A distinguished Scientific Advisory Board

The role of our Scientific Advisory Board is to continually review the effectiveness, safety, and nutritional benefits of our products and programs. Our Scientific Advisory Board is composed of a distinguished panel of scientists and physicians from leading universities across the United States.

The work of this cross-disciplinary group builds on our heritage of a medically sound approach to healthy living and the incorporation of leading-edge, clinical research into the company's products and programs.

Lawrence Cheskin, MD

Medifast Scientific Advisory Board Chairman Associate Professor of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Director, Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center

Simon Barquera, MD, PhD

President of the Nutrition Board of Professors at the Mexican School of Public Health and Director of Research on Nutrition Policies and Programs, National Institute of Public Health

Susan Barr, PhD, RD

Professor, Food Nutrition and Health, University of British Columbia

George Bray, MD (not pictured)

Boyd Professor Emeritus and Professor of Medicine Emeritus at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University

John Foreyt, PhD

Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine

Steven Heymsfield, MD

Professor and Chair, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University

Mark Messina, PhD (not pictured)

President, Nutrition Matters and Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Loma Linda University

Sylvia B. Rowe

President of SR Strategy and Adjunct Professor at Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and University of Massachusetts, Amherst