Medical Director / President
L-MARC Research Center
Dr. Harold Bays is Board Certified in Endocrinology and Internal Medicine, Diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine and Diplomate of the American Board of Clinical Lipidology. He is Medical Director / President of the Louisville Metabolic and Atherosclerosis Research Center and Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. He has served as an Investigator for over 600 Phase I - IV clinical trials regarding treatments for obesity, dyslipidemias, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and other cardiometabolic and hormonal disorders. Dr. Bays is Chief Science Officer of the Obesity Medicine Association and is Editor in Chief for Obesity Pillars – the journal of the Obesity Medicine Association. Dr. Bays has written and/or served as a contributing author to approximately 350 peer review scientific manuscripts and book chapters, hundreds of scientific abstracts presented at major scientific meetings. He has served as first author and/or co-author for scientific consensus statements, position statements, and clinical practice statements in Obesity Medicine and Clinical Lipidology. He is a Fellow of the Obesity Medicine Association (FOMA), Fellow of the National Lipid Association (FNLA), Fellow of The Obesity Society (FTOS), Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC), and Fellow of the American Society of Preventive Cardiology (FASPC). Dr. Bays originated the term "adiposopathy" ("sick fat"), which defines how and when the pathologic consequences of adipose tissue accumulation promote metabolic disease, including dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus, and hypertension. Dr. Bays has received several scientific awards in such as the 2016 Obesity Medicine Association “Obesity Medicine Clinician of the Year” and 2015 National Lipid Association “President’s Service Award.”
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