Stuart Fischer

Stuart Fischer, M.D. (born July 23, 1950 in Brooklyn, New York) is a physician best known for creating The Park Avenue Diet and has also authored a book by the same name.^[1] This diet is a comprehensive approach to weight loss that addresses several components of image. Dr. Fischer’s philosophy entails reevaluation and improvement of self-confidence, interpersonal skills, bodily physique, hair, clothing, and skin simultaneously with weight loss. To this end he enlisted seven experts from diverse fields to contribute to The Park Avenue Diet, both as a book and as a medical practice.

The experts are Tinsley Mortimer,^[2] Joel Warren, Bernadette Penotti, Dr. Stanley Krippner, Laura Geller, Helen Hellsten, and Chef Marie-Annick Courtier.

A graduate of Yale University, Dr. Fischer completed his residency in internal medicine at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. and served as an attending physician in the emergency room of Cabrini Medical Center in Manhattan for four years.^[3] He also worked with the late Dr. Robert Atkins as the associate medical director of The Atkins Center.

Dr. Fischer is also author the Little Book of Big Medical Emergencies which provides information on how to deal with common medical emergencies such as fainting, heart attacks, epileptic seizures, life-threatening allergic reactions, drowning, etc.

Notes

1. Fischer, Stuart: The Park Avenue Diet, Hatherleigh Press, 2008.
2. New York Magazine, http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2008/03/sexist_diets.html
3. Park Avenue Diet Website, http://www.parkavenuediet.com/meet_dr_fischer.html