Dr. Rhodes, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Associate Medical Director, Comprehensive Weight Management, and Obesity Medicine Elective Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Allison Rhodes, MD, DABOM, FOMA, is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Associate Medical Director of the Comprehensive Weight Management Program and Obesity Medicine Elective Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. She completed her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and received additional training through Tulane University's Culinary Medicine Specialist Program. Committed to increasing awareness of evidence-based obesity treatment, Dr. Rhodes is a Fellow of the Obesity Medicine Association, serves on the editorial board of Obesity Pillars, and has lectured nationally and internationally on obesity management and pharmacology. Her research interests span obesity care delivery systems, the cardiometabolic health impacts of obesity, and body composition assessment. She is the principal investigator of an American College of Physicians-funded project leveraging Learning Health Systems and implementation science approaches to create a digital, publicly accessible toolkit that helps primary care physicians, care teams, and health systems implement evidence-based obesity care.

Through leadership in obesity medicine, Dr. Allison Rhodes has helped drive and shape conversations around the role of GLP-1 therapies within chronic disease management and individual wellness.