As Director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the University of Colorado, Dr. Hill has spent over 25 years researching the causes of weight gain adiposity, and obesity and how to prevent or treat these problems. He has published over 200 scientific articles and lectures widely about weight management. He is well known as a co-founder of the National Weight Control Registry, which follows over 3000 people who have lost weight and kept it off permanently. Dr. Hill was a member of the Expert Panel that developed the National Institutes of Health Guidelines for Management of Overweight and Obesity and was chair of the first World Health Organization Consultation on Obesity. He has served as president of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity and as Vice-President of the International Association for the Study of Obesity. Most recently, Dr. Hill is editor-in-chief of a new journal, Obesity Management, to be published in 2004.
Dr. Hill has spent the past few years translating the science of weight management into simple programs that work in the community. He developed The Colorado Weigh® and The American Weigh, formal behavior weight management programs involving weekly group meetings. He also co-developed Colorado on the Move and America on the Move, public health programs that use step counters to increase lifestyle physical activity in order to prevent weight gain. These programs give you, in simple terms, the basics of weight management and show you how you can make simple changes in your lifestyle that dramatically change your body weight.
1. Alumni Scholarship, University of Tennessee, 1969-1970.
2. National Research Service Award from NIH, 5/82.
3. Member NIDDK Task Force on Obesity 6/91- 2/99.
4. Section Editor, Obesity Research, 1992-present
5. Chairman, Education Committee of the North American Association
for the Study of Obesity, 1992- 1997.
6. Co-founder, National Weight Control Registry (NWCR)
7. Member, Steering Committee on Healthy Weights; Providing Advice to
USDA and DHHS for 1995 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
8. Chair, Advisory Committee for ILSI PAN program, 1995-present.
9. Member, NHLBI Expert Panel on Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease.
1995-1998.
10. Member, NIH Nutrition Study Section, 1996-2000.
11. Chair, WHO Consultation on Obesity, June 1997.
12. President, North American Association for the Study of Obesity 1997-8.
13. Editorial Board: Obesity Research, American Journal of Clinical
Nutrition, International Journal of Obesity, Journal of Nutrition, Weight
Control Digest, Nutrition in Clinical Care
14. MERIT Award from NIH, 1998-2005
15. Chair, NIH Nutrition Study Section 2000-2001
16. President's Lecturer, American College Sports Medicine, 2001
Holly R. Wyatt, MD
Dr. Holly R. Wyatt is a physician and clinical researcher at The Center for Human Nutrition in Denver, Colorado and serves as Medical Director for The Colorado Weigh®.
Dr. Wyatt received her MD degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas and completed both an internal medicine residency and an endocrinology and metabolism fellowship at The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. She is board certified in both internal medicine and endocrinology. Dr. Wyatt has been the National Program Director for the Centers for Obesity Research and Education (C.O.R.E) since 1999. She is also associate editor of Obesity Management, a new journal to be published in 2004.
Research interests include studies aimed at understanding whether energy metabolism is altered in obese individuals and in individuals who are successfully maintaining weight loss (reduced-obese).
Bonnie Jortberg MS, RD, CDE
Bonnie Tamis Jortberg holds a Master's Degree in Human Nutrition, is a Registered Dietitian, and a Certified Diabetes Educator. Ms. Jortberg has been at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver for more than 8 years working in the areas of diabetes and obesity research. She currently holds the position of Program Director for the Colorado Weigh® Program at the University of Colorado Center for Human Nutrition. Additionally, Ms. Jortberg has more that 15 years experience providing both community and professional health and wellness education throughout the state of Colorado.
Ms. Jortberg has been a keynote speaker at several conferences on topics such as obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Additionally, she is frequently interviewed for national television and articles for national publications such as Self Magazine, Today’s Dietitian and the NY Times.
Ms. Jortberg was also a nationally-ranked collegiate distance runner, and qualified for the 1984 Olympic Trials. She also received the 1981 Mencimer Award for outstanding student athlete at Colorado State University.