MOVE! Weight Management Program

Louis J. Aronne, MD, FACP Director, Comprehensive Weight Control Program NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine Weill Medical College, Cornell University Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine Columbia University Assistant Attending Physician New York Presbyterian Hospital Louis Aronne, MD, FACP has been involved in obesity research and treatment since 1986. Dr. Aronne is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, and an Assistant Attending Physician at the New York Presbyterian Hospital. He developed and is Director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Program, a multidisciplinary obesity research and treatment center. Dr. Aronne was chairman of the development committee for the Practical Guide to the Identification, Evaluation and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults, a joint publication of the National Institutes of Health and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the North American Association for the Study of Obesity. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Trinity College and a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Aronne's research has focused on determining the response of the nervous system to weight loss and weight gain as part of a larger effort to understand how the body regulates energy intake and metabolism and to develop more effective treatments for obesity. Dr. Aronne has won several awards for teaching during his career including the Davidoff Prize from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Eliot Hochstein Award from Cornell University. A Fellow of the American College of Physicians, Dr. Aronne is a member of many professional societies including Alpha Omega Alpha, Phi Beta Kappa, and the North American Association for the Study of Obesity (NAASO); Dr. Aronne is currently President of NAASO. Dr. Aronne has lectured widely on obesity, its health consequences, and treatment to many physician and professional organizations. He is the author of Weigh Less, Live Longer.