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About Me.

  • I am a physician with an interest in Obesity Medicine. I have a passion for improving health with the ultimate intention to prevent disease. My goal is to teach others how to maintain and active and healthy lifestyle. I hope to converge a career built on reacting to acute illnesses with a career where I can instead prevent diseases with weight management and health-style changes. 

  • I not only have a Medical Doctorate, but also a Master’s degree in Human and Applied Physiology, as well as, a undergraduate degree in Exercise Science. I have further training as an Emergency Medicine physician and now have supplemented my education with Obesity Medicine training through Courses at Columbia and Cornell. I will be sitting for the American Board of Obesity Medicine certification this year (2025). This education helps guide me when treating patients in all sectors and many circumstances. 

  • When not working, I enjoy spending time with my 3 crazy, active boys (7yo, 5 yo, 5yo), my fun loving, hard-working husband, my smart but dumb, lazy 10 yo lab. I enjoy quiet nights, reading, and traveling. My husband and I like to poke around antique shops and goodwill. But, mostly we love spending time at home and in our pool during the hot summers seeing our kids grow. 

    • I am a Mom, Wife, Daughter, Sister, Niece, Friend, a Human just trying to do the best I can and give what I can to others to help whom I can in the world.

  • I follow:

    • Petter Attia

    • Humberman Lab

    • James Clear

    • The Happiness Project

  • I am a member of/Certified in:

    • Obesity Medicine Association

    • ACLS

    • ATLS

    • PALS

Education

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  • 10 years practicing medicine

  • Medical Degree from Medical College of Georgia

  • Human and Applied Physiology Degree from Kings’ College London

  • Exercise Science Degree from University of Georgia

  • Extra Training in Weight Management from Columbia/Cornell 

    • American Board of Obesity Medicine- eligible 

  • Board Certified in Emergency Medicine

Why I do this:

  • Previously very active with love of sports, resulting in reasons to study Exercise Science and Human and Applied physiology

  • Decreased after pregnancies and with busy life and schedule, medication addition- started to gain weight. 

    • Tried the diets

    • Counted calories

    • Tried the exercise programs

    • Tried the weight group

  • My interest in Obesity Medicine started and I started to get trained

    • Lost the weight through evidenced based medicine that I learned 

      • Did use medications safely

    • Keeping it off without medications for long term

  • Many family and friends struggle with increased weight

    • I saw the struggles of weight bias, the psychological and physical toll

    • Started treating with great results

  • Would like to use my skills to treat others to lose weight and keep it off. 

    • I want to get to know my patients no matter where they are in their weight loss journey

    • I will treat with known and emerging information for best practices that fit the patient individually

    • I would like to follow them even after goals achieve to keep the weight off as obesity is a disease and life long

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