Time: 9:30 - 10:30 EDT

The Institute of Medicine is releasing the report, Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance on Thursday, September 30, 2004 at 9:30 am in Washington, DC.

The report briefing will be available through a live audio webcast that will begin at 9:30 am EDT on September 30th.  The link to the webcast will be available from http://national-academies.org. Listeners may submit questions using an e-mail form also available at http://national-academies.org.

Audio access to the webcast requires either RealPlayer or Windows Media Player. For more information on using these players, see the respective Web sites. 

• RealPlayer software is available free at http://www.real.com/player. 
• Windows Media Player is available free at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads.

The committee members participating in the report release briefing are:

JEFFREY KOPLAN (Chair), Vice President for Health Affairs, Emory University and former Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta

SHIRIKI KUMANYIKA, Professor of Epidemiology and Associate Dean for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

RUSSELL PATE, Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Public Health, Norman J. Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia

TOM ROBINSON, Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine and the Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford