Obesity Medicine Specialist

Tulane University School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Section of MIS/Bariatrics and Family Medicine is recruiting for a faculty position a clinician specializing in Obesity Medicine to:

• See new consultations for medical weight loss patients
• Follow up patients for medical weight loss (patients typically follow up monthly for medical weight loss so this would lead to exponential growth)
• Manage any patients who need medical weight loss prior to surgery
• Manage any patients who have weight regain after surgical weight loss
• Redirect inquiries for those who qualify or have interest in surgical weight loss to the bariatric program
• Support the establishment of an accredited medical weight loss center with the ASMBS

The below list breaks down the job into specific areas of focus

Obesity screening/prevention

• Screening patients for obesity and obesity-related/metabolic conditions
  • Body Composition/Metabolic Assessment
  • Diet and Physical Activity Measurement
  • Behavioral assessment
  • Obesity phenotypes

Clinical Management

• • evaluating
  • diagnosing
  • and treating specific obesity-related/metabolic conditions

Obesity Treatment

• • multi-disciplinary approach for providing treatment recommendations
  • nutritional/behavioral therapy
  • pharmacological
  • non-surgical
  • surgical

Long-Term Maintenance Therapy

• • patient retention
  • behavioral preference-reinforcement value

Board certified or board eligible in specific field

Having completed a fellowship in bariatric medicine or been practicing for at least 2 years as an obesity medicine specialist

Passed the American board of obesity medicine exam