Scott Kahan, MD, MPH, is director of the National Center for Weight and Wellness and medical director of the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance. He is a chair of The Obesity Society Clinical Committee and serves on the boards of directors of the American Board of Obesity Medicine, the Obesity Action Coalition, and the Obesity Treatment Foundation. He has faculty appointments at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Md., and the George Washington University (GWU) School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, D.C., and has previously served as director of the GWU Weight Management Program and associate director of the Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center. He received his undergraduate degree in bioengineering from Columbia University in New York, N.Y., his medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and his residency training at Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Kahan has advised the White House, U.S. congressmen, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and several U.S. surgeons general. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Obesity Solutions and has served on committees for the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. He is a member of the steering committee for the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/National Diabetes Education Program’s Guiding Principles for the Care of People With or At Risk for Diabetes. He has mentored dozens of young physicians and received several clinical and teaching awards, including the Obesity Action Coalition’s Healthcare Provider Advocate of the Year in 2015 and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ Outstanding Contribution Award in 2016.
Diabetes Spectrum associate editor Curtis L. Triplitt, PharmD, CDE, coordinated this From Research to Practice section.
