Amanda Velazquez, MD DABOM

Dr. Amanda Velazquez is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Surgery and the Director of Obesity Medicine at the Center for Weight Management and Metabolic Health at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Velazquez graduated with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gilling’s School of Public Health, with a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition, and received her medical degree from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, where she was elected to the national medical honor society, Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA). She went on to complete her internal medicine residency at Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis and subsequently completed the Nutrition and Obesity Medicine fellowship program at Boston University School of Medicine. She is passionate in achieving healthy equity and reducing health disparities through increased access to the treatments for obesity, improving obesity medicine and nutrition education efforts for medical trainees and healthcare professionals, and cultivating systematic healthcare change through preventive medicine efforts. Her research interests have focused on pharmacotherapy treatments of obesity, medical education of obesity medicine and nutrition, and reducing weight bias and stigma among healthcare professionals.