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WELLNESS, WEIGHT LOSS & DISEASE PREVENTIONEMAIL: [email protected] WEB: DRTOMRIFAI.COM ADDRESS: PO Box 1814, Troy, MI 48099 Medical Director, Metabolic Nutrition and Weight Management St Joseph Mercy Oakland (Trinity Hospital System)-Pontiac, Michigan Board of Director Member - American Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists american board of internal medicine, 8.2003 american board of physician nutrition specialists, 11.2003 Currently on the Speakers Bureau for Liposcience and formally on AstraZeneca Speakers Bureau, and Speaker Trainer, for Crestor (rosuvastatin)* William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI Wayne State University School of Medicine (WSU-SOM) Detroit, MI Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI Degree: Bachelor of Science – Awarded with ‘Highest Honor’ Major: Psychology, with Pre-Med requirement completion HEALTH RELATED VOLUNTEER WORK, EMPLOYMENT & POSITIONS7/09-present Medical Director, Metabolic Nutrition and Weight Management St Joseph Mercy Oakland
(Trinity Hospital System – 4th largest Catholic hospital system in the USA and the flagship Michigan Trinity hospital), Pontiac Michigan Course director for Harvard Medical School online Continuing Medical Education Lifestyle
Medicine Program re: management of Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes prevention.
Invited to become a Board of Directors member-at-large for the American Board of Scientific Advisory Board member of Pritikin Longevity Center, Miami FL (convenes quarterly)
Co-developer of Michigan’s 1st intensive effort towards improving school foods programs with Warren Consolidated Schools district “Eat Your Dots!” school lunch program
addressing education about & decreased intake of sodium, saturated fat & excess calories. Formulated and established, with nationally renown executive chef Jim Oppat of the Andiamo
Restaurant Corporation, the 1st serious medical gourmet menu available at a commercial,
executive level restaurant group in the USA – “Andiamo Lean” (andiamoitalia.com)
One of only 52 obesity management expert physicians in the US invited to author
questions for Obesity Medicine certification exam under the auspices of TOS
Associate Medical Director, Pritikin Longevity Center (www.pritikin.com), then in
AstraZeneca (AZ) Speaker Faculty for Crestor (rosuvastatin), including role as educator of AZ promotional speakers, speaking throughout USA Director, UnaSource Comprehensive Weight Loss Programs- UnaSource Medical Center (William Beaumont Hospital affiliated), Troy, Mi Clinical Nutrition/Internal Medicine Bariatric Medical Specialist at the Multidisciplinary Northpointe Health Center (William Beaumont Hospital Affiliated) Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at WSU-SOM, Detroit, MI for clinical- outpatient-based teaching of nutritional and internal medicine to medical students Annual lectures given for the medical school’s Dept. of Nutrition medical nutrition for cardiometabolic syndrome (contact: Dr Vish. Sardesai, PhD) and the authoring of questions for WSU-SOM medical exams regarding the subject matter Advisor to the Mich. Dept. of Community Health Healthy Kids, Healthy Michigan
project: a collaborative effort between the Nat’l Governors Assn, the Office of Governor Jennifer Granholm, the Office of Michigan’s Surgeon General Dr Kimberly Dawn Wisdom and the Michigan Dept.of Community Health to address public health policy in Michigan regarding childhood obesity Member of Michigan Department of Community Health Cardiovascular Alliance
Health Task Force for the development of public policy guidelines for heart
disease, stroke and obesity prevention under the auspices of Michigan Governor, Nutrition and Lipid Disorder Clerkship site director for education of Beaumont Hospital’s Primary Care Track Internal Medicine Residents Advisory role to Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL for regarding their Intensive,
Member of the Health Advisory Committee to the Detroit News newspaper together with Surgeon General of Michigan, Kimberlydawn Wisdom, MD, MS.
Formally advised to Wayne State University School of Medicine in developing educational curriculum for clinical evaluation and treatment of the overweight and obese patient (confirmatory contact: Robert R. Frank, 2003 Associate Dean Submitted medical examination questions on the annual Mediterranean Diet and Metabolic Syndrome for second year medical students at Wayne State University Elected by Internal Medicine Class of 2003 to represent class on the Beaumont
Hospital Internal Medicine Residency Education Committee Founding and Steering Committee member of the Oakland County, Michigan, Community Health Department’s Childhood Obesity Initiative Chief resident coordinator, Beaumont Hospital – Nutrition, Preventive Medicine
(Weight Control) Center
One month rotation at William Beaumont Hospital Dept. of Nutrition, Preventive Medicine & Weight Control under Dept. Director Charles Lucas, MD, FACP Patient Lifestyle Counselor and Medical Assistant at the Diabetes and Endocrinology Center of Bloomfield Hills, MI, under the direction of Center Director and Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine, Ali Abbasi, MD, FACP HONORS, AWARDS & MILESTONES2005-Present Consistently receive notably high regard and positive feedback to all lifestyle, nutrition, diabetes and weight control associated public speaking – both informational and motivational from St Joseph Mercy Oakland, Pritikin Longevity Center, Wayne State University, General Motors and AstraZeneca as well as multiple media interviews (see “Media” section of: www.drtomrifai.com)
As Associate Medical Director of the world renown Pritikin Longevity Center in Aventura, Florida, spearheaded the revamping of their nutritional and metabolic lab testing and interpretation; led and directed comprehensive revision of Pritikin supplement program; revised Pritikin educational program – particularly as it Asked by the American Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists to author questions for their revised Certifying Examination Designed UnaSource Pre-Operation Education Series – a highly attended (>9/10 pre-op patients) program designed to give comprehensive education to the pre-bariatric surgery patient about post-bariatric surgery life, Spearheaded the revision of UnaSource Health Center state of the art DEXA Body Composition Analysis program for cardiovascular risk and goal weight assessment.
