Dr. Tripi is a practicing Board Certified Orthopedic Surgeon. After completing her Sports Medicine Fellowship through Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, MI, she moved to southern Colorado where she has been actively practicing for 13 years. She became a Diplomate of the ABOM in 2020 after identifying a paucity in treatment options for her patients experiencing the musculoskeletal effects of obesity. She is passionate about providing Evidence Based education to her patients both from an orthopedic and obesity management standpoint.  

Dr. Neil Skolnik, MD, is a Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University and Associate Director of the Family Medicine Residency Program at Jefferson Health - Abington. Dr. Skolnik has written and edited 6 books and has published more than 500 articles, columns, poems, essays and webinars in both the medical and lay literature including publications in JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Circulation, Medscape, Philadelphia Inquirer and USA Today. He has served on the Expert Panel Report 4 (EPR-4) Working Group, National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Coordinating Committee, National Heart Lung Blood Institute (NHLBI) – the committee that developed the 2020 NIH Asthma Guidelines. He hosts and produces “Diabetes Core Update,” the American Diabetes Association’s official monthly podcast that reviews the most important new articles to come out in the diabetes literature every month, as well as “Diabetes Day by Day”, the ADA’s podcast for people with diabetes. He tries to make sure that each day he spends at least 30 minutes playing the guitar and, to the chagrin of his wife, singing.