The Stanford Metabolic Health Interventions and Lifestyle Empowerment Support (SMILES) Program aims to empower patients to achieve better cardiometabolic health through evidence-based obesity management and lifestyle medicine interventions, leveraging multi-disciplinary team-based care. Our vision is to create a healthier community by transforming the way we approach cardiometabolic health - through personalized, preventive, and partnership-driven care that is informed by the latest evidence in obesity and lifestyle medicine.  

Varalakshmi (Lakshmi) Niranjan, MD, MBA, Dip ABOM
Program Director

Akemi Brown, MD, MS, Dip ABOM
Clinical Champion