate dean for health promotion and health prevention, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Virginia A. Stallings, MD, PhD, the Jean A. Cortner Endowed Chair in Pediatric Gastroenterology at Penn and Professor of Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, will be part of a panel at a special public session, "Understanding Obesity and Childhood" at the 2008 American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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