Guest Speakers
Andres Acosta, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Co-Director of Nutrition Obesity Research Center
Director of Precision Medicine for Obesity Program
Mayo Clinic
Barham Abu Dayyeh, MD, MPH
Director Interventional Gastroenterology
Executive Director and Associate Dean for Innovation
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Jamy D. Ard, MD, FTOS
Professor, Departments of Epidemiology & Prevention and Internal Medicine
Vice Dean for Clinical Research
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Harold Edward Bays, MD, MFOMA, FTOS, FACC, FNLA, FASPC, DABOM
Medical Director / President
Louisville Metabolic and Atherosclerosis Research Center
Your Body Goal
Justin Brown, PhD
Director, Exercise & Cancer Biology Research Program
AdventHealth
Karan R. Chhabra, MD MSc
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
NYU Langone Health
Christina Chow, PhD
Head of Research, Emerald Lake Safety
Gregory Curtis, MD
Physician, Obesity Medicine
VP, Clinical Experience, knownwell
Diplomate, American Board of Obesity Medicine
Angela Fitch, MD
Past President, Obesity Medicine Association
Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, knownwell
Carolynn Francavilla Brown, MD, FOMA
Owner and Founder, Green Mountain Partners for Health
Founder, HelpYourPatientsLoseWeight.com
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
Michelle Hauser, MD, MS, MPA, FACP, FACLM
President-elect, American College of Lifestyle Medicine
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine (Surgery), General Surgery and, by courtesy, Primary Care and Population Health,
Stanford University School of Medicine
Director, Obesity Medicine, Stanford Lifestyle and Weight Management Center, Stanford Health Care
Steven Heymsfield, MD
Professor, Metabolism & Body Composition
Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University
Deborah 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
Joseph Nadglowski
President/CEO
Obesity Action Coalition
Leigh Perreault, MD
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine
University of Colorado
Richard M. Peterson, MD, MPH, FACS, FASMBS, DABS-FPMBS
Chief Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Director
UT Health San Antonio
Amanda Powell, MD
Chair, Division of Lifestyle Health
Lahey Hospital and Medical Center
Jesse Richards, DO
Director of Obesity Medicine and Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Oklahoma
Sarah Ro, MD
Director, UNC Physicians Network Weight Management Program
University of North Carolina
Diplomate, American Board of Obesity Medicine
Donna Ryan, MD
Professor and Associate Executive Director for Clinical Research
Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University
Vibha Singhal, MBBS, MPH
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Director of Pediatric Obesity
University of California, Los Angeles
Beverly Tchang, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
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
William Samuel Yancy, MD, MHS
Professor of Medicine, Duke Health
Harvard Medical School Faculty
Chika Anekwe, MD, MPH
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Alexander Blood, MD, MSc
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Sreevidya Bodepudi, DO
Clinical Fellow in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Mehmet Furkan Burak, MD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Andrew Chan, MD, MPH
Daniel K. Podolsky Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
Paul Copeland, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Wesley Dutton, MD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Lindsay Fourman, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Director, Lipid and Metabolism Associates
Metabolism Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
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, and Director, Transplant Hepatology Fellowship
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Jacob Mirsky, MD, MA, DipABLM
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Medical Director, Massachusetts General Hospital Healthy Lifestyle Program
Medical Director, Revere HealthCare Center Food Pantry
Jennifer Mulligan, MD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Gail O'Brien, MD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Interim Medical Director, Weight Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
Christopher Palmer, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Director of the Metabolic and Mental Health Program, McLean Hospital
Florence Porterfield, MD
Clinical Fellow in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Shirly Ramchandani, MD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Jennifer Rosenblum, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Amandeep Singh, MD, PhD
Bariatric Endoscopy and Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Faculty of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Amanda S. Xi, MD, MSE
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medicine School
Medical Director for Pre-Procedure Evaluation and Procedural Sedation
Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital