Ken Fujioka

Dr. Fujioka is currently Director of the Nutrition and Metabolic Research Center and the Center for Weight Management at Scripps Clinic in the Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology. He spends his mornings doing clinical research and the afternoon runs the Center for Weight Management. The Center was started 20 years ago by Dr. Fujioka and now sees over 1000 patients per month.

Dr. Fujioka has authored over 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals on weight management and related comorbid disease. He has participated as a PI on over 100 clinical trials and sub-PI on numerous NIH grants. He has authored a comprehensive standard of care for the California State Medical board (1997) on obesity treatment and lectured numerous political groups on obesity treatments. Dr. Fujioka earned his medical degree from the University of Hawaii School of Medicine, in Honolulu, where he also completed his internship and residency training. His postgraduate training continued at the University of Southern California Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Dr. Fineman graduated from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo with a B.S. in Microbiology (Clinical Chemistry emphasis) and received Master of Science and Master of Advanced Studies degrees in Molecular Pathology and Clinical Research from the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Fineman received a Ph.D. in medicine at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.