Louis Aronne

{{Short description|American physician and author}} {{Multiple issues| {{COI|date=January 2016}} {{resume-like|date=January 2016}} }}

'''Louis J. Aronne''' is an American physician and author who is an obesity medicine specialist. He is quoted in the news media as an expert in the field of weight research. He is perhaps best known for diagnosing David Letterman's heart condition in 2000.<ref name="refsix">{{cite web |url=http://www.obesitymyths.com/mythmaker1.4.cfm?id=2 |title=Louis Aronne |accessdate=2009-07-14 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127160121/http://obesitymyths.com/mythmaker1.4.cfm?id=2 |archivedate=2010-11-27 }}</ref> His book, released in 2009, ''The Skinny on Losing Weight Without Being Hungry'' is a NY Times best-seller.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage-9C04E6DF163EF931A25757C0A96F9C8B63.html|title=BEST SELLERS: ADVICE, HOW TO AND MISCELLANEOUS: Sunday, April 12th 2009|date=12 April 2009|accessdate=31 December 2017|website=The New York Times}}</ref> His book, ''The Change Your Biology Diet: The Proven Program for Lifelong Weight Loss'' with a foreword by David Letterman was published on January 5, 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/35388/20160104/change-your-biology-diet-book-review.htm|title=Weight Loss Science: Dr Louis J. Aronne Talks Science Behind His Book 'The Change Your Biology Diet' [SCIENCE WORLD REPORT EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW]|date=4 January 2016|website=Scienceworldreport.com|accessdate=31 December 2017}}</ref>

==Early life and education== Aronne was born in Brooklyn, NY, to parents of Italian descent.<ref name="refone">Aronne, LJ. Weigh Less Live Longer, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York, 1996.</ref> He graduated from Poly Prep Country Day School in 1973<ref name="polyprep.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.polyprep.org/page/parents?pk=666374|title=Dr. Louis Aronne '73 Receives Poly's Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award at Special Reunion 2013|date=20 May 2013|website=Poly Prep Country Day School|accessdate=31 December 2017}}</ref> and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Trinity College in 1977 with a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry.<ref name="refthree" /> In 1981, he graduated from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is board certified in Internal Medicine<ref name="refthree">Aronne, LJ. The Skinny On Losing Weight Without Being Hungry, Broadway-Random House, Inc. New York, 2009.</ref> and founding board member<ref>{{cite web |url=http://abom.org/board-of-directors/ |title=American Board of Obesity Medicine – Board of Directors |accessdate=2016-01-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151226001001/http://abom.org/board-of-directors/ |archivedate=2015-12-26 }}</ref> and diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://abom.org/diplomate-search/ |title=American Board of Obesity Medicine – Diplomate Directory |accessdate=2016-01-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160125135833/http://abom.org/diplomate-search/ |archivedate=2016-01-25 }}</ref>

==Career== Aronne is the Sanford I. Weill Professor of Metabolic Research and Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, an attending physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital, and an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.<ref name="refthree" /><ref name="weillcornell.org">{{cite web|url=http://weillcornell.org/ljaronne|title=Louis J. Aronne, M.D. - Weill Cornell Medicine|website=weillcornell.org|accessdate=31 December 2017}}</ref> He is medical director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Center at Weill Cornell Medicine, which he founded in 1986<ref name="refthree"/> as a multidisciplinary obesity research and treatment program.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://weillcornell.org/weight|title=Comprehensive Weight Control Center - Weill Cornell Medicine|website=weillcornell.org|accessdate=31 December 2017}}</ref>

Aronne is a past president of The Obesity Society,<ref name="weillcornell.org"/> then known as the North American Association for the Study of Obesity. He is a fellow of the: American College of Physicians, The Obesity Society, and the New York Academy of Medicine.<ref name="refthree"/> In 2013, he was made an honorary member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Aronne edited and was chairman of the National Institutes of Health's ''Practical Guide to the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults''.<ref name="refthree" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/files/docs/guidelines/prctgd_c.pdf|title=The Practical Guide : Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults|website=Nhlbi.nih.gov|access-date=31 December 2017}}</ref> He was a reviewing member of the Department of Health and Human Services and Food and Drug Administration's publication, ''Guidance for the Clinical Evaluation of Weight-Control Drugs''.<ref name="refthree"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/.../Guidances/ucm071612.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140906222000/http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/.../Guidances/ucm071612.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 6, 2014|title=Guidance for Industry Developing Products for Weight Management|website=Fda.gov|accessdate=31 December 2017}}</ref> Aronne also helped develop the Veterans Administration MOVE! Program, the largest weight loss program in the U.S.<ref name="refthree"/>

Aronne is an associate editor of the peer-reviewed scientific journal, ''Obesity''.<ref name="reftwo">{{cite journal|title=Obesity|doi=10.1002/(issn)1930-739x|journal=Obesity }}</ref> He has been a consultant to the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission. He has authored over 100 scientific publications,<ref>{{PubMedAuthorSearch|Aronne|L}}</ref> book chapters, abstracts, and books on obesity.

