Ania Jastreboff, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Director, Weight Management & Obesity Prevention, Yale Stress Center
School of Medicine
Yale University
Biography
Dr. Jastreboff is an Obesity Medicine physician, board certified in Obesity Medicine, adult Endocrinology and Metabolism, and Pediatric Endocrinology. She is nationally and internationally recognized in the Obesity Medicine field for developing Clinical Practice Guidelines (2016) for The Comprehensive Care of Patients with Obesity (AACE/ACE), educating the next generation of Obesity Medicine physicians by teaching annually at the world renowned Harvard Blackburn Treating Obesity course and the Columbia/Cornell Obesity course, and conducting cutting-edge clinical translational obesity research. Her research includes both large, multi-center clinical outcomes trials using anti-obesity medication as well as neuroimaging studies (fMRI and PET) examining the neurobiology underlying obesity and the mechanisms of anti-obesity medications.