Joseph “Joey” A. Skelton, MD, MS, FAAP, FTOS, is a Professor of Pediatrics at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He serves as Director of Brenner FIT® (Families In Training), an interdisciplinary pediatric obesity treatment, prevention, research, and education program. He received a BS from Furman University (Greenville, SC), an MD from the University of Tennessee, Memphis College of Medicine, and a Master’s of Health Sciences Research from Wake Forest University. He completed his pediatric residency and pediatric gastroenterology fellowship from the Medical College of Wisconsin/Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. He is board-certified in Pediatrics and Obesity Medicine. His research focuses on family-based treatment of children with obesity. His clinical work involves the interdisciplinary treatment of obesity, integrating family-centered approaches, community engagement, culinary medicine, and parenting education.

Dr. Aaron Kelly is a Professor of Pediatrics, the Minnesota American Legion Chair in Children’s Health, and the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Center for Pediatric Obesity Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School. As a physiologist and clinical trialist, he has more than 20 years of experience conducting intervention studies for the treatment of pediatric/adolescent obesity and has published more than 190 peer-reviewed papers on this and related topics. Dr. Kelly’s research program has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 2011. He is a leader in pediatric obesity medicine and has been heavily involved in the development and evaluation of obesity medications for adolescents and children. He is actively involved in numerous initiatives related to pediatric obesity treatment in the United States and internationally, and serves in various leadership positions within The Obesity Society.

Dr. Sarah Hampl received her MD from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine and is a Professor of Pediatrics there. She is a member of the Division of General Academic Pediatrics at Children’s Mercy Hospital and leads advocacy activities at the Center for Children’s Healthy Lifestyles & Nutrition. Dr. Hampl has cared for children and adolescents with obesity for the past 25 years and serves as a coach for the AAP Section on Obesity. She served as the chair of the writing subcommittee for the AAP Clinical Practice Guideline on Obesity.

Dr. Sarah Barlow is a professor of pediatrics at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, where she is the director of the Children’s Health Integrated Program in Childhood Obesity. Her academic interests are in implementation of weight management programs and healthcare-community partnerships to address childhood obesity.

E. Thomaseo Burton, PhD is a board-certified pediatric psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA. He serves as a psychologist for the Health & Wellbeing Program, the pediatric weight management program at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In this role, Dr. Burton provides psychological care for children, adolescents, and their families with overweight, obesity, and related health concerns.

Ms. Savoye is the founder of the Bright Bodies/Smart Moves Healthy Lifestyle Program for Children and the author of the Smart Moves curriculum. She is also the Associate Director of Pediatric Obesity at Yale University School of Medicine. She is a registered dietitian (RD), a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES), and a Certified Mindfulness Instructor/Practitioner (CMIP). Ms. Savoye holds a BS in Nutrition & Dietetics and an MS in Mental Health Counseling and has more than 30 years of experience in the fields of obesity and diabetes.

Dr. Claudia Fox is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and a pediatric obesity medicine specialist at the University of Minnesota, where she serves as Co-Director of the Center for Pediatric Obesity Medicine. She is an expert in the clinical management of children and adolescents living with obesity and focuses her NIH-funded research on pharmacotherapy of pediatric obesity.

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Joan Han, MD is Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes in the Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital. She earned her undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University, completed a residency in pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center, a clinical research fellowship at Nemours Children’s Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, and a pediatric endocrinology fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Han’s primary research efforts focus on the neuroendocrine regulation of energy balance and cognitive functioning as well as the genetic, environmental, and behavioral determinants of metabolic health in the general population and in patients with rare genetic disorders associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Webb Smith, PhD, serves as Clinical Exercise Physiologist in the Heart Institute and Pediatric Obesity Program at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis, TN, and as an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, TN.

Dr. Sarah Armstrong completed her pediatric residency training at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 2003 and clinical research training from the Academic Pediatric Association in 2016. She is currently a Professor of Pediatrics at Duke University, and directs Duke’s pediatric weight management program. She serves as an Associate Director for the American Academy of Pediatrics Institute for a Healthy Childhood Weight, and her research focuses on clinic-community partnerships to deliver lifestyle interventions to children and teens with obesity.

Dr. Angela Fitch received her MD from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and completed an internal medicine and pediatrics residency at UC and Cincinnati Children’s. She became ABOM-certified in 2012 and practices obesity medicine full-time for adults and children, serving as the former Co-Director of the Mass General Weight Center in Boston. She is currently the Chief Medical Officer of Knownwell, a comprehensive obesity treatment and primary care clinic launching in Boston and expanding across the country to deliver value-based care to people with obesity. She is also the Past President of the Obesity Medicine Association.

Dr. Janet Lydecker is a child psychologist specializing in treatments for teens with eating disorders and obesity. Dr. Lydecker is an Associate Professor in Psychiatry and the Associate Director of Clinical-Research Training at the Yale Program for Obesity, Weight, and Eating Research. Dr. Lydecker runs the Teen POWER program, which has conducted treatment studies for teens with binge eating and obesity, teens with bulimia and obesity, and teens who experienced weight bullying. Her published work has focused on weight stigma, body image, disordered eating behaviors, and parent-child interactions around eating and weight.

Brooke Sweeney, MD, FAAP, FACP, DABOM is a Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatric Physician and the Medical Director of Weight Management services at Children’s Mercy Kansas City and the Center for Children’s Healthy Lifestyles & Nutrition. She is a Professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. Her clinical expertise is in advanced therapy for severe obesity and children with special healthcare needs and obesity. Her research interests include novel electronic applications to enhance pre and post bariatric surgery care, pharmacotherapy for pediatric weight management, and retention in weight management treatment.