Obesity is owned by and is the official publication of The Obesity Society. The journal offers prompt publication of high-quality original research and presents new information in the areas of clinical nutrition medicine, pharmacology, nutrition medicine, genetics, adipogenesis, behavioral epidemiology, biophysics and lipid metabolism, exercise and human physiology, nutritional epidemiology, phenotyping, fat cell physiology, aging, neuroscience, transgenic models, metabolic syndrome, nutrition behavior, pediatric obesity, and adipocyte cell biology.

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Editor-in-Chief
Eric Ravussin, PhD, FTOS
Boyd Professor
Associate Executive Director, Clinical Science
Douglas L. Gordon Chair in Diabetes & Metabolism
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Associate Editor-in-Chief
Donna H. Ryan, MD, FTOS
Professor Emeritus, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Associate Editors
David B. Allison, PhD, FTOS
Dean and Provost Professor
Indiana University School of Public Health - Bloomington
Bloomington, Indiana
Steve Anton, PhD
Associate Professor & Clinical Research Division Chief
Department of Aging and Geriatric Research
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
College of Public Health and Health Professions
College of Medicine, University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
David E. Cummings, MD
Professor of Medicine
Senior Investigator, Diabetes & Obesity Center of Excellence
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Jose E. Galgani, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Health Sciences, Nutrition & Dietetics
Department of Nutrition, Diabetes and Metabolism
School of Medicine
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Santiago, Chile
Leonie Heilbronn, PhD
Associate Professor
Group Leader, Obesity and Metabolism
Adelaide Medical School
The University of Adelaide
Adelaide, South Australia
Steven Heymsfield, MD, FTOS
Professor
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
David Meyre, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Visiting Professor, University of Lorraine
Inserm UMRS954 Nutrition-Genetics-Environmental Risks
Institute of Medical Research
Bettina Mittendorfer, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Science
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri
Christopher Morrison, PhD
Professor
Neurosignaling
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Melanie Nichols, PhD 
Senior Research Fellow 
Global Obesity Centre (GLOBE) 
Deakin University 
Geelong, Australia 
Cynthia Ogden, PhD
Chief, Analysis Branch
NHANES Program
National Center for Health Statistics Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Hyattsville, Maryland 
Milken Institute School of Public Health 
George Washington University 
Washington, DC
R. Scott Rector, PhD, FTOS 
Associate Professor of Medicine and Research Health Scientist 
Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology and Medicine-Gastroenterology 
University of Missouri and Truman VA 
Columbia, Missouri
Leanne Redman, PhD, FTOS
Professor, Pennington Biomedical Research Center Director
Reproductive Endocrinology & Women's Health Research Program
Assistant Professor, Research Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, LSU Health Sciences Center
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Patrick Schrauwen, PhD
Professor, Department of Nutrition and Movement Sciences 
NUTRIM School for Nutrition and Translational Research In Metabolism Maastricht University
Maastricht, The Netherlands
Gabriel Q. Shaibi, PhD
Associate Professor and Director
Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
College of Nursing and Health Innovation
Arizona State University
Phoenix, Arizona
Jacqueline M. Stephens, PhD, FTOS
Claude B. Pennington Jr. Endowed Chair in Biomedical Research
Professor, Adipocyte Biology
Pennington Biomedical Research Center/ Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Deborah Tate, PhD
Professor, Health Behavior and Nutrition
Director, UNC Weight Research Program
Director, CHAI Core
Gillings School of Global Public Health
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Nicholas Timpson, PhD
Professor of Genetic Epidemiology
MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit
NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at the University of Bristol
Bristol Medical School
University of Bristol
Bristol, UK
Jack A. Yanovski, MD, PhD, FTOS
Chief, Section on Growth and Obesity
Program in Developmental Ednocrinology and Genetics
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
Managing Editor
Allison Templet
E-mail: atemplet@obesity.org
General Queries
E-mail: editorial@obesity.org