The BEAT Obesity Foundation
Learn about our foundation & board membersThe BEAT Obesity Foundation strives to improve standards of excellence for the treatment of obesity and its related co-morbid conditions, through clinical research, physician and patient education, grants and community outreach programs.
Our Purpose
We will provide education on the effects of overweight and obesity on a local, national and international level, to help create awareness that medical help is available and appropriate to treat and manage this widespread chronic disease. Our philanthropic programs will include community-based events, such as free medical screening and educational sessions, supervised exercise walks and/or coordinated road races and other events, and the use of technologies to motivate patients and their families to increase physical activity. We will utilize the corporation’s website to provide informational facts, statistics and other related data on the causes and treatment options for obesity, as well as the need for prevention of obesity across all age groups. We will conduct ongoing clinical research using novel approaches to weight reduction, in collaboration with other entities who share our mission. We seek to contribute meaningful medical and epidemiological data to the scientific community, for furthering the discovery of mechanisms for obesity reduction and/or prevention.
Board of Directors
Steven A.R. Murphy MD
Dr. Steven A.R. Murphy, MD is the Managing Partner and President of the Diagnostic & Medical Specialists of Greenwich serving locations in New York, NY, and Greenwich, CT.
Dr. Murphy is a Yale trained, Board Certified Internist and bariatrician as well as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Cell Biology & Anatomy at the New York Medical College. He sits on the research informed cohort oversight board of Cornell’s Personalized Medicine Collaborative and Pharmacogenomics Advisory Group.
Dr. Murphy completed his internship in Medical Genetics and Pediatrics at The Mount Sinai Hospital. He served as the Chief Resident in Internal Medicine at Greenwich Hospital/Yale School of Medicine. Finally he served as the Clinical Fellow in Medical Genetics at Yale School of Medicine, leaving early to start his Personalized Primary Care and Weight Loss medicine practices.
Dr. Murphy is an avid researcher in human genetics, well versed in anti-aging medicine, obesity, metabolism, and hormone optimization.
Ali Gilbert, CSCS*D and CGFP-3
Ali has been committed to achieving excellence in the field of performance training for over a decade. She has become highly sought after for her unique approach to training that includes nutrition and hormone optimization in conjunction with changing body composition.
Ali found her passion in optimizing men’s health, her clientele consists of busy elite professionals who aspire to become stronger, optimize testosterone and conquer their nutrition.
She lectures nationally on various Hormonal health topics educating both the public and fellow industry professionals.
Ali holds a B.S. in exercise science from Springfield College, and holds certifications through the Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) Certified Level 3 Fitness Professional,NSCA as a certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist FMS Certified Level II, CFSC, FRCMs. She is also featured on numerous podcasts and publications on the topic of testosterone and fitness.
Ali is available to train in Greenwich, CT or online under her personal brand Metabolic Golf (metabolicgolf.com).
Ali enjoys snowboarding, deadlifts & strong coffee, while residing in Greenwich, CT
She serves as Partner of the Greenwich DX Sports Labs and is our Director of Performance.
Michael Manavian
Known as the Bodybuilding Golf Pro, Michael has dedicated his life to improving performance in many arenas. Through his aspirations of becoming a professional golfer, Michael has turned over every stone possible and brought them all together in a coherent and simple to demonstrate systematic approach all designed to best develop champion athletes. His foundational principles can be seen in the Triangle of Performance – which states, a stimulus creates a biochemical response which requires nutrition to repair in order to return you to being able to handle more intense stimulus. In other words, training creates a hormonal response, which requires food to repair.
Combining this knowledge of how all the systems of the body work, blends seamlessly in his vast biomechanical knowledge of the golf swing. Being able to observe and diagnose a golf swing utilizing the most advanced 3D motion capture software, Michael doesn’t guess on the measurements of the swing, and understands how to create the most efficient changes to the golf swing’s motor program by utilizing progressive step by step cues that lead the student to understand for themselves the fundamental tasks required to play successful golf at any level.
Michael is an Authorized Instructor in the Stack and Tilt® Network and is the author of Atomic Golf. Michael serves as partner of the Greenwich DX Sports Labs and is our Director of Golf and Performance Nutrition.
Jennifer Ramirez
Bio coming soon.
Alexis Murphy
Bio coming soon.