For as long as I can remember, my sister Rita talked about feeling shamed by her doctors because of her weight. She suffered many of the health complications that arise from excess weight, and needed her doctors to be her partner.

That’s not how she was treated.

It was only after she died from complications of obesity in 2015 that I realized that there was something I could have done. I studied Obesity Medicine, and learned that weight gain has a biology and can be understood, treated, managed.

And no matter your weight, better health is possible.

I want to bring what I have learned to all Ohioans, in my sister’s memory, to help you on a journey to better health.