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George A. Bray, M.D.
is Chief of the Division of Clinical Obesity and Metabolism at the Pennington
Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is also Boyd Professor
at Louisiana State University and Professor of Medicine at LSU Medical School,
New Orleans. Dr. Bray is an internationally recognized authority on both obesity
and diabetes. He has authored over 1300 scientific papers and abstracts, delivered
over 200 invited lectures, and given over 100 radio and television interviews on
topics related to his research interests. Dr. Bray is currently a researcher for the
Diabetes Prevention Program and for Look AHEAD, two multi-center clinical trials
funded by the National Institutes of Health that are designed to examine the relationship
between weight management, obesity, diabetes and overall health risk. From 1989 to 1999
Dr. Bray served as the first Executive Director of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center.
Previously, Dr. Bray was Chief of Diabetes and Clinical Nutrition at the Los Angeles
County-University of Southern California Medical Center and Professor of Medicine and
Physiology/Biophysics at the University of Southern California Medical Center in
Los Angeles. Dr. Bray received his A.B. degree as valedictorian from Brown University
and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School.
Ken Fujioka, M.D.
is director of the Nutrition and Metabolic Research Center and a member of the Division of Diabetes and
Endocrinology at the Scripps Clinic - Del Mar in San Diego, Calif. He is board certified in both internal
medicine and clinical nutrition and has extensive experience in the treatment of weight management and
nutritional disorders. A native of southern California, Dr. Fujioka earned his medical degree from the
University of Hawaii School of Medicine in Honolulu, where he also completed his internship and residency
training in internal medicine. His postgraduate training continued at the University of Southern California
Medical Center, in Los Angeles, where he served a two-year fellowship in diabetes and clinical nutrition.
Dr. Fujioka has authored or co-authored more than 50 scientific papers and abstracts and he has completed
more than 75 clinical trials in the field of obesity and other related diseases including diabetes,
hypercholesterolemia, and hypertension. In 1997, he authored a comprehensive analysis of the appropriate
treatment of the obese patient for the state of California, and he served as an expert witness for the
Medical Board of California on the appropriate use of weight loss agents in the treatment of the obese
patient. Dr. Fujioka also has addressed the Joint Steering Committee for Public Policy on Capital Hill
regarding obesity and nutritional supplements. Currently, he is a reviewer for The Journal of the
American Medical Association (JAMA), Obesity Research, Diabetes Care, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and
Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism
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