FELLOW SPOTLIGHT
Current and Former Obesity Medicine Fellows
Fellowship Training Institution: Wake Forest Baptist Health
Primary Board Certification: Internal Medicine
Secondary Board Certification: Obesity Medicine
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer: Obesity Medicine Physician, Wake Forest Weight Management Center
mmocock@wakehealth.edu
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center, Clinical Nutrition and Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification: Internal Medicine
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: No
Current Position & Employer: Primary Care Physician, Baystate Medical Practices Wilbraham Adult Medicine
Fellowship Training Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School, Obesity Medicine and Nutrition
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer:
Fellowship Training Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School, Obesity Medicine and Nutrition
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: No
Current Position & Employer:
Fellowship Training Institution: Weill Cornell Medicine, Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification: Internal Medicine
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer: Director of Medical Weight Management at the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center, Clinical Nutrition and Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: No
Current Position & Employer:
Fellowship Training Institution: Weill Cornell Medicine, Obesity Medicine
Fellowship Training Institution: Weill Cornell Medicine, Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate:
Current Position & Employer: Fellow
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center, Clinical Nutrition and Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer:
Fellowship Training Institution: Wake Forest Baptist Health
Primary Board Certification: Internal Medicine
Current Position & Employer: Fellow (2020-21)
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center, Clinical Nutrition and Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification: Internal Medicine
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: No
Current Position & Employer: Physician, Nutrition and Weight Management, Geisinger Medical Center
njbressler@geisinger.edu
Fellowship Training Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Obesity Medicine and Nutrition
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer: Obesity Medicine Specialist, Cleveland Clinic
Fellowship Training Institution: University of Texas McGovern Medical School
Primary Board Certification: Family Medicine
ABOM Diplomate:
Current Position & Employer: Fellow
Fellowship Training Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School, Obesity Medicine and Nutrition
Primary Board Certification: Pediatrics
Secondary Board Certification: Internal medicine
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer: Obesity Medicine Physician Scientist, Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School
fstanford@mgh.harvard.edu
Fellowship Training Institution: University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston, Clinical Obesity Medicine & Metabolism
Primary Board Certification: Internal Medicine
Secondary Board Certification: Obesity Medicine
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer: Obesity Medicine Physician, Abrazo Medical Group
Fellowship Training Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School, Obesity Medicine and Nutrition
Primary Board Certification: Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Current Position & Employer: Fellow (2020-21)
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center, Clinical Nutrition and Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: No
Current Position & Employer:
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center
Primary Board Certification:
Current Position & Employer: Fellow (2020-21)
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center, Clinical Nutrition and Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer:
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center, Clinical Nutrition and Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification: Internal Medicine
Secondary Board Certification: Pediatrics
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer: Program Director, Obesity & Nutrition Fellowship Program at Geisinger Medical Center
Fellowship Training Institution: Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center, Obesity Medicine and Nutrition
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: No
Current Position & Employer: Staff Physician Assistant Medical Director, Global Education and Care; Weight Management and Clinical Nutrition Specialist-Joslin Diabetes Center; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center, Clinical Nutrition and Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: No
Current Position & Employer:
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center, Clinical Nutrition and Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: No
Current Position & Employer:
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center, Clinical Nutrition and Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: No
Current Position & Employer:
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center, Clinical Nutrition and Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: No
Current Position & Employer:
Fellowship Training Institution: Weill Cornell Medicine, Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification: Internal Medicine
Secondary Board Certification: Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer: Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Fellowship Program Director, Weill Cornell Medicine; Attending Endocrinologist, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center; Director, Comprehensive Weight Control Center (West)
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center, Clinical Nutrition and Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer:
Fellowship Training Institution: Wake Forest Baptist Health
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate:
Current Position & Employer: Fellow
Fellowship Training Institution: University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston, Clinical Obesity Medicine & Metabolism
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate:
Current Position & Employer:
Fellowship Training Institution: New York University Langone Health
Primary Board Certification: Internal Medicine
ABOM Diplomate:
Current Position & Employer: Fellow
Fellowship Training Institution: Weill Cornell Medicine, Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification: Internal Medicine
Secondary Board Certification: Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Endocrinologist/Obesity Medicine Specialist, Weill Cornell Medicine
Fellowship Training Institution: Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center, Obesity Medicine and Nutrition
Primary Board Certification: Internal Medicine
Secondary Board Certification: Obesity Medicine
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer: Fellow
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center, Clinical Nutrition and Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification: Internal Medicine
Secondary Board Certification: Obesity Medicine
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer: Assistant Professor of Surgery and Medicine; Director Medical Weight Management Program; Fellowship Director, Clinical Obesity Medicine Fellowship; Clinical and Education lead, Comprehensive Program for Obesity, NYU Langone Health
hollylofton@gmail.com
Fellowship Training Institution: Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center, Obesity Medicine and Nutrition; Stanford Medical Center (Endocrine Fellowship) Stanford, CA
Primary Board Certification: Internal Medicine
Secondary Board Certification: Endocrine
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer: Palo Alto Medical Foundation. Medical director of Weight management and metabolic health clinic.
