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Faculty
Co-Directors
| Obesity Summit Director | |
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Philip R. Schauer, MD |
| Industry Day Co-Director | |
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Lee R. Wrubel, MD General Partner Foundation Medical Partners Rowayton, CT |
| Special Speaker | |
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Delos Cosgrove CEO and President Cleveland Clinic |
Guest Faculty
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Caroline Apovian, MD Director, Nutrition and Weight Management Center Boston University Medical Center Boston, Massachusetts |
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Kenneth Fujioka, MD Director of the Nutrition & Metabolic Research Center Department of Endocrinology Scripps Clinic San Diego, CA |
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Louis Aronne, MD Director, Comprehensive Weight Control Program Clinical Associate Professor Weill Cornell Medical College Ithica, NY |
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Thomas H. Inge, MD, PhD Surgical Director, Surgical Weight Loss Program for Teens Director, Center for Bariatric Research and Innovation Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati, OH |
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Richard Atkinson, MD Director, Obetech Obesity Research Center Richmond, VA Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Sciences University of Wisconsin Madison, WI |
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Bryce Klontz Global Marketing Director, Metabolics Covidien North Haven, CT |
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S. Bryn Austin, ScD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Harvard Medical School Director of Fellowship Research Training Department of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine Children’s Hospital Boston Boston, MA |
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Walter Lindstrom, Jr. Esq Obesity Law and Advocacy Center Chula Vista, CA |
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Nathan A. Berger, MD Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry and Oncology School of Medicine Director, Center for Science, Health and Society Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH |
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Truls Østbye, MD, PhD Department of Community and Family Medicine Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC |
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Daniel Bessesen, MD Chief of Endocrinology Denver Health Medical Center Denver, CO |
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Stuart A. Randle, MBA President and CEO GI Dynamics, Inc Lexington, MA |
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George Bray, MD Chief, Division of Clinical Obesity and Metabolism Pennington Biomedical Research Center Baton Rouge, LA |
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Eric Ravussin, PhD Chief, Division of Health and Performance Enhancement Pennington Biomedical Research Center Baton Rouge, LA |
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Hubert Chen, MD Senior Director, Clinical Research Amylin Pharmaceuticals San Diego, CA |
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Donna Ryan, MD Associate Executive Director for Clinical Research Pennington Biomedical Research Center Baton Rouge, LA |
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Timothy Church, MD, PhD, MPH John S. McHenry Endowed Chair in Health Wisdom Pennington Biomedical Research Center Baton Rouge, LA |
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B. Timothy Walsh, MD Director, Eating Disorders Research Unit New York State Psychiatric Institute Columbia University Medical Center New York, NY |
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Pierre-Yves Crémieux, PhD Department of Economics University of Quebec at Montreal Montreal, Canada Managing Principal, Analysis Group Boston, MA |
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Walter Willett, MD, PhD, MPH Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition Chair, Department of Nutrition Harvard School of Public Health Boston, MA |
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Gary D. Foster, PhD Director, Center for Obesity Research and Education Professor, Medicine and Public Health Temple University Philadelphia, PA |
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Bruce M. Wolfe, MD Professor of Surgery Orgeon Health and Science University Portland, OR |
Cleveland Clinic Faculty
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Charles Bae, MD Staff, Quality Review Officer Sleep Center Neurological Institute |
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Wendy Kirby, RD Registered Dietitian Bariatric and Metabolic Institute |
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Stacy Brethauer, MD Bariatric & Metabolic Institute Endocrinology & Metabolism Institute |
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John Kirwan, PhD Deprtment of Gastroenterology & Hepatology Digestive Disease Institute Department of Pathobiology Lerner Research Institute |
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Derrick Cetin, DO Community Internal Medicine Endocrinology & Metabolism Institute |
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Michael McMillan Executive Director, Market and Network Services |
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Bipan Chand, MD |
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Cindy Moore, RD, LD Director, Nutrition Therapy Digestive Disease Institute |
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Leslie Cho, MD Department of Cardiovascular Medicine Heart and Vascular Institute |
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Kate Nagel, MPH Director, Department of Public Health and Research |
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Karen Cooper, DO Bariatric & Metabolic Institute Endocrinology & Metabolism Institute |
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Steven E. Nissen, MD, MACC Chairman, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine Heart and Vascular Institute |
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Jeffrey Goldberg, MD Section Head, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility OB/GYN & Women’s Health Institute |
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Michael F. Roizen, MD Chief Wellness Officer Chairman, Wellness Institute |
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Leslie Heinberg, PhD Bariatric & Metabolic Institute Endocrinology & Metabolism Institute |
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Ellen Rome, MD, MPH Section Head, Adolescent Medicine Pediatrics Institute |
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Oliver Henkel, Jr. Chief Government Relations Officer Department of Government Relations |
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Sylvia Rotemberg, MD Department of Plastic Surgery Dermatology & Plastic Surgery Institute |
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Sangeeta Kashyap, MD Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Endocrinology & Metabolism Institute |
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James Young, MD Chairman, Endocrinology & Metabolism Institute |
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Laurence Kennedy, MD, FRCP Chairman, Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Endocrinology & Metabolism Institute |
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Robert Zimmerman, MD Interim Chairman and Program Director Department of Endocrinology Endocrinology & Metabolism Institute |






















































