Weight-inclusive healthcare for all, providing evidence-based medicine that supports your unique goals. Comprehensive, patient-centered, and expert-led care, in which you and your whole body are treated compassionately.
It’s our honor and privilege to help stand up knownwell, a patient-centered home for obesity care. For too long, patients affected by obesity are often overlooked and even shamed by their providers. Knownwell is pioneering integrated obesity and primary care scaled through hybrid care delivery and tech-enabled patient engagement. It’s the opportunity of a lifetime to back a founder with deep lived experience as a patient and a world-renowned physician who has transformed obesity medicine in the past decades and support them in creating a game-changing company that will alleviate a chronic condition that impacts one of every three adults and has the medical care costs of almost $150 billion per year in the US.
For the 115 million people living with the disease of obesity in the US today there are only about six thousand obesity medicine specialists, including me. People living with obesity need care. We need care that dispenses with weight-based stigma because it recognizes obesity for what it is: a chronic and sometimes life-long disease. We need better care with easier access. We need empathetic care that encourages us to be the best versions of ourselves, regardless of what the scale says. And we need it now. Delivering the care that we need is my personal and professional mission.
