Obesity medicine specialist is next VITALS speaker
Kirsten Frederiksen, M.D., M.S., FACP, FOMA, DABOM, joins VITALS | Visionary Health Leadership in Action at noon, Thursday, May 7, via Zoom.
Dr. Frederiksen, who is medical director the Mayo Clinic Bariatric Center in Jacksonville, Florida, will share her insights as an internal medicine and obesity medicine specialist.
VITALS is NEOMED's health leadership speaker series presented with University Hospitals.
CME credit is available.
ABOUT DR. FREDERIKSEN
Kirsten Frederiksen, M.D., M.S., FACP, FOMA, DABOM, is medical director for the Mayo Clinic Bariatric Center in Jacksonville, Florida. She is an Internal Medicine and Obesity Medicine specialist with over two decades of experience in clinical care.
She completed medical school at the University of Rochester School of Medicine in Rochester, New York, where she was elected to the AOA Medical Honor Society and holds a master’s degree in Health Policy and Management from Harvard University. Dr. Frederiksen has served as founder and program director for obesity medicine services at 2 large health systems and as Director of Clinical Operations at a national all virtual obesity medicine practice. She has served as a consultant to several national start up medical practices, is past Chair of the Bariatric Medical-Surgical Committee and is Co-Director of Clinical Education for the Obesity Medicine Association.
Published work and lectures have included financing of health care, validation scales, standards of obesity care, optimizing combined medical and procedural obesity care, and nutrition of the pre- and post-bariatric surgery patient. In her current role as Medical Director of the Bariatric Center, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Dr. Frederiksen’s focus is on continuing to build a widely recognized, state of the art, comprehensive and collaborative, multidisciplinary obesity care program including expanding on related research and education.
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