Professional Bio
Gitanjali Srivastava, MD, FACP, FAAP, is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism and Professor of Pediatrics and Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is the director of Clinical Obesity Medicine, program director of the Obesity Medicine Fellowship, and co-director of the Vanderbilt Weight Loss Center at VUMC.
Dr. Srivastava is a Diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine, Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine, and the American Board of Pediatrics. She is also the vice-chair of the Obesity Medicine Fellowship Council and Tennessee's State Official Expert for the Chronic Weight Management Task Force.
She is the lead PI in several upcoming novel anti-obesity pharmacotherapy clinical trials. She is an internationally and nationally recognized obesity medicine educator and has expertise in the sophisticated application of anti-obesity pharmacotherapy in adults and adolescents.
Dr. Srivastava was the lead author on published standards of care in adolescent pharmacotherapy and has had numerous publications in outcomes research, obesity practice management & health economics, pediatric obesity including genetic obesity, obesity public policy, weight regain post-bariatric surgery. She has taught at several courses including the Blackburn Course in Obesity Medicine, where she was the founder of the now popular Obesity Medicine Board Review Course.
She has been instrumental in the development and design of obesity models of care, standardization of adult and pediatric obesity care, and obesity curriculum for postgraduate medical education.
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Education
MD - Louisiana State University, 2003
Residency - Internal Med & Peds - Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 2007
Fellowship - Obesity Medicine & Clinical Nutrition - Massachusetts General Hospital, 2013
Fellowship - Medicine - Harvard University, 2013
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307