Obesity

Obesity: A Challenge for Ultrasound Imaging

Friday, Dec. 3, 8:30 - 10:00 AM

The session is introducing the obesity epidemic and metabolic syndrome, focusing on the changing clinical considerations of fatty liver disease and reviewing impacts of obesity on obstetric ultrasound.

Speaker Information is:
  • Phyllis Glanc, MD, assistant professor of radiology and obstetrics/gynecology, University of Toronto;
  • Syed Ahmad Jamal Bokhari, MD, associate professor of diagnostic radiology, Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn.; and
  • Caitlin T. McGregor, MD, department of medical imaging, University of Toronto.

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