Biography

Dr. Thomas W. Clark is one of the most experienced bariatric surgeons in the United States. He has dedicated his career to helping people successfully lose weight and keep it off for life. In addition to being board certified in surgery and performing more than 3,500 weight loss procedures, Dr. Clark is one of the elite few bariatric surgeons who have also achieved an additional board certification in the field of Bariatric Medicine. This makes him one of the first pioneers in the United States to provide the full continuum of weight loss services for anyone who wants to successfully lose weight.

Dr. Clark has a unique talent for taking the key medically based principles of effective weight loss and making them easy to understand and implement so people not only lose weight, but have the education and skills/habits to keep it off for life. He emphasizes that there are many tools (such as surgery) that help with weight loss, but you must know how to utilize your tool(s) so that they are most effective and maximize your weight loss efforts. In order to help with this process, Dr. Clark founded Weight Management University™, a comprehensive educational program that focuses on the nutritional requirements, lifestyle behavior (habit) modification and fitness information necessary for long term weight loss success. The program is available to anyone online or on-site in Newport News, VA. This is a results-oriented prescription for weight loss success, especially when combined with individualized counseling by Dr. Clark and his professional staff.

Dr. Clark graduated from Davidson College and the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina. Dr. Clark is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, American Society of Bariatric Physicians, the American Medical Association and the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity. Dr. Clark resides in Virginia with his wife and four children. Providing a comprehensive weight loss and weight management continuum of care that finally allows people to live their dreams gives true meaning to what he does every day. Dr. Clark is the founder of the Center for Weight Loss Success where he and his professional staff provide individualized surgical and non-surgical weight loss services, fitness and nutritional products for anyone who wants to lose weight and keep it off for life.

To learn more about Dr. Thomas W. Clark and to receive his free special report “Dr. Clark’s 9 Ways to Jump Start Your Weight Loss”, visit www.cmhva.com and his blog at http://centerformetabolichealth.com/blog You can also follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/docweightloss and read his daily “Dr. Clark’s Tip of the Day” on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Center-for-Metabolic-Health-PLC/128058772979 He can also be found at www.centerforweightlosssuccess.com