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At Cedars-Sinai, the work you do every day directly impacts others' lives. Our passionate and dedicated culture has earned us six Magnet designations for nursing excellence. Join us and discover why U.S. News & World Report recognizes us as one of America's Best Hospitals!

Dieting and exercising alone may not be enough to help you lose excess weight. At the Cedars-Sinai Center for Weight Management and Metabolic Health, we offer a range of surgical and nonsurgical options to help you lose weight and keep it off.

About the Obesity Medicine Program:

The Obesity Medicine Program is a comprehensive outpatient service providing evidence-based care for medically complex older adult patients with obesity and related metabolic diseases. Our patients often present with advanced obesity related conditions, including end-organ diseases such as cirrhosis and end-stage renal disease. We co-manage conditions associated with obesity, including type 2 diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD/MASH), hypertension, and mental health conditions. The program integrates obesity management medications, intensive lifestyle intervention, and collaborative care with procedural and surgical colleagues to provide comprehensive cardiometabolic optimization within a coordinated, multidisciplinary framework. We also provide preoperative cardiometabolic optimization for patients preparing for surgery at Cedars-Sinai.

Responsibilities:

• Support a growing team of obesity medicine physicians in delivering comprehensive, high-quality, and compassionate care to patients with obesity.
• Conduct and provide ongoing follow-up care.
• Develop and manage individualized, evidence-based treatment plans, including pharmacotherapy.
• Monitor metabolic parameters and adjust therapy as necessary.
• Manage patient communications, including portal messages and results follow-up.
• Coordinate prior authorizations and appeals for obesity medications.
• Collaborate effectively with interdisciplinary team members.
• Contribute to the development of clinical protocols to standardize evidence-based care.
• Document patient encounters in compliance with regulatory and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Master of Nursing Degree.
• Graduate of an accredited Nurse practitioner program approved by the California Board of Registered.

• At least one (1) year of experience working as a Nurse Practitioner in obesity medicine, endocrinology, hepatology, cardiology OR primary care.

• Current CA RN License.
• Nurse Practitioner and Furnishing License.
• Certification as a Nurse Practitioner recognized nationally.
• Current DEA License.
• Current BLS Certification
• Obesity Management in Primary Care Training and Certificate Program (highly desirable).

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About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.

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