Amanda Velazquez is an assistant professor of medicine and surgery and the director of obesity medicine at the Center for Weight Management and Metabolic Health at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Velazquez is passionate about achieving healthy equity and reducing health disparities through increased access to the treatments for obesity, improving obesity medicine and nutrition education efforts for medical trainees and health care professionals, and cultivating systematic health care change through preventive medicine efforts. Her research interests have focused on pharmacotherapy treatments of obesity, medical education of obesity medicine and nutrition, and reducing weight bias and stigma among health care professionals.
Previously
The first drug in a class known as GLP-1 agonists was approved in 2005 to treat diabetes. GLP-1 drugs subsequently proved their mettle to treat obesity and prevent major cardi...