Enrichment Program

The Enrichment Program of the UT Southwestern NORC has been designed with three overlying goals in mind.

1. to provide opportunities for the dissemination and exchange of knowledge among UT Southwestern students, principal investigators and their research teams, and health care professionals interested in nutrition and obesity research and in evidence-based clinical care of individuals with obesity.

2. to foster interactions between nutrition and obesity researchers at UT Southwestern with those at other NORC-funded institutions as well as institutions without NORC funding, as a means of facilitating the exchange of ideas and collaborations.

3. to engage the North Texas and wider community at large – both families and health professionals – in an effort to provide them knowledge on the science behind overweight and obesity, to better equip them with evidence-based, best practice strategies for improving metabolic health, and to familiarize them with the translational obesity-related research opportunities at UT Southwestern.

Our program features the following elements:

• UT Southwestern NORC Seminar Series
• UT Southwestern NORC McGarry Symposium
• Coursework and journal clubs for students in a new Molecular Metabolism and Metabolic Diseases Graduate Track and for students interested in nutrition and obesity who are currently funded by several T32 Training Programs on Campus
• Community outreach program entitled, Weight Wellness Day