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Jamy Ard, MD is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Prevention and the Department of Medicine at Wake Forest School of Medicine and interim Associate Dean for Research. He is also co-director of the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Weight Management Center, directing medical weight management programs. Dr. Ard’s research interests include clinical management of obesity and strategies to improve cardiometabolic risk using lifestyle modification. Dr. Ard has more than 25 years of experience in clinical nutrition and obesity. He has served on several expert panels and guideline development committees, including the 2013 AHA/ACC/TOS Guideline Panel on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults, and the USDA’s 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. 

Dr. Scott Kahan is a physician trained in both clinical medicine and public health. His clinical practice specializes in weight management and obesity medicine. He obtained his medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania, and his residency training and Public Health degrees from Johns Hopkins University.  Dr. Kahan serves as Director of the National Center for Weight and Wellness, a multidisciplinary obesity treatment clinic in Washington, DC.  In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Kahan also works as a public health physician specializing in obesity treatment and prevention. He has held faculty appointments at Johns Hopkins University, George Washington University, and George Mason University. He is a peer reviewer for more than 50 scientific journals and has published more than 200 journal articles, book chapters, and textbooks.

Dr. Lofton is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery at NYU Langone Health, where she has served as director of the Medical Weight Management Program at  NYU Langone Health Weight Management Program since 2012. Here, she 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 is currently involved in clinical research pertaining to the pharmacotherapy to treat weight regain after bariatric surgery as well as clinical drug trials. In her faculty role, Dr. Lofton continues to educate students and other physicians about diagnosing and treating obesity. She also educates the general public about the importance of maintaining a healthy weight through lectures, workshops, written, audio, and video media.  She has served on the board of the Obesity Action Coalition and on the Bariatric Medicine committee for the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. In 2016, she became a founding member of the NYU Comprehensive Program on Obesity and leads the Education and Clinical Access divisions of the program as well as directing the Clinical Obesity Medicine Fellowship.

Jay H. Shubrook, DO is a Board-Certified family physician and a Fellowship trained Diabetologist. He is a Professor at Touro University California where he also serves as the Director of Diabetes Services. His research focus is on the prevention and early intervention for type 2 diabetes. He clinical and professional focus is on better training the primary care workforce to be prepared to help people manage diabetes. He is the Associate Editor of Clinical Diabetes and is the Chair of the Board of the American College of Diabetology. He was honored to serve on the AGA steering and writing committee for the NASH: A call to action guidelines for evaluation and treatment of NASH.