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Childhood obesity represents a worldwide medical and public health challenge. Academic medical centers cannot avoid the effects of the obesity epidemic, and must adopt strategies for their academic, clinical and public policy responses to childhood obesity. The Center for Healthy Weight at Stanford University and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford provides an example and model of one such strategy. The design provides both breadth and depth through six cores: Research, Patient Care, Community Programs, Advocating for Public Policy Change, Training and Professional Education, and the Healthy Hospital Initiative. The Center and its cores are designed to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration across the university, medical school, children's hospital and surrounding community. The foci of these cores are likely to be relevant to almost any academic medical center's mission and functions.
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Dr Robinson has received grant support from the National Institutes of Health. This work was supported in part by the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, the Children's Health Research Institute at Stanford and generous grants from the Vadasz Family Foundation and the Health Trust. Publication of this supplement was partially supported by Nutrilite Health Institute with an unrestricted educational contribution to Stanford Prevention Research Center.
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Robinson, T., Kemby, K. The Center for Healthy Weight: an academic medical center response to childhood obesity. Int J Obes Supp 2 (Suppl 1), S33–S38 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/ijosup.2012.9
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