Dr. Ahmad is an obesity medicine specialist and the Founding Director of the Obesity Medicine Institute in Dubai. She is also the Senior Advisor for Obesity Solutions at Johnson & Johnson Middle East where she applies her expertise in obesity medicine towards strategy development and value creation in order to improve and scale obesity care in the region.
She was one of two inaugural fellows in the Obesity Medicine and Nutrition fellowship program established at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in 2007. Prior to relocating to the United Arab Emirates in 2013, she served as instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and faculty at the MGH Obesity, Metabolism and Nutrition Institute.
Her clinical interests are in improving the assessment and management of patients with obesity, developing more effective multimodal combination therapies and pharmacological treatment protocols, and reducing weight-related bias. Dr. Ahmad has a strong interest in understanding the biological underpinnings of obesity. Her previous research, funded by two investigator–initiated NIH grants, focused on the endocrine role of bile acids in energy regulation. She is equally passionate about education in obesity medicine and has helped to establish the curriculum for the MGH preceptorship in obesity medicine and served as the Assistant Director of the 2013 Blackburn Course. She has published on the medical management of obesity, the field of obesity medicine, and the regulation of energy balance as well as spoken at regional and national meetings in the US and abroad.
Dr. Ahmad received her medical degree from the New York University School of Medicine in 2003, and completed her residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. She is board certified in internal medicine and obesity medicine.
Dr. Nadia Ahmad has been a diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine since 2012.