Our team recognizes that obesity is a complex disease. Every individual’s risk for development and persistence of obesity is influenced by a variety of factors ranging from eating behaviors, physical activity levels and sleep patterns to gender, age, developmental factors, genetic makeup, and the environments in which we live, work, learn, and play.
Our research team is focused on uncovering ways to tailor weight loss and management interventions to those individual needs so we can help patients achieve lasting success.
Mission & Goals
Our center’s mission focuses on research to:
- Advance understanding of the behavioral, biological and psychosocial aspects of obesity.
- Enhance the success and durability of obesity-related treatments.
- Promote the overall health and well-being of people living with obesity.
With this in mind, our goals are to:
- Study variability in obesity and treatment outcomes using rigorous and state-of-the-art assessment and analytic methodologies.
- Use patient data to inform development of more effective, personalized obesity treatments based on lifestyle, biological, sociodemographic and environmental variables.
- Develop, test, evaluate and refine innovative and evidence-based multimodal approaches to treating obesity and related metabolic comorbidities using surgical, pharmacological and behavioral interventions.
- Foster a multidisciplinary academic environment that provides research opportunities for students and scholars interested in investigating the epidemiology, pathophysiology and treatment of obesity and its comorbidities.