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Richard Morgan Downey is an American obesity advocate, consultant and editor of the Downey Obesity Report. Downey is the former executive director of the American Obesity Association and has been actively involved in the obesity field for since 1998. He organized the first conference on obesity as a public policy issue in 1999, and has testified before Congressional Committees. In addition, he has approximately 20 professional publications and has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, and interviewed on The Today Show and NPR. ==Anti-obesity activism== Downey currently consults with several organizations on obesity issues and serves as the Policy Director of the STOP Obesity Alliance, part of George Washington University’s School of Public Health and Health Services, and is a member of the steering committee of the Coalition to Prevent DVT. From 1998 to 2006, Downey was the executive director of the American Obesity Association (AOA). AOA was an educational and advocacy organization dedicated to promoting understanding of obesity and advocating public policies to combat the epidemic. During his tenure he organized the first conferences on obesity as a public policy issue, especially childhood obesity, secured an Internal Revenue System Revenue Ruling that expenses for weight loss treatment were eligible for the medical deduction on individual taxes; convinced the Social Security Administration, the Internal Revenue Service and Medicare (the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) that obesity is a disease; pushed Surgeon General David Satcher to focus on obesity leading to his groundbreaking Surgeon General’s report; and helped to greatly expanded Medicare coverage of bariatric surgery. From 2006 to 2008 he was the executive vice president of the Obesity Society, the medical and scientific society for obesity. While at the Obesity Society, Downey initiated a program to develop a credential to recognize physicians specializing in the treatment of obesity and established a section of the Society dedicated to Health Services Research. He conducted a forum in 2007 “What Should the Next Administration Do About Obesity?” co-sponsored by the STOP Obesity Alliance and the National Journal. Nine presidential candidates (Senators Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Dodd, John Edwards, John McCain, Obama, and Governors Richardson and Mitt Romney and Mayor Rudy Giuliani) were represented, as was Peter Orszag, now President Obama’s director of the Congressional Budget Office, then director of the Congressional Budget Office. The discussions were moderated by Linda Douglass, then with ''National Journal'' and now director of communications for the White House health care reform efforts. In 2008, Downey conducted similar forums at both the Democratic and Republican National Party Conventions. Participating in the forum at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado were Melody Barnes, now the White House director of Domestic Policy and Representative John Conyers, (D-MI), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus. The Republican Forum, held in St. Paul, Minnesota was moderated by Lesley Stahl of CBS Sixty Minutes and featured former presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas and Tommy Thompson, former governor of Wisconsin and past Secretary of Health and Human Services. Due to these efforts, obesity was included for the first time in both party’s national platforms in 2008. In 1999, 2000 and 2001, Downey, at the American Obesity Association, conducted the first conferences on obesity as a public policy issue. The first AOA conference in 1999 featured Surgeon General David Satcher, the first time a Surgeon General had directly addressed the obesity epidemic. In 2000, the AOA conference was the first in which representatives of the Presidential campaigns, Governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore, addressed obesity and a survey AOA carried out on the attitudes of both parents to their children’s weight. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Morgan Downey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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