Michael Rosenbaum, MD, is a physician-scientist and Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics and Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City. He is also a practicing pediatrician and a member of the. Columbia Narrative Medicine Journalism Workshop. His translational research focuses on understanding the regulation of body weight from the lowly adipocyte to the highest cortical centers of the brain and his op-ed and narrative medicine work has appeared in The NY Times, The Hill, Fortune, USA Today and elsewhere.