Marcus Bell, MD
Medical Reviewer
Marcus Bell, MD is a board-certified obesity medicine physician with 14 years' experience at a teaching hospital. He has supervised 1,600 clinic visits and led 2,400 telehealth sessions for weight-management patients. He ran two 12-week GLP-1 dosing trials involving 240 participants, reverse-engineered three popular weight-loss apps to test dose calculators, and has authored 28 peer-reviewed articles and 14 clinical protocols. He reviews insurer coverage language for obesity drugs and trains residents on safe GLP-1 initiation.
Marcus reads trial protocols and FDA labeling, then reproduces dosing scenarios for common comorbidities — type 2 diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and depression. He audits telehealth flows and calculator logic, checks adverse‑event rates against trial data, and verifies insurer coverage terms. He documents safety flags and practical steps for clinicians and patients and signs off on medical claims in our GLP-1 coverage.