Weight Management & Metabolic Health Physician
About Stem Health
Stem Health is reimagining the primary care experience for individuals who want a more thoughtful relationship with their health. Physician-led and membership-based, we combine medical excellence with the warmth of hospitality anchored in a beautifully designed flagship clinic at First Canadian Place, opening September 2026. Our care model is relationship-based, data-informed, and built on time, trust, and exceptional service.
Position SummaryWeight and metabolic health are among the most complex, most consequential, and most underserved areas of modern primary care. They sit at the intersection of biology, behaviour, environment, and medicine and they deserve a clinical approach that is as sophisticated as the science and as human as the person sitting across from you.
Stem Health is building a medical weight management and metabolic health program that reflects that complexity. We are looking for a physician with formal training or significant clinical experience in obesity medicine to lead this program delivering evidence-based, individualized, and compassionate care to members who are navigating weight, body composition, cardiometabolic risk, and metabolic health as part of their broader health journey.
In this role, you will conduct comprehensive metabolic assessments, develop individualized treatment plans incorporating lifestyle medicine, pharmacotherapy, and advanced diagnostics, and work closely with Stem Health's clinical team, care coordinators, and primary care physicians to deliver a seamlessly integrated metabolic health experience. This is not a volume program. It is a medical program and it will be practiced with the time, the data, and the team that medical weight management actually requires.
Key Responsibilities Comprehensive metabolic assessment- Conduct thorough medical assessments for members presenting with overweight, obesity, or cardiometabolic risk including detailed weight history, eating behaviour patterns, physical activity history, sleep quality, endocrine evaluation, and psychosocial context.
- Order and interpret a comprehensive metabolic workup including fasting glucose, HbA1c, insulin resistance markers (HOMA-IR), lipid fractionation, thyroid function, sex hormones, cortisol, adipokines, and inflammatory markers to establish a complete cardiometabolic risk profile.
- Integrate body composition data from DEXA scanning (lean mass, fat mass, visceral adipose tissue, regional distribution) and resting metabolic rate (RMR) measured via indirect calorimetry into each member's clinical assessment grounding treatment decisions in objective metabolic physiology rather than weight alone.
- Evaluate and document obesity-related comorbidities and contributing conditions, including insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD/MASLD), obstructive sleep apnea, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), hypothyroidism, and mood disorders affecting appetite and energy regulation.
- Assess cardiovascular risk using validated tools (Framingham, SCORE2, ASCVD) alongside clinical findings, body composition, and metabolic data, contributing to the member's comprehensive cardiometabolic risk profile.
- Develop personalized, evidence-based weight management plans that integrate lifestyle medicine, pharmacotherapy, behavioural strategies, and medical monitoring individualized to each member's metabolic profile, health goals, comorbidities, and preferences.
- Prescribe and manage anti-obesity pharmacotherapy in accordance with current Canadian and international evidence-based guidelines including GLP-1 receptor agonists (semaglutide, liraglutide), GLP-1/GIP dual agonists (tirzepatide), bupropion/naltrexone, orlistat, and emerging agents with careful titration, monitoring, and ongoing clinical review.
- Apply lifestyle medicine principles across nutrition, physical activity, sleep, and stress management developing practical, achievable, and medically grounded behavioural prescriptions tailored to each member's capacity and context.
- Develop individualized caloric and macronutrient targets in collaboration with the clinical team, using RMR data and body composition findings as the evidence base for energy balance prescriptions.
- Provide structured, longitudinal follow-up for all weight management program members tracking weight, body composition (DEXA), metabolic markers, pharmacotherapy response,…
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