Age: 41
Residence: Squirrel Hill
Family: Fiancee, Susie Burke
Occupation: Clinical director of Children's Hospital's Weight Management and Wellness Center and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Education: Bachelor's degree in physiology and medical degree, both from the McGill University School of Medicine; residency at St. Joseph's Health Centre at the University of Toronto and a fellowship in faculty development at UPMC St. Margaret; pursuing a master's degree in business administration at Pitt.
Background: Director of medical informatics at St. Margaret 1996 to 2002; pre-doctoral director in Pitt's Department of Family Medicine, 2002-04; clinical director of Children's Weight Management and Wellness Center since 2004; member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine; member of the American Medical Association's panel of childhood obesity experts.
Noteworthy: Authored an article on the panel's recommendations to treat and prevent childhood obesity in this month's "American Family Physician," a journal of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Quote: "It raises awareness among physicians that they need to start addressing this more seriously."
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