title: The Center for Healthy Weight: an academic medical center response to childhood obesity.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine, and Center for Healthy Weight, Stanford University School of Medicine , Palo Alto, CA, USA ; Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford , Palo Alto, CA, USA.
authors.forename: T N
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Robinson
authors.affiliation: Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford , Palo Alto, CA, USA.
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Kemby
keywords: academic medical center; childhood obesity; children's hospital; patient care; public policy; research
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