John Foreyt, PhD is a Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Medicine. He also is the Director of the DeBakey Heart Center's Behavioral Medicine Research Center. He has served as a member of the National Task Force on the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity for the National Institutes of Health; The Committee to Develop Criteria for Evaluating the Outcomes of Approaches to Prevent and Treat Obesity for the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences; and The Expert Panel on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Adults at High Risk for Cardiovascular Disease for the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute of NIH. Dr. Foreyt has published extensively in the areas of diet modification, cardiovascular risk reduction, eating disorders, and obesity. He has published 17 books and more than 270 articles in these areas. |