Sylvia Gonsahn-Bollie

Dr. Sylvia Gonsahn-Bollie, MD, is an award-winning physician with over ten years of clinical experience and a dual board-certified obesity specialist with a passion for personalizing population-based data. Dr. Bollie founded Embrace You Weight & Wellness to address the disparities in personalized obesity care. Embrace You Weight & Wellness is virtual wellness & weight loss telehealth & virtual coaching service. Launched in August 2020 during the pandemic, Embrace You uses individual and group coaching to produce sustainable weight loss & weight loss. Embrace You has helped people stop obsessing over the scale, embrace nutritious food choices, and choose practical tools for individualized weight loss.

However, Dr. Bollie is more than a doctor. She is a wellness coach who has maintained 60lb weight loss for eight years. In addition, Dr. Bollie is an inspiring public speaker, content creator, obesity education consultant, and bestselling author of "Embrace You: Your Guide to Transforming Weight Loss Misconceptions Into Lifelong Wellness." "Embrace You: Your Guide" is Healthline.com's "Best Weight Loss Book of 2022."
Numerous media outlets have featured Dr.Bollie's work, including ABC, NBC, Fox, Forbes, Eat This Not That, Obesity Help, Parade, Prevention, and more.

She is the co-founder of the Overcoming Obesity Club on Clubhouse, which has over 400 members. Since March 2021, this group has met weekly to discuss various topics on obesity.

In addition to Clubhouse, Dr. Bollie is active on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, where she engages thousands of followers with person-first, evidence-based weight & wellness content.

She has been an active member of the Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) since 2015 and serves on many committees. In April 2022, she will speak at the Spring Conference on "Obesity & Black Women: What are We Missing?"