Ep. 270 Dr. Holly Lofton talks obesity medicine meds and more!

Dr. Holly Lofton is today's Weight Wednesday podcast drop guest! We talk all things obesity medicine and Joinfridays.com which delivers obesity medicine care across the country.Dr. Lofton is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery at NYU Langone Health, where shehas 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 trainees and other physicians about diagnosing and treating obesity as well as weight bias. 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 Program Director of the Clinical Obesity Medicine Fellowship. Follow Dr. Holly Lofton on social media @drhollylofton Email all questions, comments and consulting requests to me anytime at [email protected] And of course please follow me on instagram and threads @justjennyhutt and tiktok/twitter @jennyhutt.  Thank you for your sharing episodes you love with your community. Every download is appreciated! To join my Patreon and support my doing this podcast please subscribe Patreon.com/jennyhutt it is only $5/month and you get the video of each episode!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.