{"id":56836,"date":"2021-11-15T14:46:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T19:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=56836"},"modified":"2021-11-15T14:46:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T19:46:04","slug":"virtual-medicine-grand-rounds-sriram-machineni-md-obesity-pharmacotherapy-the-past-present-and-future","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/event\/virtual-medicine-grand-rounds-sriram-machineni-md-obesity-pharmacotherapy-the-past-present-and-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Medicine Grand Rounds: Sriram Machineni, MD, &#8220;Obesity Pharmacotherapy: The Past, Present and Future.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_56837\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56837\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/11\/Sriram_machineni-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sriram Machineni, MD\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Sriram Machineni, MD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Dr. Machineni<\/strong><\/em> is board-certified in Obesity Medicine and Internal Medicine and completed a clinical and research fellowship in Obesity Medicine at the Massachusetts General hospital, Harvard Medical School.<\/p>\n<p>He moved to UNC in 2017 to establish medical obesity treatment services and, helped build an integrated network of comprehensive obesity care at UNC Health and serves as the director of the Medical Weight Program at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Machineni is the principal investigator on multiple pharmaceutical clinical trials for obesity at UNC and is an expert in the use of anti-obesity pharmacotherapy in patients with complex medical disease.<\/p>\n<p>He is engaged in educating providers and has a goal of integrating obesity medicine education into medical school, residency, and fellowship programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Dr. Machineni is board-certified in Obesity Medicine and Internal Medicine and completed a clinical and research fellowship in Obesity Medicine at the Massachusetts General hospital, Harvard Medical School. 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