The Nutrition and Wellness Center provides the kind of advanced clinical expertise, specialized services, and state-of-the-art technology you will find only at a major university medical center. At the same time, we strive to maintain all the convenience and comforts found in private physicians' offices.
Whether you are referred by your own physician, by your health plan for special care, or you regularly receive health care at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago, you will receive the highest quality personalized care possible.
All clinicians at the Center are faculty members at the UIC College of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, or Applied Health Sciences. They utilize their knowledge as educators and as nationally recognized investigators to develop the most appropriate, innovative, and state-of-the-art care possible for each individual patient.
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HMR ®
Health Management Resources
The UIC Nutrition and Wellness Center now participates in HMR's Diet Programs. HMR has been helping dieters achieve long-term healthy weight loss for over 25 years. HMR's clinically proven diet programs are a sensible, healthy way to lose weight- no gimmicks or fads. Created by physicians and other healthcare professionals, and backed by extensive scientific data, HMR Programs are widely recognized for their successful outcomes.
Each program offers a highly structured, easy-to-follow diet which emphasizes healthy eating habits and fast, long-lasting weight loss. They're ideal for those wanting to lose weight and become healthier, including patients with medical conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, and fatty liver disease, among others.
In addition to being clinically effective for weight and health management, HMR Programs are cost effective, too.
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Weight loss for life
UIC's Nutrition and Wellness Center helps patients achieve and maintain weight-loss goals through healthy lifestyles
Since it opened four years ago, the UIC Nutrition and Wellness Center's Weight Management Program has helped more than 3,000 people improve their health by reducing their weight. Drawing on an array of resources and medical staff that reflects the multi-faceted nature of weight gain, the physician-monitored program emphasizes sustained weight loss based on realistic, long-term goals. "The education and counseling we do is key to the success of the program," says Director Elisa Stamm Kogan, MS. "Our clinicians provide a range of services that supports the work done by our physicians. Doctors can prescribe weight-loss medications and perform bariatric (weight-loss) surgery-but those are only tools that help individuals lose weight. What makes us unique is our integrated approach to weight loss."
Customized programs The WMP begins with a comprehensive medical and nutritional evaluation. Patients are then offered individualized treatment plans that incorporate nutrition education, physical activity and behavior modification. Patients also may be offered prescription medications and/or bariatric surgery as adjunct treatments. The bariatric surgery program has three surgeons who perform more than 250 cases each year. WMP patients have run the gamut, Kogan says. One 500-pound patient spent more than a year losing nearly 100 pounds in the medical management program before undergoing gastric bypass surgery. To date, that patient has lost almost 250 pounds. Another patient counts her success in burgers-she went from two large ones for lunch every day to one "junior" version. Two years ago, 150 employees of the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago lost 643 pounds collectively in a dietitian-monitored, 12-week program that focused on behavioral and lifestyle changes. "We don't put patients on diets," Kogan says. "Studies have shown that diets alone don't result in long-term weight loss. The WMP doesn't just help patients lose weight today, it teaches them the necessary skills to keep the weight off for the rest of their lives."
Rick Asa, UIC Alumni Magazine
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