Angela Fitch, MD, FACP, FOMA, Dipl. ABOM
President, Obesity Medicine Association
Chief Medical Officer, knownwell
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Angela Fitch is the founder and chief medical officer at knownwell and former co-director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Weight Center and faculty at Harvard Medical School. She graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and then went on to do a combined residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children’s Hospitals. After her four-year residency, Dr. Fitch was chief resident in internal medicine for another year. Dr. Fitch then moved to Minnesota to be a primary care physician for eight years for Fairview Health Systems. There, she developed her skills and passion for treating obesity in the primary care setting and also developed a medical home model and a new system of primary care delivery.
Dr. Fitch helped create a multidisciplinary medical-surgical weight center at the University of Cincinnati and was the medical director of the Executive Health Program and Vice President of Primary Care before moving to Boston to join the MGH Weight Center.
She currently is serving as president of the Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) and has previously served as president-elect, vice president, secretary treasurer, and trustee on OMA’s Board of Trustees, the 2015-2016 chair of the clinical management of obesity section of The Obesity Society, and a member of the ABOM writing committee.
