Our multidisciplinary team is led by a physician / surgeon and includes our registered dietician who specializes in obesity and weight loss, our licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in both group- and individual behavioral and cognitive therapy of weight excess, and our certified fitness trainer experienced in resistance and aerobic instruction for weight loss.

Dr. Swartz oversees the comprehensive non-surgical weight loss program while both Drs. Swartz and Felix jointly oversee the comprehensive surgical weight loss program. Dr. Michelle Russell, our in-house behavioral psychologist, conducts our preoperative and comprehensive medical weight loss functional psychologic evaluations and actively treats our comprehensive medical patients using behavioral, cognitive and insight-oriented techniques. Cheryl Engle, R.D., teaches our pre- and post-surgical nutrition classes, conducts our preoperative and comprehensive nutiritional evaluations and actively guides our comprhensive medical patients towards their nutritional goals. Mrs. Bluma Felix, our fitness trainer, conducts our pre-operative individual and group fitness sessions, and performs a complete fitness evaluation and designs the six-month physical training program for our comprehensive medical weight loss patients.

Please see the “About Us” section for more thorough biographies of our team.