Our Academic Advisors

RANDALL STAFFORD, MD

Clinical Director & Professor, Stanford Prevention Research Center

LAWRENCE CHESKIN, MD

Director, Weight Loss Clinic, Johns Hopkins

JUDITH KORNER, MD/PHD

Professor, Columbia University Medical Center;

Founder, Weight Control Center

HOLLY LOFTON, MD

Assistant Professor, NYU Langone Medical Center

FATIMA CODY STANFORD, MD/MPH/MPA

Obesity Medicine Physician, Harvard Massachusetts General Hospital

CAROLINE APOVIAN, MD

Past President, The Obesity Society;

Professor, Boston University School of Medicine

ARNIE MILSTEIN, MD

Director, Stanford Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC)

SUNEIL KOLIWAD, MD/PHD

Assistant Professor, UCSF

EDUARDO GRUNVALD, MD

Professor and Medical Director, UCSD Weight Management Program

HALA MANDANAT, PHD

Professor, SDSU School of Public Health

REGINA BENJAMIN, MD

Former U.S. Surgeon General

PETER FARRELL

Chairman of the Board, ResMed

JOHN BROOKS, III

Managing Director, Health Care Capital LLC;

Former President & CEO, Joslin Diabetes Center

TOM RAFFIN, MD

General Partner, Telegraph Hill Partners;

Professor Emeritus, Stanford

JUKKA VALKONNEN

Former Director, Innovations Blue Shield CA

NICHOLAS VASSILAKIS

Founder & CEO, Astute Inc.; Wireless Business Development; Cambridge Consultants Ltd.

TOM SOUNHEIN

CEO, XIMED

JOSEPH SMITH, MD

CEO, Reflexion Health;

Former CSO, West Health

THOMAS SAMMON

Former CTO, AOL

TODD BENNETT

Principal, Barney and Barney, a division of Marsh

ANTHONY MAIDA, PHD/MA/MBA

Senior Vice President, Clinical Research, Northwest Biotherapeutics, Inc.

ALLAN GOODMAN, MD

Catdiothoracic Surgeon, Sharp Healthcare

DANIEL CHIU

CTO, Chiubaka Technologies;

Harvard InciteHealth Fellow

SANDRA CARTER, PHD

CEO, M2 Ingredients

JASON FUNG, MD

Founder, Intensive Dietary Management (IDM);

Author of Best-selling book, The Obesity Code