Rekha B. Kumar
Associate professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and senior medical director at Found Health, focusing on endocrinology and metabolic treatments including GLP-1 therapies.
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Mar 13, 2026 • 25min
The promise of obesity drugs and their potential risks
Dr. Anna Lembke, addiction medicine expert at Stanford; Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, pharmacoepidemiologist at Washington University; Dr. Rekha B. Kumar, endocrinologist at Weill Cornell/Found Health; and Dr. Jody Dushay, obesity specialist at Harvard/Beth Israel discuss GLP-1 drugs. They explore who should use them and how they change appetite and reward. Conversations cover access and cost, risks of unsupervised use, effects on addiction, and concerns about stopping treatment.
