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Our team has comprehensive experience in the research and practice of metabolic health and is dedicated to helping you feel your best while you are becoming your best.
Gary Taubes
Gary Taubes is the author of Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control and Disease (Knopf, 2007).
Taubes studied applied physics as an undergraduate at Harvard and has master’s degrees in engineering from Stanford University (1978) and journalism from Columbia University (1981). He began writing and reporting on science and medicine for Discover magazine in 1982. As a free-lance journalist, he’s written for Science, where he’s been a contributing correspondent since 1993, for The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and a host of other publications. Taubes has won numerous awards for his reporting including the International Health Reporting Award from the Pan American Health Organization and the National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Journalism Award, which he won in 1996, 1999 and 2001. (He is the only print journalist to win this award three times.) Taubes is also the author of Nobel Dreams (Random House 1987) and Bad Science (Random House, 1993), a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Awards.
Dr. Mary Vernon
Dr. Mary Vernon is a Past President of the American Society of Bariatric Medicine. She is Board certified in Bariatric Medicine, Family Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Care. She is also a Certified Medical Director, Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, and Fellow of the American Society of Bariatricians. Dr. Vernon is an international expert on the use of ketogenic diets. Dr. Vernon’s clinical expertise treating patients appears in publications on the use of low carbohydrate diets to treat diabetes and metabolic syndrome. She co-wrote “Atkins Diabetes Revolution" to share this information with the public.
Dr. Mary Vernon is a Past President of the American Society of Bariatric Medicine. She is Board certified in Bariatric Medicine, Family Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Care. She is also a Certified Medical Director, Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, and Fellow of the American Society of Bariatricians. Dr. Vernon is an international expert on the use of ketogenic diets. Dr. Vernon’s clinical expertise treating patients appears in publications on the use of low carbohydrate diets to treat diabetes and metabolic syndrome. She co-wrote “Atkins Diabetes Revolution" to share this information with the public.
Dr. Eric Westman
Dr. Eric C. Westman is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke University, and Director of the Duke Lifestyle Medicine Clinic. He combines clinical research and clinical care regarding lifestyle treatments for obesity, diabetes, and tobacco dependence. He is internationally known for his work on low-carbohydrate nutrition. He is currently the Vice President of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians, and a Fellow of the Obesity Society and the Society of General Internal Medicine.