ECO 2009 Invited Speakers
| Maria Alemany | University of Barcelona, Spain |
| Johan Auwerx | IGBMC - ICS, France |
| Anne Bouloumié | INSERM U858, France |
| Remy Burcelin | Rangueil Hospital, France |
| Riccardo Dalle Grave | Villa Garda Hospital, Italy |
| Christoph F. Ebenbichler | Clinical Division of General Internal Medicine, Austria |
| Ulf Ekelund | Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, United Kingdom |
| Pascal Ferre | Centre de Recherches des Cordeliers, France |
| Carl-Erik Flodmark | University Hospital Malmo, Sweden |
| Jeffrey Gimble | Pennington Biomedical Research Center, USA |
| Alain Golay | University Hospital Geneva, Switzerland |
| Jan-William Gorter | CanChild, McMaster University, Canada |
| David Grundy | The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom |
| Berit Heitmann | Institute of Preventive Medicine, Denmark |
| Joseph Houmard | East Carolina University, USA |
| Anita Janssen | Maastricht University, The Netherlands |
| Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh | UCLA Schools of Medicine and Public Health, USA |
| Shinji Kihara | Osaka University, Japan |
| Peter Kopelman | St George's, University of London, United Kingdom |
| Carel Le Roux | Imperial College London, United Kingdom |
| Tim Lobstein | International Association for the Study of Obesity, United Kingdom |
| Ruth Loos | Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| John Melissas | University of Crete, Greece |
| Suzanne Ozanne | University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| Renato Pasquali | Bologna University, Italy |
| Charlotte Pratt | National Institute of Health, USA |
| Thomas Reinehr | Vestische Hospital, University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany |
| Gabriele Riccardi | Federico II University, Italy |
| Helen Roche | University College Dublin, Ireland |
| Francesco Rubino | Weill Medical College of Cornell University (WCMC), USA |
| Assaf Rudich | Ben Gurion University, Israel |
| Wim Saris | Maastricht University , The Netherlands |
| Patrick Schrauwen | Maastricht University, The Netherlands |
| Thorkild Sorensen | Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark |
| Karine Spiegel | University of Lyon, France |
| June Stevens | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA |
| Carolyn Summerbell | Durham University, United Kingdom |
| Paul Trayhurn | University of Liverpool, United Kingdom |
| Wouter Van Marken Lichtenbelt | Maastricht University , The Netherlands |
| Marjolein Visser | VU University Amsterdam and VU Medical Centre, The Netherlands |
| Richard Wilkinson | University of Nottingham Medical School, United Kingdom |
| Alicia Wolk | Karolinska Institute, Sweden |
| Takashi Yamamoto | Kio University, Japan |
| Hannele Yki-Jarvinen | University of Helsinki, Finland |
| Rudolf Zechner | University of Graz, Austria |
17th European Congress on Obesity | May 6-9 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands