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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Planning Committee Members
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Planning Committee Members
Pages 117-130
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He is also codirector of the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Weight Management Center, directing medical weight management programs. After his residency training, he was selected to serve as a chief resident in internal medicine at Duke.
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She established a pediatric weight management program at St. Louis University and was the medical director of the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Childhood Obesity.
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Blankenship has emphasized the need for comprehensive obesity treatment in her advocacy efforts. She also oversees state government relations, including consumer protection and licensure initiatives, grass roots advocacy, and regulatory affairs.
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She is the secretary for the Washington Obesity Society, vice chair of the advisory board for the Commission on Dietetic Registration's Obesity Certificate training program, the Obesity Medicine Association's algorithm committee, an associate editor for Obesity Pillars journal, a member of an international research collaboration, an item writer for the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Board Certification examination, and a doctoral student at the University of Southern Mississippi. She received an M.S.
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She was the director of the Center for Healthy Weight and Nutrition at Nationwide Children's Hospital/Ohio State Uni versity, Columbus, Ohio, a nationally recognized tertiary care pediatric obesity center with activities that include advocacy, prevention, medical weight management, bariatric surgery, and research. She is a coauthor of the 2023 AAP Clinical Practice Guideline on Childhood Obesity.
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and received its McKeen-Cattell Award in 1985, Distinguished Service Award in 2001, and Distinguished Investigator Award in 2002. He received the 2005 Research Achievement Award in Clinical Sciences from the American Association of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Distinguished Faculty Award from TUSM in 2015, and 2016 Award in Excellence in Clinical Pharmacology from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation, through ASCPT.
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He has a strong history of health care advocacy and public affairs with employers, plans, hospitals, and consumer organizations. He was director of health policy for the Purchaser Business Group on Health, a member of National Alliance, where he ran efforts to improve quality and affordability for consumers and health care purchasers through federal policy.
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Langone Health, where she has served as director of the Medical Weight Management Program since 2012 and designed the popular New You weight loss program to help her patients obtain results while fostering nutrition education and placing emphasis on a healthy lifestyle. She has served on the board of the Obesity Action Coalition and bariatric medicine committee for the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
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, where he provides clinical and public health expertise across the organization. Since 2015, he has led specific efforts tackling a variety of policy issues, including the COVID-19 pandemic, future of public health, opioid crisis, obesity epidemic and nutrition, health and housing, domestic and global HIV/AIDS, business and public health collaboration, emergency preparedness, social isolation, rural health, and prescription drug costs.
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She serves on the national board of directors of the Obesity Action Coalition and is a research assistant professor of psychology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS)
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She was an investigator on the Preventing Overweight Using Novel Dietary Strategies Lost study, Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes) trial, Diabetes Prevention Program, DASH, and many other studies of the health benefits of weight loss by diet, lifestyle intervention and medications.
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She recently joined the national board of directors of the Obesity Action Coalition, a national nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness and improving access to obesity prevention and treatment. She is also the founder of Village Empowerment Solutions, a consulting business focused on supporting organizations in developing strategies that improve health outcomes for people living with chronic diseases.
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Independent Research Award and a K24 Mid-Career Investigator award. She is a fellow of TOS and serves as its clinical care councilor, a past chair of the TOS Pediatric Obesity Section, and an active member of the TOS Advocacy Committee.
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Wilfley serves on the advisory boards for the AAP Institute for Healthy Childhood Weight and the Minnesota and Alabama Obesity Nutrition Obesity Research C enters. She is devoted to understanding the mechanisms by which treatments work and translating basic behavioral science findings into novel treatment approaches to improve outcomes.
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