Dr. Wharton has a doctorate in Pharmacy and Medicine from the University of Toronto. He is the medical director of the Wharton Medical Clinic, a community based internal medicine weight management and diabetes clinic. He is an adjunct professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario and York University in Toronto. He is also academic staff at Women’s College Hospital, and clinical staff at Hamilton Health Sciences. Dr. Wharton’s research focuses on bariatric medicine and type 2 diabetes. He is the primary author on many of the trial publications. Read More Here. He is also the co-lead author of the Canadian Obesity Guidelines. Dr. Wharton is involved in activism to achieve health equity in Canada. He founded the BMSA (Black Medical Students Association) at the University of Toronto in 2000. The BMSA is now a recognized mentorship organization across Canada.