James Anderson, MD, is a professor of medicine and clinical nutrition at the University of Kentucky. He directs the University of Kentucky Health Management Resources Weight Management Program and is chief of the Endocrine-Metabolic Section at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Lexington. He is also director of the University of Kentucky Metabolic Research Group, and just recently formed an exclusive network of physicians, Obesity Research Network, for the purpose of performing clinical research in the area of obesity.
Anderson divides his time between research, teaching, private practice, and administration. He has published more than 120 research articles and more than 120 book chapters, education articles, and books, and serves on the editorial boards of several journals and Prevention Magazine and Veggie Life.