Peter Desider Vash
About
Dr. Peter D. Vash is an internal medicine physician with subspecialty training in endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism, practicing in Los Angeles, California. He holds an MD and a Master of Public Health and is licensed in California. His clinical work centers on medical weight loss and metabolic weight management, with an emphasis on helping patients achieve sustainable results through evidence-based approaches that include FDA-approved weight loss medications, nutritional counseling, and individualized consultations through his practice, AttenuSlim.
Dr. Vash has contributed to peer-reviewed literature on obesity and metabolic health, with publications appearing in journals including Obesity (Silver Spring), the Journal of the Cardiometabolic Syndrome, Obesity Research, and JAMA. His published work addresses topics such as metabolic syndrome resolution in pediatric patients following weight loss, the role of prior authorization in medication compliance for obesity treatment, and the broader clinical and social dimensions of obesity as a disease. He has also written on GLP-1 medications, anti-obesity pharmacotherapy, and related aspects of weight management for patient-facing audiences.
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Publications
- Paediatric respiratory isolation: A challenge for a secondary care hospital! A service innovation project.
- Yes, obesity is a serious disease but it must also be taken seriously.
- A piece of my mind. Filling the void.
- Metabolic syndrome resolution in children and adolescents after 10 weeks of weight loss.
- Does prior authorization of sibutramine improve medication compliance or weight loss?
- Scrotal cooling increases rectal temperature in man.
- The new medical student.
- Creative literature for doctors.
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