Richard L. Atkinson, M.D. graduated from the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, and trained in Endocrine-Metabolism at UCLA-Harbor General Hospital, Torrance, CA, and Walter Reed Army Hospital. He is Clinical Professor of Pathology, Virginia Commonwealth University; Editor of the International Journal of Obesity and of Nutrition and Diabetes; and a Member, Board of Directors, International Association for the Study of Obesity. |
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He is the owner of Obetech, LLC, Richmond, VA. This company sells diagnostic tests for adenoviruses that produce obesity and other diseases. Obetech has multiple patents in the area of virus-induced obesity, diagnostic assays, antiviral agents, and vaccines.
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