Overview
Impact of obesity on health, health care delivery, quality of life.
Diet and other weight loss interventions
Preventive medicine
Diet and other weight loss interventions
Preventive medicine
Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Professor of Medicine
·
2021 - Present
Medicine, General Internal Medicine,
Medicine
Recent Scholarly Works
Partner Weight Loss and Diet Outcomes at 24 Months in a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Dyadic Versus Individual Weight Management Intervention.
Journal article Obes Sci Pract · August 2026 BACKGROUND: Including romantic partners as supports in behavioral weight management programs targeting index participants could yield spillover effects, but few studies have explored the effects on partners. METHODS: Dyads included an index participant wit ... Full text Link to item CiteStudy protocol for Log2Lose: A randomized controlled trial to evaluate financial incentives for dietary self-monitoring and interim weight loss in adults with obesity.
Journal article Contemp Clin Trials · September 2025 Although behavioral weight-loss programs are efficacious for achieving clinically significant weight loss, adherence to such programs is variable. Positive reinforcement through small financial incentives has shown promise for increasing adherence to behav ... Full text Link to item CiteOpportunities for General Internal Medicine to Promote Equity in Obesity Care.
Journal article J Gen Intern Med · July 2025 The number and complexity of obesity treatments has increased rapidly in recent years. This is driven by the approval of new anti-obesity medications (AOMs) that produce larger degrees of weight loss than previously approved AOMs. Unfortunately, access to ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
2/3 CTSA K12 Program at Duke University
ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences · 2025 - 2030TRANSFORM
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Cleerly, Inc · 2025 - 2030A gut sense for dietary lysine
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2026 - 2030View All Grants
Education
East Carolina University ·
1995
M.D.