Metabolic Medicine and Surgery

"Health practitioners who deal with disease by attempting to restore normal metabolism are said to practice metabolic medicine. This book is intended to be the first comprehensive overview in the field of metabolic medicine, which is dedicated to controlling the epidemic of obesity and preventing obesity's consequences. It introduces metabolic medicine and surgery, and covers metabolic syndrome as an epidemic, metabolic approaches to diabetes and obesity, and metabolic management in chronic disease states"--Provided by publisher.

Dr. Michael Rothkopf is a recognized leader in the field of clinical nutrition and Metabolic Medicine. He has over 30 years of clinical experience and an international reputation as an authority in the areas of nutritional support, obesity management and the postoperative care of bariatric surgery patients.

He is has been awarded Fellowship status at the American College of Nutrition, the American College of Physicians and the Obesity Society. He serves in a critical capacity on the two separate organizations that certify physicians on knowledge in Nutrition - the Certifying Board of Nutrition Specialists and the National Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists.

Dr. Rothkopf graduated with dual degrees in biology and communications from Syracuse University, where he attended the Newhouse School of Public Communication. He received his medical degree from the Eastern Virginia Medical School where he performed metabolic research at the Jones Center for Reproductive Medicine. He was an Internal Medicine resident at Rutgers/NJ Medical School and Chief Medical Resident at the VA Medical Center. He did his fellowship in Nutrition and Metabolism under Dr. John Kinney at the Surgical Metabolic Unit of Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York. He was mentored in functional biochemistry by Dr Eric Newsholme of Oxford University.

Dr. Rothkopf has been a nutrition consultant at multiple NJ hospitals. He is the author of 2 prior textbooks and over 100 scientific publications. He serves on the board of directors of the ACN. He was chairman of the 52^nd and 53^rd Annual Meetings of the ACN. He currently serves as the Director of Metabolic Medicine at Morristown Medical Center in Morristown, NJ.