For people with diabetes, maintaining a healthy weight is crucial to ensure good health. But keeping weight under control is difficult, especially with so many weight management options to choose from. To help make sense of it all, host Dr. Steven Edelman welcomes Dr. Ken Fujioka, an expert at the forefront of obesity therapies, to discuss the most successful weight loss techniques.
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Ken Fujioka, MD is director of the Nutrition and Metabolic Research Center and a member of the Division of Diabetes and Endocrinology at the Scripps Clinic – Del Mar in San Diego, Calif. He is board certified in both internal medicine and clinical nutrition and has extensive experience in the treatment of weight management and nutritional disorders.
A native of southern California, Dr. Fujioka earned his medical degree from the University of Hawaii School of Medicine, in Honolulu, where he also completed his internship and residency training in internal medicine. His postgraduate training continued at the University of Southern California Medical Center, in Los Angeles, where he served a two-year fellowship in diabetes and clinical nutrition.
Dr. Fujioka has authored or co-authored more than 40 scientific papers and abstracts and he has completed more than 75 clinical trials in the field of obesity and other related diseases including diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, and hypertension. In 1997, he authored a comprehensive analysis of the appropriate treatment of the obese patient for the state of California, and he served as an expert witness for the Medical Board of California on the appropriate use of weight loss agents in the treatment of the obese patient. Dr. Fujioka also has addressed the Joint Steering Committee for Public Policy on Capitol Hill regarding obesity and nutritional supplements.
Currently he is a reviewer for The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Obesity Research, and Diabetes Care.