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Dr. Jennifer Rajkumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine and is employed at the Northwell Health’s Center for Weight Management. She is board certified in Family Medicine and is a diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians and a member of the Obesity Medicine Association. She received her undergraduate degree from George Mason University and an M.D. at Virginia Commonwealth University prior to completing her residency training in Family Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University’s affiliated Riverside Health System. She is passionate about chronic disease prevention, nutritional and culinary education, and evidence-based treatment of clinical obesity.

Dr. Rothberg is the Director of the University of Michigan Weight Management Program a unique demonstration program supported by both Blue Care Network (BCN), one of the largest managed care organizations in southeast Michigan, and by the NIH as part of the Michigan Nutrition Obesity Research Program (MNORC). She specializes in the treatment of overweight and obesity, diabetes, and related metabolic diseases. Dr. Rothberg conducts comprehensive baseline and interval phenotyping of patient-participants to identify the factors that predict successful and cost effective long-term weight loss including studies of the neuro-biopsychosocial adaptions that occur with weight loss. She has enrolled over 800 obese patient-participants in her clinical-research program. She facilitates collaboration and works with other investigators who use her cohort, the biological samples or both. Her program is a model for implementing a comprehensive research component within the context of a 2 year clinical program of real world patients. In addition, Dr. Rothberg interacts with the relevant clinical education faculty to coordinate rotations by graduate students from the School of Public Health and Nutrition and medicine residents and fellows from both Family Medicine and Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan. She provides comprehensive didactics and training to those rotating in the clinic.

Dr. Kavitha Selvaraj is a pediatric weight management specialist trained in clinical medicine, research, teaching, and advocacy. As a pediatrician, her career goal is to promote trauma-informed obesity care in order to reduce toxic stress and improve children’s long-term cardiometabolic and emotional health.

She obtained her Bachelor’s degree with honors in biology from the University of Chicago, during which time she volunteered as a state-certified rape and domestic violence crisis counselor on the south and west sides of Chicago. After college, she taught 7^th grade biology and health in an underserved neighborhood through Teach for America in Los Angeles, where she earned a Master of Arts degree in Secondary Science Education from Loyola Marymount University. She returned to Chicago to complete medical school at the University of Chicago and her pediatrics residency at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. She recently completed her fellowship and chief fellowship in Academic General Pediatrics and Primary Care at Lurie, where she also served as an Instructor of Pediatrics at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and obtained a Master of Public Health degree from Northwestern. She is a double board-certified attending physician in pediatrics and obesity medicine with clinical experience in Lurie’s Wellness and Weight Management Clinic, Preventive Cardiology Clinic, Primary Care Clinic, and Inpatient Service. Her research involves screening for adverse childhood experiences and social determinants of health in the pediatric primary care setting, as well as improving quality of care for children with severe obesity attending subspecialty clinics.

Dr. Siegel attended the New York University School of Medicine and did his pediatric residency at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He has 30 years of experience as a general pediatrician and has been the Medical Director of the Center for Better Health and Nutrition at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center since 2009. He is also a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati.

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.

Reshmi Srinath, MD, is an assistant professor in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease, and is the director of the Mount Sinai Weight and Metabolism Management Program.

 Her interest in metabolism, nutrition, and prevention of metabolic disease started in college as a Division 1 tennis player and led her to pursue a career in medicine and specialize in Endocrinology. She graduated from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine with a merit scholarship. She then completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina, and fellowship training in Endocrinology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, before moving to New York to join Mount Sinai. 

As a faculty member, her expertise is in the prevention and treatment of obesity, diabetes, and other metabolic complications. She is also involved in supervising students, residents and fellows both inpatient and in clinics, as well as preparing current fellows for the Endocrinology board exam.

Brooke Sweeney, MD, FAAP, is a Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatric Physician and the Medical Director of Weight Management services at Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City, Missouri. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine.

Nationally, Dr. Sweeney is on the Governance Board of POWER (Pediatric Obesity Weight Evaluation Registry) and the Associate Director of POWER Recruitment. Dr. Sweeney is active in the Weight Management Expert Exchange of the Children’s Hospital Association/American Academy of Pediatrics Institute for Healthy Childhood Weight. Her clinical expertise is in prevention and treatment of chronic disease, weight management, and clinical care for children with obesity. Her research interests include improving the effectiveness of weight management clinics, transitional care, and using a national registry to improve pediatric weight management.

Dr. Cherie Lisa Vaz is Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at Temple University, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Philadelphia where she practices Endocrinology and Obesity Medicine. Dr. Vaz has been involved in obesity and diabetes research since she began her fellowship in Endocrinology at The State University of New York, Buffalo in 2011. She currently conducts clinical and translational research at Temple University in the fields of obesity, type 2 diabetes and the metabolic syndrome. Dr. Vaz received the 2015 Obesity Medicine Grant Award supported by the Obesity Treatment Foundation. Dr. Vaz’s research involves lifestyle modification and technology for the prevention and treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes.Her research also studies neurocognitive function and neuroinflammation in vulnerable populations with type 2 diabetes and obesity.
Nationally, Dr. Vaz serves on American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) Endocrine Training Support Committee and AACE Technology Committee. She is also an abstract reviewer for the AACE National Meetings and has authored chapters in publications of the American Diabetes Association (ADA). Dr. Vaz is board certified in Obesity Medicine, Endocrinology and Internal Medicine. As faculty for the School of Medicine at Temple University, she mentors students and residents with an interest in Endocrinology or Obesity Medicine. She provides comprehensive didactics on the topics of obesity and type 2 diabetes as part of the medical school curriculum, in depth pathophysiology courses in Endocrinology and core curriculum lectures for the Endocrinology fellowship program.

Dr. William Yancy is a board-certified internist and diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine. He received his undergraduate degree from Duke University in 1991 and his medical degree from East Carolina University in 1995. He was a resident and Chief Resident in Internal Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh from 1995-1999. He completed a fellowship in General Medicine at Duke University, earning a Master in Health Sciences Degree in 2001. Dr. Yancy is Director of the Duke University Diet and Fitness Center, physician in the Duke Lifestyle Medicine Clinic, and Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke University. He is also a Research Scientist in the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Staff Physician in Ambulatory Care, and Co-director of the MOVE! Weight Management program at the Durham VA Medical Center.