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Dr. Mohamad Mokadem was born in Lebanon and completed undergraduate studies and medical training at the American university of Beirut (AUB) in 2003. He did his initial residency training in Internal Medicine at the AUB-Medical center where he also served as the Medical Chief Resident during the academic year 2006-2007. Thereafter, he moved to the United States for advanced training where he did another residency in Internal Medicine at Indiana University in Indianapolis between 2007 and 2010.

Dr. Mokadem then moved to Dallas, Texas where he completed fellowship training in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at UT Southwestern (UTSW) University. During that same period (extending between 2010 and 2014) he also finished a post-doctoral fellowship training in obesity and metabolism within the Center for Hypothalamic Research at UTSW under the supervision and guidance of Joel Elmquist DVM, PhD and Vincent Aguirre M.D, Ph.D. He now holds the position of assistant professor in the department of internal medicine/division of gastroenterology at the University of Iowa where he is involved in clinical management of gastrointestinal diseases and obesity.

Dr. Taraneh Soleymani is an Assistant Professor in University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Nutrition Sciences, Associate Scientist in the UAB Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC), and Fellow of The Obesity Society. After completing her Internal Medicine residency at Seton Hall University, Newark, NJ, she completed a fellowship in clinical nutrition at UAB with a focus on obesity and inpatient nutrition in critically ill. Dr. Soleymani practices patient tailored, evidence based, and comprehensive medical management of obesity working alongside bariatric surgeons, dietitians, behaviorists and exercise trainers. She also practices inpatient nutrition at Birmingham VA Medical Center with a focus on malnutrition and parental nutrition.

Dr. Soleymani is the Medical Director of EatRight by UAB and co-director of UAB Weight Loss Medicine where she is involved in developing protocols to ensure quality medical care and operational efficiency and overseeing strategic program developments to achieve optimized obesity care.

Dr. Soleymani is involved in several obesity related multidisciplinary and translational research projects. Her research focus is the effect of diet macro composition on management of chronic diseases related to obesity, and changes in body composition. She is passionate about educating the future healthcare professionals in obesity and its management. She is the course director for UAB School of Medicine elective titled “Obesity, Clinical Nutrition, and Food Policy”. And the course director for two clinical electives: “Clinical Management of Obesity” and “Hospital Nutrition”. Dr. Soleymani is board certified in Internal Medicine and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine.

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