Center for Healthy Weight Team

The Center for Healthy Weight team includes medical, nutrition, public health, psychiatric and research specialists. They come from the world-class medical staff at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Every member of the team is dedicated to:

• Preventing obesity in children
• Eliminating the problems caused by obesity
• Restoring or maintaining patient health
• Promoting child and family health and well-being

Doctors, nurses and clinicians from other medical specialties also consult with the Center for Healthy Weight team.

Center for Healthy Weight director

• Thomas N. Robinson, MD, MPH - Director

Patient care

Pediatric Weight Clinic

• W. Elizabeth Shepard, MD - Medical Director
• Marwa Abu El Haija, MD
• Michelle Kaplinski, MD
• Sophia Yen, MD, MPH
• Elizabeth Cotter, RD

Pediatric Weight Control Program

• Nadia Al-Lami
• Julieta Bravo
• Inés Campero
• Andrea Chilton, RN
• Blanca Ezquerro
• Martha Gabaray Farfan
• Jonathan Nussur
• Susana Pearl
• Maria Elena Rizzo Locsin
• Thea Runyan, MPH
• Meredith Tuttle, RN
• Juanita Velasco
• Cindy Zedeck, MA - Director

Adolescent Bariatric Surgery

• Janey Pratt, MD

Research

Basic and Translational Science 

Clinical Research and Clinical Trials

• James Lock, MD, PhD
• Darrell M. Wilson, MD - Director

Prevention Science

• Kathryn Azevedo, PhD
• Joel D. Killen, PhD
• Donna M. Matheson, PhD
• Thomas N. Robinson, MD, MPH - Director
• Dana Weintraub, MD

Public Policy Research

• Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD
• Lisa Chamberlain, MD, MPH

Training and professional education

Pediatric Weight Control Program Training Institute

• Thomas N. Robinson, MD, MPH
• Cindy Zedeck, MA

Advocating for public policy change

Advocating for Public Policy Change

• Lisa Chamberlain, MD, MPH - Co-Director
• Sherri Sager - Co-Director
• Sophia Yen, MD, MPH