In 2008, Aronne founded BMIQ, which is now [http://www.intellihealth.co Intellihealth Evolve], a SaaS platform designed to treat obesity within a medically supervised setting. The Evolve platform provides clinical decision support tools for physicians, nurse practitioners, registered dietitians, exercise physiologists, and behavioral psychologists with evidence based diagnosis, treatment recommendations, and telehealth/telemedicine tools to remotely monitor patients with obesity as a disease.

==Medical philosophy== Aronne supports the creation of the obesity medicine sub-specialty within the American Board of Internal Medicine. Aronne's core belief is that obesity is a progressive metabolic disease of weight-regulating mechanisms, which leads to a deterioration in fullness and satiety. Wherein the "feed-forward" phenomenon, caused by leptin resistance, appetite is stimulated, rather than inhibited, by eating. The final stage of the fullness mechanism breakdown, which Aronne has termed "fullness resistance", is the delayed or nonexistent sensation of fullness.<ref name="reftwo"/>

His approach towards obesity treatment is to first diagnose and treat sleep disorders and review patients' medications. He has found that many patients take common medications that neither they, nor their doctor realize cause weight gain.<ref name="reftwo"/> He substitutes these with weight-neutral or weight-reducing medications. This is the basis of his "weight-centric", as opposed to the dated "gluco-centric", approach to Type 2 diabetes.<ref name="ReferenceA">Aronne, Louis. ''The Change Your Biology Diet''. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.</ref>

Aronne's diet recommendations are based on the low-glycemic and Mediterranean diets with an added "food order" modification.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> His recommendation, supported by his food order research<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/38/7/e98|title=Food Order Has a Significant Impact on Postprandial Glucose and Insulin Levels|first1=Alpana P.|last1=Shukla|first2=Radu G.|last2=Iliescu|first3=Catherine E.|last3=Thomas|first4=Louis J.|last4=Aronne|date=1 July 2015|journal=Diabetes Care|volume=38|issue=7|pages=e98–e99|accessdate=31 December 2017|via=care.diabetesjournals.org|doi=10.2337/dc15-0429|pmid=26106234|pmc=4876745}}</ref> at Weill Cornell Medicine, is to consume protein and vegetables first (both within the context of a meal and a day) followed later by consuming whole grain carbohydrates.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

==Media== Aronne was one of the founding hosts of the TV Food Network, co-hosting more than 650 episodes of ''Getting Healthy'', a nightly call-in show covering a variety of topics in health, nutrition, and medicine from 1993 to 1996. His other television and radio appearances include ''The Charlie Rose Show'',<ref name="reffour">{{cite web |url=http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/louis-aronne-naaso.html |title=Dr. Louis Aronne Named President of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity (NAASO) - New York Presbyterian Hospital |accessdate=2009-07-14 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100220111358/http://nyp.org/news/hospital/louis-aronne-naaso.html |archivedate=2010-02-20 }}</ref> ''The Today Show'', ''Dateline NBC'', ''20/20'', ''48 Hours'', and most other national news programs. In 2001 and 2002, Aronne appeared on and developed the ''CBS Early Show''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s "Weight Off" series.{{citation needed|date=December 2017}}

==Books== Aronne's first book, ''Weigh Less Live Longer'', from John Wiley & Sons, Inc., was published in 1996.<ref name="refone" /> His second book, ''The Skinny on Losing Weight Without Being Hungry'', from Broadway-Random House, published in March 2009, is a NY Times best-seller.<ref name="refseven">{{cite web|url=https://www.reachmd.com/profiles/louis-aronne-md/jQebVj/|title=Louis Aronne, MD|website=Reachmd.com|accessdate=31 December 2017}}</ref> Aronne's third book, ''The Change Your Biology Diet: The Proven Program for Lifelong Weight Loss'' was published on January 5, 2016, by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}

==Honors== Aronne has won several awards for teaching, including the Leo M. Davidoff Society Prize from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1983 and the Eliot Hochstein Teaching Award from Cornell University in 1990.<ref name="refthree" /> He was awarded the 2015 Atkinson-Stern Award for Distinguished Public Service by The Obesity Society<ref>{{cite web|url=http://obesityweek.com/schedule-item/tos-awards-session/|title=TOS Awards Session – #OW2017 - ObesityWeek 2017|website=obesityweek.com|accessdate=31 December 2017}}</ref> and the 2013 Distinguished Achievement Award by Poly Prep Country Day School.<ref name="polyprep.org"/> Aronne has been a faculty member of the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society since 1990.<ref name="reffive">{{cite web |url=http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/1513 |title=Charlie Rose - Louis Aronne |accessdate=2009-07-14 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090717044347/http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/1513 |archivedate=2009-07-17 }}</ref> He has been regularly ranked in Castle Connolly's and New York Magazine's Best Doctors in New York as a specialist in obesity and internal medicine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.castleconnolly.com/doctors/full.cfm?doctorid=81CC000241-716-399|title=Dr. Louis Aronne - Internal Medicine - Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.|website=Castleconnolly.com|accessdate=31 December 2017}}</ref>

==Personal life== Aronne is married with two children.<ref name="refone" />

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==External links== *{{cite web|url=http://www.move.va.gov|title=MOVE! Weight Management Program Home|first=Tony B.|last=Rogers|website=Move.va.gov|accessdate=31 December 2017}}

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