Obesity Medicine

My approach to obesity medicine embraces health at every size, body positivity, and body neutrality. The goal is not for everyone who walks through the door to reach a perfect size zero swimsuit body. The goal is to find the right objective for you, tailored to your unique physical, mental, and emotional health. Goals can focus on weight loss or they can focus on building flexibility and endurance, reducing medication burden, lowering blood sugar or blood pressure. There is no one right way to pursue health.

At the core of my practice are five pillars of therapy to help reach these goals:

• Nutrition

• Physical activity

• Sleep

• Mental health

• Medications/surgery

I’m not shy about using medications to help achieve each person’s individual goals but they are not the only focus of my work. To ensure successful and lasting change, it is important to explore all aspects of a person’s health and address comorbid conditions that can slow or impact a person’s weight loss journey such as sleep apnea, insomnia, joint pain, reflux, and past trauma to name a few. Additionally, while nutrition and physical activity alone are often not as powerful as medication in providing long lasting weight loss, they are an important part of the comprehensive plan for all of my patients.

Working collaboratively and forming lasting relationships with my patients are the most rewarding aspects of medicine for me. These tools, along with my knowledge on current therapies in obesity medicine and over thirteen years of experience as a primary care physician, make me the perfect choice as your obesity medicine doctor.