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George A. Bray, M.D., MACP, MACE is a Boyd Professor at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Professor of Medicine at the Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans. He was the first Executive Director of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, a post he held from 1989 to 1999. He is a Master in both the American College of Physicians and the American College of Endocrinology. Dr. Bray founded the North American Association for the Study of Obesity (NAASO now The Obesity Society), and he was the founding editor of its journal, Obesity Research, as well as co-founder of the International Journal of Obesity and the first editor of Endocrine Practice, the official journal of the American College of Endocrinologists. Dr. Bray has received many awards during his medical career. They have included the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars, Honorary Fellow, American Dietetic Association, Joseph Goldberger Award from the American Medical Association, the McCollum Award from the American Society of Clinical Nutrition and the Osborne-Mendel Award from the American Society of Nutritional. Dr. Bray has also received the TOPS Award from NAASO, the Weight Watchers Award, the Bristol-Myers Squibb Mead Johnson Award in Nutrition and the Stunkard Lifetime Achievement Award. During the past 40 years, Dr. Bray has authored or coauthored more than 1,700 publications, ranging from peer-reviewed articles to reviews, books, book chapters and abstracts.

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