Dr Fatima Cody Stanford Photo: Supplied
Harvard Medical School Associate Professor Dr Fatima Cody Stanford has spent much of her career pushing for changes in the way the medical establishment thinks about and treats obesity.
Dr Stanford believes that continuing prejudice against people with obesity and a lack of recognition of it as a chronic health condition is an ongoing barrier to improved health outcomes.
She has long been an advocate for the use of medication to treat obesity, and is now at the forefront of discussion around the use of Ozempic and other similar medications as a treatment option.
Originally developed to treat type-2 diabetes the drug has become fashionable in Hollywood which in turn has led to a some shortages of the medication, as people turn to it for weight loss.
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