Question & Answer Period

Moderator

Dr. Judy Shiau, MD, FRCPC, Dipl. ABOM

Medical Director and Lead Physician
LEAF Weight Management Clinic
Associate Professor University of Ottawa
Bariatric Medicine Fellowship Program Director
Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism

Dr. Judy Shiau is the Medical Director of LEAF Weight Management Clinic®, a community-based multidisciplinary bariatric clinic in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (www.leafwmc.com) . LEAF stands for Live.Eat.Activity.Forever®. These words set the goals and principles that people living with excess weight can follow.

As a General Internist with the certification of Diplomate of the American Board in Obesity Medicine, Dr. Shiau is an Associate Professor and Bariatric Medicine Fellowship program director for the University of Ottawa, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and trains future generation physicians how to better help their patients with overweight or obesity.

Dr. Shiau is the author of the Post-Operative Management for Bariatric Surgery chapter for the 2020 Canadian Obesity Clinical Practice Guidelines.