I'm thrilled to announce that I have joined the Journeys Metabolic team! I've said for many years that I am on a mission to "change the weight of the world." As part of this mission, I founded Heartland Weight Loss; the first insurance-based Obesity Medicine clinic in the Greater Kansas City area. Over the past five years, we have seen phenomenal growth, primarily driven by referrals from amazing clinicians in the area. In 2022, I opened a second location in Lawrence, Kansas (hiring Maribeth Orr, D.O., DABFM, DABOM to anchor that space). Again - success. The world clearly needs (and wants) brick-and-mortar Obesity Medicine clinics! However, scaling an in-person model bigger and bigger simply isn't my cup of tea - nor is it an effective way to bring evidence-based therapies to the masses.
With the recent explosion of interest in this field, I have had multiple offers to partner with technology companies. I've never been opposed to the idea - it's a great way to effectively disseminate ten years of knowledge/experience to a bigger audience. Sadly, most of these tech startups are on a mission to either capitalize upon prescribing GLP-1 agonists to as many people as possible and/or promote the outdated, unscientific narrative of "eat-less, move-more" combined with some sort of motivational tool to help people embrace the misery that narrative creates.
When I was approached by Journeys Metabolic and dug into their product, it was immediately clear that the leadership of this company gets it. The entire mission of the program is to help patients with metabolic health by focusing on repairing the underlying pathology that happens upstream (at the cellular level), which will inevitably have an impact downstream - improving all sorts of cardiometabolic diseases - including obesity.
With a mission grounded in people and results (NOT prescriptions and profits) and a leadership team passionate about metabolic health, I couldn't NOT be a part of this company! I believe Journeys has what it takes to turn this epidemic of chronic disease around - at scale. I'm excited to see what happens as we explode into the marketplace in 2024!
Thrilled to announce Courtney Younglove, M.D., FOMA, FACOG, DABOM as Journeys Metabolic's new Chief Medical Officer!
We're grateful for your everyday passion and solution-oriented approach to solving the metabolic health crisis at scale. Onwards and upwards. Welcome!
Jim Howard, Steve Edwards, Greg Robinson, Jessica Yang, Melissa Leonard,
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1moThat’s my Team Leader! Congrats, Alberta!