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Appendix C: Speaker and Facilitator Biographies
Appendix C: Speaker and Facilitator Biographies
Pages 89-102
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Weill professor of metabolic research at Weill-Cornell Medicine, where he directs the Comprehensive Weight Control Center. He is chairman of the American Board of Obesity Medicine and a past president of The Obesity Society (TOS)
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, where he served in a number of roles, including executive director for BCBSNC's federally qualified health maintenance organization and as senior vice president, health care and chief medical officer. His accomplishments there include production of the company's first primary care provider profiles/reports, implementation of BCBSNC's first fully transparent online medical policy, development and successful marketing of the State of Preventive Health Summits, development and implementation of the country's first Bariatric Surgery Centers of Excellence in collaboration with the American Society of Bariatric Surgery, development of an officebased endoscopy network (so members could obtain endoscopy services for an office copay rather than a deductible and co-insurance)
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Institute for Healthy Child Weight; site lead for the PEDsNET Healthy Weight Collaborative; and co-director for the Obesity Expert Exchange program, supported by AAP and CHA. She is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Obesity Solutions.
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as director of wellness programs. She was previously program director of the Weight Management Program and Executive Health Program at the University of California, Irvine, working with a multidisciplinary staff in a medical office setting focusing exclusively on weight management and risk factor reduction.
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, the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, and the American Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists; immediate past chair of the American Board of Obesity Medicine; past board member of the Obesity Action Coalition; and co-editor of Current Obesity Reports. He was recently awarded the 2016 Clinician-of-the-Year Award by TOS.
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At ConscienHealth, he devotes half of his work to nonprofit advocacy, serving The Obesity Society's Advocacy Committee, the Steering Committee for the STOP Obesity Alliance, and the Board of Directors for the Obesity Action Coalition.
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Under Dr. Michalsky's leadership, the center's Adolescent Bariatric Surgery Program has become recognized both nationally and internationally for its clinical excellence related to surgical outcomes, as well as its long-standing participation in the Teen-Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (Teen-LABS) study, an ongoing multicenter National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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Dr. Michalsky has published numerous peer-reviewed articles on clinical outcomes related to bariatric surgical intervention in the adolescent population and has served in leadership positions on committees for various national organizations, including the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, American Pediatric Surgical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, and American College of Surgeons.
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He currently serves on the dean's advisory board of the University of Michigan School of Public Health, the Presidential Scholars Foundation board of directors, and the board of directors of WaterAid America. He has spoken widely and written extensively on a variety of health topics, such as chronic care management, population health, value in health care, and the need for health and human services integration.
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Dr. Rao is immediate past chair of the American Heart Association's Obesity Committee, and most recently was clinical professor of medicine at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.
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She has been regional vice president at a food and nutrition management consulting firm and has owned her own consulting practice. She has worked in acute care inpatient services, outpatient services, long-term care, home care, wellness, consultation and business practice, and community health programs with populations ranging from pediatrics to geriatrics.
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He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers in clinical obesity research, including publications in the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, and Annals of Internal Medicine. His primary research interests include obesity treatment in primary care settings and the economics of obesity treatment.
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In recognition of her innovative work in the area of childhood obesity, Dr. Woolford served as co-medical director of the Children's Hospital Association's Expert Exchange on childhood obesity and is a member of the Advisory Board of the American Academy of Pediatrics Institute for Healthy Childhood Weight.
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