Dr. Anegawa is the founder of OSR Weight Management-Hawaiʻi Metabolic Medicine, an obesity-focused specialty care practice. She also serves as Clerkship Director for the Department of Medicine of the University of Hawaiʻi where she oversees all student education and performs clinical care and teaching. In this role, she is working with the American Society of Bariatric Physicians’ Curriculum Committee to create the first nationally standardized obesity course of study for medical students and residents. Linda has 13 years of clinical practice experience in academic primary care and obesity-focused specialty clinics and was formerly on clinical faculty at Stanford. Dr. Anegawa consults for multiple start-up companies on the use of novel technologies in obesity-related medical education and improving patient access to care.
Dr. Anegawa is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine where she also received an M.S. in Pharmacology. Dr. Anegawa then completed her Internal Medicine residency at Stanford University. She is Board Certified in both Internal Medicine and Obesity Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.
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