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Richard Morgan Downey
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Richard Morgan Downey is an American obesity advocate, consultant and editor of the Downey Obesity Report. Downey is the former executive director of the American Obesity Association and has been actively involved in the obesity field for since 1998. He organized the first conference on obesity as a public policy issue in 1999, and has testified before Congressional Committees. In addition, he has approximately 20 professional publications and has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, and interviewed on The Today Show and NPR.
Downey currently consults with several organizations on obesity issues and serves as the Policy Director of the STOP Obesity Alliance, part of George Washington University's School of Public Health and Health Services, and is a member of the steering committee of the Coalition to Prevent DVT.
From 1998 to 2006, Downey was the executive director of the American Obesity Association (AOA). AOA was an educational and advocacy organization dedicated to promoting understanding of obesity and advocating public policies to combat the epidemic. During his tenure he organized the first conferences on obesity as a public policy issue, especially childhood obesity, secured an Internal Revenue System Revenue Ruling that expenses for weight loss treatment were eligible for the medical deduction on individual taxes; convinced the Social Security Administration, the Internal Revenue Service and Medicare (the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) that obesity is a disease; pushed Surgeon General David Satcher to focus on obesity leading to his groundbreaking Surgeon General's report; and helped to greatly expand Medicare coverage of bariatric surgery.
From 2006 to 2008 he was the executive vice president of the Obesity Society, the medical and scientific society for obesity. While there, Downey initiated a program to develop a credential to recognize physicians specializing in the treatment of obesity and established a section of the Society dedicated to Health Services Research.
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