Dr. Ellina Lytvyak, MD, PhD, DABOM, FRCPC, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. She completed medical school in Ukraine and obtained her PhD Degree in Gastroenterology/Hepatology. She was awarded a Hubert Humphrey Fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship, by the United States Department of State, and completed it at Tulane University, New Orleans, USA. She also completed her Post-Doctoral Fellowship with the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta. Dr. Ellina Lytvyak is certified in Obesity Medicine by the American Board of Obesity Medicine and also certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Public Health and Preventive Medicine. She is a Founder of the Bariatric Medicine Clinic at the University of Alberta and provides comprehensive evidence-based tertiary care for the complex multimorbid population of patients.