Guest Speakers
Barham Abu Dayyeh, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine
Consultant, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Jamy D. Ard, MD, FTOS
Professor, Departments of Epidemiology & Prevention and Internal Medicine
Vice Dean for Clinical Research
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Justin Brown, PhD
Associate Professor
Director, Cancer Metabolism Program,
Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University
Christina Chow, PhD
Head of Research, Emerald Lake Safety
Greg Curtis, MD
Physician, Obesity Medicine
VP, Clinical Experience, knownwell
Diplomate, American Board of Obesity Medicine
Daniel J. Drucker, MD
Senior Scientist, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Angela Fitch, MD
Founder and Chief Medical Officer, knownwell
President, Obesity Medicine Association
Carolynn Francavilla Brown, MD
Owner and Founder, Green Mountain Partners for Health
Christopher Gardner, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Stanford Prevention Research Center
Director, Clinical and Translational Core, Stanford Diabetes Research Center
Timothy Garvey, MD
Associate Director, Nutrition Obesity Research Center
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Adam H. Gilden, MD, MSCE
Associate Director, Obesity Medicine
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Steven Heymsfield, MD
Professor, Metabolism & Body Composition
Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University
Deborah Bade Horn DO, MPH, MFOMA
Medical Director, Center for Obesity Medicine and Metabolic Performance
Program Director, UT Fellowship in Clinical Obesity Medicine
University of Texas, Houston
John Jakicic, PhD
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Division of Physical Activity and Weight Management
University of Kansas Medical Center
Ethan Lazarus, MD, FOMA
Physician and Owner, Clinical Nutrition Center
Immediate Past-President, Obesity Medicine Association
Delegate, American Medical Association House of Delegates
Diplomate, American Board of Obesity Medicine
Diplomate, American Board of Family Medicine
Jeremy McConnell, MD
Private practice, Florida Sleep Specialists
Leigh Perreault, MD
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine
University of Colorado
Jesse Richards, DO
Director of Obesity Medicine and Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Oklahoma
Elizabeth K. Speliotes, MD, PhD, MPH, FAASLD
Keith Henley MD Collegiate Professor of Gastroenterology
Director, Precision Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine
University of Michigan
Grant M. Tinsley, PhD, CSCS,*D
Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology & Sport Management
Director, Energy Balance & Body Composition Laboratory
Texas Tech University
Krista Varady, PhD
Professor of Kinesiology and Nutrition
University of Illinois, Chicago
Harvard Medical School Faculty
Jennifer Ahn, MD
Clinical Fellow, Mass General Weight Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
Chika Anekwe, MD, MPH
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Romit Bhattacharya, MD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Alexander Blood, MD, MSc
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Sreevidya Bodepudi, DO
Obesity Medicine Fellow, Harvard Medical School
David Boyce, MD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Medical Director, Outpatient Surgery Center at Mass General Waltham
Andrew Chan, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit
Paul Copeland, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Kathleen Corey, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Fatty Liver Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital
Wesley Dutton, MD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
David Eisenberg, MD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director of Culinary Nutrition, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
Lindsay Fourman, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Mark Gorman, PhD
Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School
Cornelia Griggs, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Susan Himes, PhD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Michelle Lai, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, NAFLD Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Jacob Mirsky, MD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Medical Director, Revere HealthCare Center Food Pantry
Gail O'Brien, MD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Christopher Palmer, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Director of the Metabolic and Mental Health Program, McLean Hospital
Shirly Ramchandani, MD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Jennifer Rosenblum, MD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Klara Rosenquist, MD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Eric Sheu, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Section of Bariatric and Foregut Surgery
Associate Program Director, Minimally Invasive & Bariatric Surgery Fellowship
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Amandeep Singh, MD, PhD
Bariatric Endoscopy and Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Faculty of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Vibha Singhal, MBBS, MPH
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Director, Pediatric Program, Mass General Weight Center, Massachusetts General Hospital