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Clinical Director, NCCO
Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine
An internationally recognized expert in the care of overweight and obese patients, Dr. Kushner helps patients manage their weight with state-of-the art approaches including diet, exercise, behavioral change, pharmacotherapy and bariatric surgery. He is President of The Obesity Society (TOS) and Past President of both the American Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists (ABPNS) and the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN). Dr. Kushner serves on the editorial boards of prominent journals such as Obesity, Obesity Management, the Journal of the American Dietetic Association and Today’s Diet and Nutrition. He has authored numerous articles, reviews, books and book chapters. Among his recent books are Counseling Overweight Adults: The Lifestyle Patterns Approach and Toolkit, the American Medical Association’s Assessment and Management of Obesity, Dr. Kushner’s Personality Type Diet, Treatment of the Obese Patient and Fitness Unleashed: A Dog and Owner’s Guide to Losing Weight and Gaining Health Together. Dr. Kushner received his medical degree from the University of Illinois, completed his residency in internal medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, completed a post-graduate fellowship in clinical nutrition at the University of Chicago Hospitals and received his master’s degree in clinical nutrition and nutritional biology at the University of Chicago. Areas of specialty nutrition, obesity, peri-operative care of the bariatric surgical patient, lifestyle medicine, life patterns approach to weight loss For more, read http://www.medicine.northwestern.edu/scripts/bio.pl?pid=400 http://www.counselingoverweightadults.com
Recent Publications
Kushner RF, Kushner N, Jackson Blatner D. Counseling Overweight Adults: The Lifestyle Patterns Approach and Tool Kit, American Dietetic Association, Chicago, IL, 2008. Kushner RF. Aronne LJ. Chapter 8: Obesity and the primary care physician. In:GA
Bray and C Bouchard, Eds. Handbook of Obesity: Clinical Applications, 3rd Eds. Informa Healthcare Pub.l, New York, NY, 2008, pp 117-130. Kushner RF. Evaluation and Management of Obesity. Chapter 75. In: Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. DL. Kasper, E Braunwald, AS. Fauci, S Hauser, DL. Longo, JL. Jameson, and KJ. Isselbacher, Eds. 17th Edition, McGraw-Hill Companies, Publ, NY, 2008. pp 468-473. Mechanick JI, Kushner RF, Sugerman HJ, for the writing group. Executive summary of the recommendations of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, The Obesity Society, and American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery medical guidelines for clinical practice for the perioperative nutritional, metabolic, and nonsurgical support of the bariatric surgery patient. Endocrine Practice 14(3):318-336, 2008. Kushner RF. Anti-obesity drugs. Exper Opin Pharmacother 9(8):1339-1350, 2008. Kushner RF. Companion dogs as weight loss partners. Obesity Management 4(5):232-235, 2008. |
