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About Madelyn Fernstrom, PhD, CNSMadelyn Fernstrom, PhD, CNS is the Senior Advisor of Health Management for UPMC Health Plan. She is also Professor of Psychiatry, Epidemiology and Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Fernstrom is a nationally recognized expert in the field of appetite, weight control, and wellness, with 25 years as a clinician and a researcher. She is also a favorite of the media, most notably as the NBC Today Show Diet and Nutrition Editor. Her work has been quoted in magazines and newspapers from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal to Good Housekeeping, and Glamour.
She is the author of “The Runner's Diet” (Rodale, 2005) an easy-to-read guide incorporating walking and running into a structured eating program for long-term weight loss. Dr. Fernstrom is also the author of The Real You Diet (Wiley, 2010), a popular book providing a self-guided, personalized approach to comprehensive weight loss.
Dr. Fernstrom earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Boston University and a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied nutritional biochemistry, metabolism, and neuropharmacology. She served a fellowship in endocrinology and behavior at the Harvard Medical School and joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh in 1982.
