Craig Primack

Craig Primack MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA

I am a physician who specializes in the field of obesity medicine (medical weight loss). I am certified by The American Board of Obesity Medicine in addition to board certifications in Internal Medicine and in Pediatrics.

I see patients full-time and am co-founder of Scottsdale Weight Loss Center with 4 locations in Arizona (Scottsdale, Chandler, Phoenix and Glendale). We have 5 physicians certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, the most certified Obesity Medicine Physicians in the state of Arizona as well as the most certified Obesity Medicine Physicians in a private clinic in the US.

I am proud to have been listed as one of Phoenix Magazine’s Top Docs in 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, and 2008.

Since 2010, I have served on the Board of Directors for the Obesity Medicine Association-- a professional society of over 2500 clinicians -- We are the clinical leaders in obesity medicine who work to advance the prevention, treatment, and reversal of the disease of obesity. In 2017, I was elected president-elect of the Obesity Medicine Association and will begin serving as president in the fall of 2019.

My belief is in a comprehensive and personalized approach to weight loss. As a medical weight loss doctor, I focus on prescribing weight loss programs that are tailored to my patients’ personalized needs and clinically proven to provide safe and significant weight loss and as well as lessening the severity of weight-related conditions including diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.