Welcome to the OMA Blog

For Alina Elperin, MD, DABOM, medicine has always been about more than diagnosing and treating disease. As an internal medicine physician and Diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine since 2016, her passion lies within prevention.

For the past decade, Al Robaina, MD, DABOM, has been helping patients as a board-certified internal medicine physician, helping patients with a variety of conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, and lipid disorders. But as he looked deeper at the root causes of many of those diseases, he realized there was one disease that seemed to be linked to them all: obesity.

For Aradhna Saraswat, MD, DABOM, obesity medicine is about more than helping patients reach their health goals; it’s about creating a space where they can be vulnerable, heard and understood.

For more than 40 years, Deborah Juda, RD, LDN, has dedicated her career to helping people better understand nutrition, weight management and obesity care.

For years, Alicia Shelly, MD, DABOM, built meaningful relationships with patients through primary care, helping them navigate life’s challenges and celebrating their successes along the way. Today, as a board-certified internal medicine physician and a Diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine, Dr. Shelly practices obesity medicine full-time, helping patients through comprehensive and compassionate obesity care.