Walter BurniatPost-Graduate in Pediatrics 1979, Free University of Brussels with 'highest distinction' - in French 'la plus grande distinction' (19/20). Full career in the Pediatric Department of the University Hospital St Pierre, Brugmann and HUDERF. Assistant hed of clinics from 1982. Outpatient clinic of pediatrics, outpatient clinic for obesity (from 1986), outpatient clinic for adolescents (from 1997). Medical manager of the Hospital 1993-1995. Active member of the International Physicians against the Nuclear War (Education Reward UNESCO 1984, Nobel Peace Prize 1985). Formed in 1990 the European Childhoood Obesity Group (ECOG) (with Dr E. M. E. Poskitt). Secretary 1990-1994, President 1994-1997, Board Member. The ECOG this year became the official Task Force for Childhood Obesity of the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO). Links exist also with the International Obesity Task Force (WHO). Member of the Belgian Academy of Pediatrics, the European and International Association for the Study on Obesity, the European Childhood Obesity Group. Papers, mainly on obesity in children, in Sleep, Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, Nutrition Research, Risk and Safety Medicine, Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Obesity. Book edited in 1995 with support of Regional Ministry of Health - Brussels: l'Enfant Obèse. Pp 1-120. Bruxelles, Traces de Doigts, W. Burniat Ed. Invited as lecturer to International Meetings: The Obese Child, Ancona 1990, 5th International Congress on Pediatric Nutrition, Naples 1992; Post-Graduate Course on Childhood Obesity, Pécs, Hungary 1994; 6th Workshop of the ECOG, Ulm, 1996; ECOG Satellite 8th European Congress on Obesity, Dublin 1997. Organiser 1st ECOG Workshop, Brussels 1991; 1st ECOG Satellite to EASO Congress, Dublin 1997; ECOG Satellite to 10Th EASO Congress, Antwerp 2000. Read More Read Less