D r. Joseph K. Chemplavil is a cardiovascular endocrinologist, in private practice in Virginia for the last 30 years. He received his medical degree from India and finished his post-graduate training in Internal Medicine, and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism in the US. He practices medicine by the philosophy of “Customized Common sense CARE™”, a service mark logo that he had patented by the United States Patent and Trademark Office in 1991.
He believes that medicine is at the intersection of philosophy and science and considers himself to be a scientific philosopher. “Medicine is the art of knowing the science and treating the patients, and not just their diseases.” His opinions were published in TIME magazine on Health-Care Mess & Genetics: The Future is Now, and in BusinessWeek on Hopes and Hazards of the Biotech Century & Medical Guesswork-Healthy Discourse.
He received national attention for changing a law in the US congress when he offered free care to the dependents of the soldiers in the First Persian Gulf war (Desert Storm) in 1991.
Dr. Joseph Chemplavil developed the Dollar for Pound weight loss program in 2002.
His Dollar for Pound Program/Dieting for Dollars, was featured in XM Satellite Radio, AP News, American Medical News, Shape Magazine, USA Weekend Magazine, The Globe and Mail, PRNewswire, The Medical Post, Toronto Sun, Elsevier Global Medical News, CBC News Sunday and National Review of Medicine (“Would you pay patients to lose weight?” was the subject of NRM Canadian Physicians’ poll in March, 2008)
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