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Personal Philosophy: I have devoted my medical career to research, treatment,
and teaching about the disease of obesity. I believe obesity is a complex disease of many causes,
one of which is viral infection. I and the scientists at Obetech will do everything possible to
learn the causes of obesity and how to treat, or even better, to prevent it.
Background: Dr. Richard Atkinson
is from Petersburg, Virginia, and attended Virginia
Military Institute and the Medical College of
Virginia. After residency training at UCLA Harbor
General Hospital, Torrance, California, he had
Fellowship training in Endocrinology-Metabolism
at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and at UCLA
Harbor General Hospital. He has been on the faculties
of the medical schools at the University of Virginia;
University of California, Davis; Eastern Virginia
Medical School; and the University of Wisconsin,
Madison. Currently Dr. Atkinson is Emeritus Professor
of Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at the University
of Wisconsin, Madison and Clinical Professor of
Pathology at Virginia Commonwealth University.
He serves as the Editor of the International Journal
of Obesity. He is President and Co-Founder of
the American Obesity Association, Past President
of the North American Association for the Study
of Obesity (NAASO) and the American Society for
Clinical Nutrition (ASCN), and Vice President
of the Dannon Institute, a non-profit nutrition
foundation. Dr. Atkinson served as Chair of the
Nutrition Study Section for the National Institutes
of Health and Chair of the Committee on Military
Weight Management for the National Academy of
Sciences. Dr. Atkinson has been a consultant for
the National Institutes of Health, National Academy
of Sciences, Department of Veterans Affairs, US
Food and Drug Administration, US Department of
Agriculture, US Federal Trade Commission, and
more than 30 companies and non-profit foundations.
He is married to Susan Hume Atkinson and has three
children and 12 grandchildren.
Dr. Atkinson has published more than 160 manuscripts and more than 200 abstracts in the medical literature.
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