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The “Medi” in Medifast:

Weight loss designed, used, and recommended by doctors

About Medifast:

  • Created by William Vitale, M.D. and originally sold directly to doctors
  • Scientifically formulated to be safe, filling, and nutritious
  • Clinically proven to help you lose weight fast
  • Recommended by over 20,000 doctors and used by over a million customers since 1980

Scientific Advisory Board
This cross-disciplinary panel reviews the effectiveness and safety of Medifast products and programs, and assists in developing new ones.

Members:

David Allison, Ph. D.
Professor and Head at the University of Alabama at Birmingham

Debra L. Miller, Ph.D.
Director of Nutrition at The Hershey Company

Lawrence Cheskin, M.D.
Director of the Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center in Baltimore, MD

Varsha Vaidya, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and General Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Director of the Obesity Psychiatry program at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

Miriam Cohen, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Cardiologist and Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland Medical School

Kerry Stewart, Ed.D., FAHA, FAACVPR, FACSM, FSGC
Professor of Medicine, Director of Clinical and Research Exercise Physiology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Alison Duncan, Ph.D., RD
Associate Professor, Department of Human Health and Natural Sciences at the University of Guelph; Functional Foods Expert