Triple board-certified in internal medicine, obesity medicine, and lifestyle medicine, Dr. Sameer Murali has spent his career proving that sustainable weight management is one of medicine’s highest-leverage interventions. He built and led the largest bariatric program at Kaiser Permanente Southern California, later expanding weight-management care at UT Health Houston, over a career spanning more than 30,000 patient encounters.

His research on obesity and COVID-19 outcomes, co-authored in the Annals of Internal Medicine, helped shape the clinical understanding of the pandemic’s most vulnerable patients — work recognized with Kaiser Permanente’s Physician Exceptional Contribution Award. A TEDx speaker and host of the “Dr. Murali Weighs In” channel, he brings a deeply personal perspective to the work, having navigated his own weight-loss journey before dedicating his career to helping others do the same.