katayounl@hotmail.com
Fellowship Training Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School, Obesity Medicine and Nutrition
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer:
Fellowship Training Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Obesity Medicine and Nutrition; Pediatric Endocrinology, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York
Primary Board Certification: Pediatrics
Secondary Board Certification: Pediatric endocrinology
ABOM Diplomate: No
Current Position & Employer: Instructor, Harvard Medical School; Attending in the division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Assistant in Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children
smalhotra1@mgh.harvard.edu
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center, Clinical Nutrition and Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer:
Fellowship Training Institution: Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center, Obesity Medicine and Nutrition
Primary Board Certification: Internal Medicine
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer: Obesity Medicine Physician, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center, Clinical Nutrition and Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: No
Current Position & Employer:
Fellowship Training Institution: Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center, Obesity Medicine and Nutrition
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center, Clinical Nutrition and Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification: Internal Medicine
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer: President and Medical Director of Weight & Life MD in Ewing, NJ
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center, Clinical Nutrition and Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: No
Current Position & Employer:
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center, Clinical Nutrition and Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: No
Current Position & Employer:
Fellowship Training Institution: Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center, Obesity Medicine and Nutrition
Primary Board Certification: Internal Medicine
Secondary Board Certification: Endocrinology
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer: University of Maryland
Fellowship Training Institution: Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center, Obesity Medicine and Nutrition; Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Boston University
Primary Board Certification: Internal Medicine
Secondary Board Certification: Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism
ABOM Diplomate: No
Current Position & Employer: Assistant Professor, Division of Nutrition, Dept. of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University
pornpoj.pra@mahidol.edu
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center, Clinical Nutrition and Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: No
Current Position & Employer:
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center, Clinical Nutrition and Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification: Internal Medicine
Secondary Board Certification: Obesity Medicine and Physician Nutrition Specialist
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer: Metabolic Medicine Center, Morristown, NJ
viproudan5@gmail.com
Fellowship Training Institution: Weill Cornell Medicine, Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate:
Current Position & Employer: Fellow
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center, Clinical Nutrition and Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: No
Current Position & Employer:
Fellowship Training Institution: Weill Cornell Medicine, Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification: Internal Medicine
Secondary Board Certification: Obesity Medicine
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer: Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine
kph2001@med.cornell.edu
Fellowship Training Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School, Obesity Medicine and Nutrition
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate:
Current Position & Employer: fellow
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center, Clinical Nutrition and Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification: Internal Medicine
Secondary Board Certification: Obesity Medicine
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer: Medical Director for bariatric and weight management center for Edward Health Ventures, Edward-Elmhurst Hospital System in Illinois.
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center
Primary Board Certification:
Current Position & Employer: Fellow (2020-21)
Fellowship Training Institution: Weill Cornell Medicine, Obesity Medicine
Fellowship Training Institution: Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center, Obesity Medicine and Nutrition
Primary Board Certification: Internal Medicine
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer: Director Obesity Medicine Fellowship Program; Assistant Professor: University of Utah Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes
Fellowship Training Institution: University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston, Clinical Obesity Medicine & Metabolism
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer:
Fellowship Training Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School, Obesity Medicine and Nutrition
Primary Board Certification: Med-Peds
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer: Program Director, Obesity Medicine Fellowship Program; Associate Professor, Medicine, Pediatrics, & Surgery; Medical Director, Vanderbilt Obesity Medicine; Co-Director, Vanderbilt Weight Loss Center
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center, Clinical Nutrition and Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer: Fellowship Program Director, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA
Fellowship Training Institution: Weill Cornell Medicine, Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification: Internal Medicine
Secondary Board Certification: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer: Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine
Fellowship Training Institution: University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Primary Board Certification: Preventive Medicine
Secondary Board Certification: Lifestyle Medicine
Current Position & Employer: Fellow 2020-21
Fellowship Training Institution: New York University Langone Health
Primary Board Certification:
Current Position & Employer: Fellow (2020-21)
Fellowship Training Institution: University of Texas McGovern Medical School
Fellowship Training Institution: Weill Cornell Medicine, Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification: Internal Medicine
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer: Medical Director, Medical Weight Loss at Hartford HealthCare Medical Group
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center, Clinical Nutrition and Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: No
Current Position & Employer:
Fellowship Training Institution: Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center, Obesity Medicine and Nutrition
Primary Board Certification: Internal Medicine
Secondary Board Certification: Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism
ABOM Diplomate: No
Current Position & Employer: Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Division of Endocrinology; University of Tennessee Methodist Physicians Multi Specialty Practice, Memphis, TN and CNS Healthcare, Memphis, TN
Fellowship Training Institution: Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center, Obesity Medicine and Nutrition
Primary Board Certification: Internal Medicine
Secondary Board Certification: Obesity Medicine
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer: Bariatric Medicine Physician at West LA Comprehensive Bariatric Center and Primary Care Physician at Southern California Kaiser Permanente
Fellowship Training Institution: Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center, Obesity Medicine and Nutrition
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer: Program Director, Obesity Medicine and Nutrition Fellowship at Boston Medical Center
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center, Clinical Nutrition and Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer:
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center, Clinical Nutrition and Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification: Internal Medicine
Secondary Board Certification: Obesity Medicine
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer: Obesity Medicine Specialist WakeMed Bariatric Specialists of North Carolina
kzalava@gmail.com
Fellowship Training Institution: Geisinger Medical Center, Clinical Nutrition and Obesity Medicine
Primary Board Certification:
Secondary Board Certification:
ABOM Diplomate: Yes
Current Position & Employer: