Youfa Wang, professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, School of Public Health and Health Professions, has been elected secretary/treasurer of The Obesity Society’s (TOS) Pediatric Obesity Section for 2014-15.

He will become the section’s chair-elect in 2015-16 and then chair in 2016-17.

TOS is the leading scientific society dedicated to the study of obesity. Since 1982, it has encouraged research on the causes and treatment of obesity, and kept the medical community and public informed of advances in the field.

Wang also co-chaired the childhood hypertension session at the combined 16th International Symposium of Hypertension and Related Disease and  2014 Chinese Hypertension Meeting held in Shanghai, China, last fall. At the meeting, he delivered a talk, “Tracking of blood pressure from childhood to adulthood: The benefit of childhood obesity prevention programs.”