Dr. Judy Shiau is the Medical Director of LEAF Weight Management Clinic™, a community-based multidisciplinary bariatric clinic in Ottawa, Ontario (www.leafwmc.com). LEAF stand for Live.Eat.Activity.Forever.™ These words set the goals and principles that people who struggle with weight can follow:
Live: What are the lifestyle habits I can practice (sleep, stress management, mindfulness, supportive relationships, ...)
Eat: What eating strategies and nutrition choices make sense for me?
Activity: What can I do to reduce sedentary time and be active? 
Forever: Can I continue to practice these habits for the foreseeable future?
 
As a General Internist with the certification of Diplomate of the American Board in Obesity Medicine, Dr. Shiau is an Assistant Professor and Bariatric Medicine Fellowship program director for the University of Ottawa, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism.  Through LEAF Weight Management Clinic and the Ottawa Hospital Bariatric Centre of Excellence, she trains future generation physicians how to better help their patients with overweight or obesity.
Dr. Shiau is the President of Obesity Canada Ottawa-Gatineau chapter and is on the executive for the Canadian Association of Bariatric Physicians and Surgeons. She is the author of the Post-Operative Management for Bariatric Surgery chapter for the 2019 Canadian Obesity Clinical Practice Guidelines.