Dr. Robert Kushner is Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. He recieved his medical degree from the University of Illinois. After finishing a residency in Internal Medicine at Northwestern University, he went on to complete a post-graduate fellowship in Clinical Nutrition and earned a Masters degree in Clinical Nutrition and Nutritional Biology from the University of Chicago.  Dr. Kushner is past president of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) and the American Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists (ABPNS), and current Vice President of The Obesity Society (TOS). He is on the editorial board for Obesity Management, Obesity, the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, and Today’s Diet & Nutrition.

In 2002, Dr. Kushner was the recipient of the distinguished Dannon Institute Award for Excellence in Medical/Dental Nutrition Education presented by the American Society for Clinical Nutrition. Dr. Kushner has authored over 140 original articles, reviews and book chapters covering medical nutrition, medical nutrition education, and obesity.  He is author of Dr. Kushner’s Personality Type Diet (St. Martin’s Griffin Press, 2003), medical director of diet.com, an online version of the personality type diet, and editor of the American Medical Association’s (AMA) Assessment and Management of Adult Obesity:  A Primer for Physicians (2003).  His most recent book, Fitness Unleashed (Three Rivers Press, 2006) provides a combined weight loss and execise plan for owners and their companion dogs.