Take One Step for Your Family’s Health

Hosted by Dr. Nancy Snyderman

Premieres on PBS on April 11 at 10:30 PM ET

This 30-minute panel discussion brings together pioneering medical researchers as well as community activists and public health leaders to explore what needs to be done on the personal level, the family level, the community level, and the public policy level to help kids avoid the lifelong health trap that is obesity.

Host
Dr. Nancy Snyderman, Chief Medical Editor, NBC NEWS

Panelists

Dr. Nancy Snyderman (host)
Chief Medical Editor, NBC News

James O. Hill, Ph.D.
Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado, Professor Hill is co-founder of the America on the Move Foundation.

David Ludwig MD, Ph.D 
Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Ludwig is also a clinician and a researcher at Children's Hospital Boston where is serves as Director of the Optimal Weight for Life (OWL) Program.

America Bracho, MPH  
Ms. Bracho is the founder and Executive Director of Latino Health Access in Santa Ana, CA

Lee M. Kaplan, MD, Ph.D
Dr. Kaplan is Director of Massachusetts General Hospital’s Obesity Research Center and Weight Center and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Catherine Nonas, R.D., M.S.
Ms. Nonas is Director of the Obesity and Diabetes Programs at North General Hospital in Harlem, where she organizes community as well as hospital efforts to combat obesity in children and adults.

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