Welcome back to the Diet Doctor Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Brett Scher. Today I'm joined by Dr.

Sandra Palavacino. Now, Dr. Palavacino works in a small town in Seaford, Delaware, but she's

originally from Venezuela. She got her medical degree at the University of Venezuela and completed

her training with practicing doctor in Venezuela, but then moved to the United States. So she had and completed her training, was practicing doctor in Venezuela,

but then moved to the United States.

So she had to redo her residency,

which is just part of the rules for foreign graduates coming into the U.S.,

where she did her internal medicine residency again

at the University of Connecticut.

And as you'll hear, she then got interested in obesity medicine,

so she's now board-certified in both internal medicine and obesity medicine, So she's now board certified in both internal

medicine and obesity medicine. And she's the director of the medical weight loss program at

Title Health in Seaford, Delaware. And she has a great perspective on this because as an obesity

medicine specialist and as the director of a medical weight loss clinic, she needs to know all

the tools available for weight loss., she needs to know all the tools

available for weight loss. So whether that's medications, whether that's very low calorie

meal replacements, and of course what diets are going to work best and how to work best

with bariatric surgeons to get the most benefit out of what they're doing both pre and postoperatively.

So she understands the whole picture.

And I think that's so important, both from sort of a science perspective of knowing what

works, but knowing also what works with the patients and the behavioral changes that need to

happen.

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