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Episode 40 Obesity Expert Dr. Ali Zenter founder and director of The Obesity Project (www.nofatshame.com)
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Dr. Ali Zentner received her undergraduate medical degree from McMaster University and
completed her Internal Medicine Residency with an extra year of Cardiology training at the
University of Calgary. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine.
Dr. Zentner was the Medical Director of the Live Well Exercise Clinics from 2013 until 2018.
Live Well is a unique prevention clinic which offer medically supervised exercise based
programs in the lower mainland and expanding across the country. As medical director Ali was
instrumental in establishing these programs and bringing them to the mainstream.
From 2015 until 2018 Ali was the Medical Director of the Vancouver Island Bariatric Program
and built the program into a multidisciplinary bariatric program which now supervises the
bariatric surgeries of over 200 patients annually. After three years as director she moved on to
establish a similar bariatric program within Fraser Health region.
Ali is the author of The Weight Loss Prescription (Penguin Books, 2015) and the medical advisor
to Global National and CBC.
With a wealth of clinical and practical experience, Dr. Zentner built Revolution Medical Clinic
and serves as its Medical Director. The clinic has been recognized as a centre of excellence by
the European Association for the Study of Obesity. It is one of the largest multidisciplinary
clinics in Canada run exclusively through the socialized health care system.
Dr. Zentner is the founder and director of the Canadian Obesity Peer Support Program- an online
and in person peer support educational platform for clinicians wanting to learn about obesity.
(www.canadaobesitypeersupport.com) The program has trained over 600 clinicians in a peer
support setting.
Ali is also the founder and director of The Obesity Project (www.nofatshame.com) a multilevel
educational program that addresses weight bias in medicine. The project involves patients and
clinicians and educates medical trainees, doctors and nurses on weight sensitivity and bias. It
currently is working to promote weight sensitivity training in all medical schools and residency
programs across Canada.
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