Early Intervention, Lasting Benefit: Reshaping the Obesity Treatment Paradigm

16:00 – 16:05	Opening — the unhealthy cost of waiting	Arya Sharma (DEU)
16:05 – 16:10	Obesity as a chronic progressive disease	Arya Sharma (DEU)
16:10 – 16:15	Obesity Related Complications (ORCs): which, when and why they converge	Luc Van Gaal (BEL)
16:15 – 16:23	Pharmacotherapy in the prevention & treatment of ORCs	Luc Van Gaal (BEL)
16:23 – 16:28	The maintenance imperative	Arya Sharma (DEU)
16:28 – 16:30	Closing	Arya Sharma (DEU)