“Helping patients achieve meaningful weight loss with improvements in their mood, function, and associated disease processes has been incredibly rewarding. I feel like I am improving not only their health but their entire mood including confidence.”
“Even if a physician doesn’t want to practice obesity medicine, exposure to the information and developing the mindset of thinking and addressing the disease of obesity with the same matter-of-factness that we discuss heart disease or depression will help patients so much.”
“As a primary care doctor, becoming an expert in a critical area like pediatric obesity has been incredibly fulfilling. It allows me to make a real difference by countering misinformation with solid expertise.”
“ABOM certification gave us the leverage to share our vision with the leadership at our institution. This vision challenges the status quo of just treating the comorbidities of obesity in the primary care settings and offers hope to all patients.”
“Obesity medicine can be very challenging, but equally rewarding. Knowledge in this field is always growing which can lead to a significant positive impact on the health and quality of life of my patients. “