Biography:

Julien Sanon is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University and a practicing Hospitalist and Nephrologist within the Jefferson–Lehigh Valley Health Network and WellSpan Health Network. His multidisciplinary expertise spans nephrology, obesity medicine, heart failure, and clinical nutrition, uniquely positioning him at the forefront of Cardiovascular–Kidney–Metabolic (CKM) integration in clinical practice. Dr. Sanon is among a group of U.S. clinicians with combined board certifications in Nephrology, Obesity Medicine, and Heart Failure, and formal licensure in Nutrition (LDN), with a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Nutrition and International Nutrition. His academic and clinical work emphasizes the multisystem nature of obesity, the early identification of CKM risk, and the development of integrated care pathways that target disease modification rather than weight reduction alone. He has lectured nationally and internationally on obesity-related organ dysfunction, CKM syndrome, cardiohepatorenal physiology, and onconephrology. With publications in leading cardiology and nephrology journals, Dr. Sanon contributes to advancing evidence-based strategies that bridge hospital medicine, primary care, and specialty care. His current focus includes developing pragmatic CKM implementation frameworks that can be adopted across both high-resource and low-resource healthcare settings. At the World Obesity & Weight Management Congress 2026, Dr. Sanon will present an integrated CKM model designed to transform global obesity care through multisystem risk reduction, organ protection, and scalable population-level strategies.