Obesity Medicine Fellowship

The one-year Obesity Medicine Fellowship is a collaboration between Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans School of Medicine, and Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center. The fellowship is for graduates of an ACGME approved residency in medical disciplines (ie. internal medicine, family medicine, endocrinology) and provides outstanding specialty training by renowned experts at Pennington Biomedical in Baton Rouge and LSU Health in New Orleans.

The aim of the fellowship is to provide expert guidance and training in obesity medicine to enable trainees to develop subspecialty expertise in comprehensive obesity management. Oversight of the fellowship is provided by the Obesity Medicine Fellowship Council, LSU Health-New Orleans School of Medicine Graduate Medical Education, and LSU Health-New Orleans Department of Medicine. Upon completion of the one-year fellowship, graduates will be eligible to apply for board certification in Obesity Medicine by the American Board of Obesity Medicine.

The fellowship training will primarily take place at the Metamor Institute on the Pennington Biomedical campus in Baton Rouge, La. Pennington Biomedical is the world’s largest academic obesity/nutrition research center and the most prolific with more than 7,800 publications in obesity and nutrition in the world’s top medical journals.

Curriculum includes:

Adult medical obesity therapy
Pediatric medical obesity therapy
Lifestyle-based obesity therapy
Surgical obesity therapy
Didactic curriculum on the science and clinical aspects of obesity

The Obesity Medicine Fellowship Program curriculum consists of more than 50 percent clinical obesity medicine training and teaching.

Apply:

To apply to our program, visit the Obesity Medicine Fellowship Council website and apply through the OMFC standard application: https://omfellowship.org/application/.