Editorial Staff

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Editor-in-Chief

Michael Jensen, MD, FTOS

Professor of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, Nutrition
Department of Internal Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Associate Editor-in-Chief

Leanne M. Redman, MS, PhD, FTOS

Professor
Associate Executive Director, Scientific Education
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Associate Editors

Michelle Cardel, PhD, MS, RD, FTOS

Senior Director, Global Clinical Research & Nutrition
WeightWatchers
New York, New York, USA
Adjunct Professor and Associate Director
Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics and Center for Integrative Cardiovascular & Metabolic Disease
University of Florida College of Medicine
Gainesville, Florida, USA

Matthew M. Clark, PhD, FTOS

Professor of Psychology
Chair for Research, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology
David H. Murdock-Dole Food Company Professor of Nutrition
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota, USA

David Fields, PhD, FTOS

Associate Professor
Children's Hospital Foundation
Chickasaw Nation Endowed Chair
Associate Director, Metabolic Research Program
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

Jose E. Galgani, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Health Sciences, Nutrition & Dietetics
Department of Nutrition, Diabetes and Metabolism
School of Medicine
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Santiago, Chile
Adjunct Associate Professor
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Leonie Heilbronn, PhD

Associate Professor
Group Leader, Obesity and Metabolism
Adelaide Medical School
The University of Adelaide
Adelaide, South Australia

Gang Hu, MD, MPH, PhD

Professor
Director, Chronic Disease Epidemiology Lab
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

John M. Jakicic, PhD, FTOS, FACSM

Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Division of Physical Activity and Weight Management
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, Kansas, USA

Todd Andrew Kellogg, MD

Director of Bariatric Surgery
Program Director, Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship
Division of Endocrine & Metabolic Surgery, Department of Surgery
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Seema Kumar, MD

Professor of Pediatrics
Medical Director, Pediatric Weight Management Clinic
Chair, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology
Program Director, Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship
Department of Pediatrics
Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Ian R. Lanza

Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic 
Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Alex Miras, MD, PhD

Professor
Clinical Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine
Full Professor, Faculty of Life & Health Sciences
Ulster University
Londonberry, Northern Ireland

Bettina Mittendorfer, PhD

Senior Associate Dean for Research
Director, NextGen Clinical and Translational Science Unit
University of Missouri School of Medicine
Columbia, Missouri, USA

Lu Qi, MD, PhD, FAHA

Interim Chair, Department of Epidemiology
HCA Regents Distinguished Chair and Professor
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Director, Tulane University Obesity Research Center
Director, Tulane Personalized Health Institute
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

R. Scott Rector, PhD, FTOS

Associate Professor of Medicine and Research Health Scientist
Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology and Medicine-Gastroenterology
University of Missouri and Truman VA
Columbia, Missouri, USA

Meera Shah, MBChB

Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism and Nutrition
Mayo Clinic 
Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Jacqueline M. Stephens, PhD, FTOS

Claude B. Pennington Jr. Endowed Chair in Biomedical Research
Professor, Adipocyte Biology
Pennington Biomedical Research Center/ Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Nicholas Timpson, PhD

Professor of Genetic Epidemiology
MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit
Bristol Medical School, Population Health Sciences 
University of Bristol
Bristol, UK

Qingchun Tong, PhD

Professor
Institute of Molecular Medicine of McGovern Medical School
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, Texas, USA

Adrian Vella, MD, FRCP(Edin.)

Earl and Annette R. McDonough Professor of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Thomas A. Wadden, PhD, FTOS

Albert J. Stunkard Professor in Psychiatry
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Editorial Board

Stephanie Anzman-Frasca, PhD

University at Buffalo

Deniz Atasoy, PhD

University of Iowa

Amanda Brandon, PhD

University of Sydney

Ariana Chao, PhD

Johns Hopkins University

Andrea Deierlein, PhD, MPH

New York University

Robert Dubin, MD

Pennington Biomedical Research Center

Melissa L. Erickson, PhD

Translational Research Institute AdventHealth

Adam Gilden, MD

University of Colorado

Allison Holgerson, PhD

University of Florida

Marc S. Jacobson, MD

Tucson Hospitals Medical Education Program

Afton Koball, PhD

Mayo Clinic

Simon Laplante, MD

University of Toronto

Mi-Jeong Lee, PhD

University of Hawaii

Hao Ma, MD, PhD

Tulane University

Steven K. Malin, PhD

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Catia Martins, PhD

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Cassie M. Mitchell, PhD

University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Babak Orandi, MD, PhD

NYU Langone

Milan Piya, FRACP, PhD

Western Sydney University

Max Petersen, MD, PhD

Washington University School of Medicine

Yun Shen, MD

Pennington Biomedical Research Center

Yanchuan Shi, MD, PhD

Garvan Institute of Medical Research

Xuan Wang, PhD

Tulane University

Nathan Winn, PhD

Vanderbilt University

Faris Zuraikat, PhD

Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Managing Editor

Allison Templet

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