Affiliations
Scripps Clinic, University of California San Francisco
DisclosuresThe following pharmaceutical companies are companies that Dr. Fujioka have done business with over the past 3 years. These companies have a metabolic agent or device that he has researched or have been asked to consult about. Dr. Fujioka does not sit on any of the financial boards of these companies. He also does not own individual stocks of any of these companies. Consulting is done on a scientific advisory board or steering committee. Dr. Fujioka has received research grants, consulted for or been a member of the speakers bureau for Orexigen, Novanordisk, Enteromedics, Amylin, Roche, Nastech, Trans Tech, Pfizer, Arena, Merck, Sanofi, Vivus and Lilly.
Dr. Ken Fujioka is director of the Nutrition and Metabolic Research Center and director of the center for Weight Management at the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California. He is assistant clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. Fujioka received his MD from the University of Hawaii School of Medicine, and went on to complete an internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Hawaii. He completed a fellowship in diabetes and clinical nutrition at the University of Southern California Medical Center in Los Angeles County.
Dr. Fujioka has completed over 75 clinical trials, the majority in metabolism-related areas of obesity. He has conducted multiple studies on food intake in human beings and the effects of food and food supplements. His other areas of experience include cholesterol, hypertension, diabetes, eating disorders. Dr. Fujioka has been a consultant to several pharmaceutical companies and CROs to help in protocol design, review of obesity trials, and marketing.
Dr. Fujioka has been an expert witness for the state of California Medical board on the appropriate use of weight loss agents in the treatment of the obese patient. He authored a comprehensive analysis of the appropriate treatment of the obese patient (1997) for the state of California. He has been or is a reviewer for the following journals: Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA); Obesity Research; Diabetes Care; Obstetrics and Gynecology; and Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism.