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Medical Advisory Panel Mission Statement
A team of highly trained, experienced, and passionate physicians serve as our ongoing "knowledge building" resource to the New Direction® network of centers. They assist the New Direction centers by continually enhancing obesity treatment protocols to deliver the highest quality of care.
Medical Advisory Panel (MAP) members assist in increasing the visibility and recognition of New Direction by performing industry lectures and leveraging their individual talents. MAP members also help augment New Direction's partnerships with other medical directors, caregivers and centers in the network.
Medical Advisory Panel Member Biographies
Medical Director
John D. Hernried, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Dr. John Hernried is a board certified Internist. Since 1999, he has been the Medical Director of Obesity Treatment Center in Sacramento, a multidisciplinary obesity treatment program which combines VLCD's, medical therapy and intensive behavioral therapy. In addition to this role, Dr. Hernried is a practicing Internist with Kaiser Permanente and regularly lectures to physicians on the subject of obesity. He is on the Speaker's Bureau for Abbott Labs and Roche Corporation.
Board Members
Christopher Case, M.D.
Dr. Christopher Case is a board certified Internal Medicine physician who specializes in Endocrinology. In his private practice, Jefferson City Medical Group, Dr. Case treats individuals with diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis, cholesterol disorders, and diseases of the thyroid, adrenal and pituitary glands. Dr. Case has conducted many research projects and, as a result, is well published.
Peter Howard Jones, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Dr. Peter Howard Jones is a board certified Internal Medicine physician. He is an Associate Professor at the Baylo College of Medicine and the Co-Director of the Lipid Metabolism and Atherosclerosis Clinic. Dr. Jones' primary passion, however, falls to his position as the Medical Director for three Methodist Hospital Wellness Services weight management programs. An accomplished speaker, Dr. Jones has made presentations at national and international symposia on topics that include drug therapy for dyslipidemias, new frontiers in lipid drug therapy, diabetic dyslipidemia and coronary heart disease.