Designed and coordinated construction of the first comprehensive resident/fellow exercise facility at William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan Scored 98th percentile on United States Medical Licensing Exam Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society (top 6% of undergraduate Senior class); Golden Key National Honor Society; Psi Chi National During tenure as president of Michigan State University’s Olin Health Center’s Student Health Advocacy Program the program was awarded MSU annual honor of “Best Program Concerning Student Welfare” for the first time St Joseph Mercy Oakland: Multiple community speaking invitations to community members including those regarding: obesity in minorities, obesity in children, nutrition issues in breast cancer survivors, multiple newspaper and local magazine articles regarding life- style issues including being honored with a full page pictorial and article in the 2010
HOUR DETROIT magazine annual “TOP DOCS” issue.
Invited to speak at William Beaumont Hospital, Grosse Pointe, under invitation of their department of Continuing Medical Education, on evidence based advancements in the Invited speak on nutritional and lifestyle therapy for Cardiometabolic Syndrome, 84th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Michigan Occupational and Environmental Invited to speak at William Beaumont Hospital, Grosse Pointe, under invitation of their department of Continuing Medical Education, on evidence based advancements, medical benefits and implications of medical weight loss Chief and consistently top-ranked (by program participants and associate health care providers) lecturer on Diabetes/Metabolic Syndrome, Truths vs Myths Regarding Nutritional Supplementation and Lifestyle Considerations in Cancer Prevention at the world renown Pritikin Longevity Center, FL Invited to do CME lecture for Bon Secours Hospital (now Beaumont Hospital, Grosse Pointe MI) Gastroenterology Course: “Medical Care of Bariatric Surgery Patients” Invited Lecturer at General Motors National “Culture of Health” Symposium regarding state of the art concepts in medical weight loss at GM World Headquarters, Detroit MI Metabolic Syndrome & the “Medical Mediterranean Diet”, 81st Annual Scientific Meeting of the Michigan Occupational & Environmental Medicine Assn., Traverse City, MI Invited by Oakland Community College-Highland Lakes, Michigan, to speak on Lipid Management Guidelines, Noon Conference Speaker to the William Beaumont Hospital Internal Medicine Residency Program (CME program) 1. Dupont Chemical Safety Symposium, Mt Clemens, MI Group: Dupont Chemical factory employees Subject: Health And Economic Implications of the US Obesity Epidemic 2. Lipid Management Guidelines, Noon Conference Speaker to the William Beaumont Hospital Internal Medicine Residency Program (CME program) Daimler-Chrysler/United Auto Workers Annual Benefits Conference, Las Vegas, NV Group: Diamler-Chrysler/UAW Benefit Representatives Subject: Health And Economic Implications of the US Obesity Epidemic Daimler-Chrysler Headquarters, Auburn Hills, Michigan.
Group: Diamler-Chrysler Allied Health Professionals from throughout the U.S.
Subject: Obesity – Definitions, Health Implications and Treatment The Blue Cross/Blue Shield – Detroit Health Department sponsored “Plus Size Health, Beauty and Self Esteem Conference”, Cobo Hall, Detroit, Mi Oakland County, Mi, Public Health Division’s presentation to Oakland County Public Schools representatives, over 100 in attendance, on the utility of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s SCHOOL HEALTH INDEX to gauge their schools’ strengths and areas for improvement regarding students’ physical activity and Dupont Automotive – World Headquarters, Troy, MI Subject: Lifestyle changes to prevent Diabetes and Hypertension RESEARCH PROJECTS AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS 1. Senior Research Project – Human Investigations Committee approved chart review assessesing adherence with National Cholesterol Education Program/Adult Treatment Panel 3 lipid guidelines for treatment of type 2 diabetics ages 40-75 cared for by internal medicine residents. Presented to William Beaumont Hospital Internal Medicine Residents classes 2003-2005 in April, 2003 2. Proposed to Beaumont Hospital, yet denied Human Investigations Committee approval – prospective randomized trial to study the short-term effects on lipoprotein profile of blood donation in patients with Metabolic Syndrome and clinical evidence of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. Primary Investigator: self; Co-Investigators: Tusar Desai, MD – Division of Gastroenterology, Beaumont Hospital and Solomon Rosenblatt, MD – Division of Endocrinology, Beaumont Hospital 3. Sub-Primary Investigator to the following industry sponsored research studies: 1 – Phase 3, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo Controlled, Multi-center Trial to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of BMS-298585 in Combination with Metformin Therapy in Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes Who Have Inadequate Glycemic Control On Metformin Therapy Alone (Bristol-Meyers-Squibb) 2 – Phase 3, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo Controlled, Multi-center Trial to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of BMS-298585 in Combination with Glyburide Therapy in Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes Who Have Inadequate Glycemic Control On Sulfonylurea Therapy Alone (Bristol-Meyers-Squibb) 3 – A multi-center, Double-Blind, Randomized, Parallel Group, 6-Week Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Ezetimibe/Simvastatin Combination Tablet Versus Atorvastatin in Patients with Hypercholesterolemia (Merck and Co., Inc) 4 – A Multi-center, Phase II safety trial of cannibinoid receptor blocker for appetite suppression in the treatment of obesity (Merck and Co., Inc) 4. American College of Physicians Poster Presentation: first case ever described of sepsis secondary to Pseudomonas folliculitis of the scalp in an immunocompetent host PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPSAmerican Society for Nutrition American College of Physicians/American Board of Internal Medicine

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