PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT/NURSE PRACTITIONER

As a part of Duke Health's outpatient clinic network, you will enjoy competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits plans, convenient work hours, and many opportunities for career advancement. Become a part of a team that values and invests in you.

Duke Advanced Practice Highlights:

• The nation's first Physician Assistant Program was created at Duke in 1965 and is consistently ranked No. 1 in the country.
• The Duke School of Nursing is consistently ranked as one of the top nursing schools and their MSN and DNP programs offers eight advanced practice registered nurse majors and specialty certifications, as well as post master's certificates and certification alignment programs.
• Commitment to ongoing learning for APPs through annual CME funding and access to high-quality Duke CME offerings including APP Grand Rounds and a professional advancement program. APPs are leaders in multiple arenas within Duke.
• Duke offers APPs opportunities to practice within team based integrative care in a tremendous variety of specialties. APPs are expected to work to top of scope in order to contribute to Duke's missions which include clinical practice, education, and research.
• Practice locations can include Duke Health's three hospitals or over 140 primary care and specialty care clinics throughout North Carolina.

Job Location

Duke Lifestyle and Weight Management Center

Durham, NC

Job Summary

Join one of the nation's pioneering academic obesity medicine programs.

The Duke Lifestyle and Weight Management Center is seeking an experienced Advanced Practice Provider (Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant) to join our nationally respected multidisciplinary team dedicated to improving the health of patients living with obesity and obesity-related chronic diseases. For more than five decades, Duke has been a leader in evidence-based obesity medicine, integrating medical management, lifestyle medicine, nutrition, behavioral health, exercise science, and patient education into a comprehensive model focused on long-term health outcomes.

This position is centered on treating obesity as a chronic, complex medical disease through comprehensive, longitudinal care rather than episodic weight-loss interventions. The APP will independently manage an ambulatory panel of patients with obesity and associated cardiometabolic conditions, developing individualized treatment plans that integrate lifestyle medicine, evidence-based pharmacotherapy, behavioral interventions, and coordinated specialty care.

As a critical member of Duke Health's comprehensive obesity medicine program, the APP will collaborate closely with obesity medicine physicians, registered dietitians, behavioral health specialists, exercise physiologists, pharmacists, health coaches, primary care providers, bariatric surgery, and the Duke Health & Fitness Center to deliver coordinated, patient-centered care.

This position is primarily based in Durham, North Carolina, with opportunities to provide telehealth services across North Carolina and support the continued expansion of Duke's Lifestyle and Weight Management program throughout the Triangle. The successful candidate will join a nationally respected academic team while helping shape innovative models of multidisciplinary obesity care, expand access to evidence-based treatment, and build meaningful, long-term relationships with patients.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

Clinical Care

Provide comprehensive ambulatory obesity medicine care for adults with overweight, obesity, and obesity-related chronic diseases through evidence-based evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, and longitudinal management.

Responsibilities include:

• Practice at the top of your license as an autonomous clinician within a highly collaborative multidisciplinary team.

• Diagnose and treat obesity as a chronic, complex medical disease using current evidence-based guidelines.
• Develop individualized treatment plans that integrate lifestyle medicine, behavioral interventions, pharmacotherapy, and coordinated specialty care.
• Manage obesity-associated cardiometabolic conditions, including diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, MASLD, sleep apnea, cardiovascular risk factors, and other obesity-related chronic diseases.
• Build long-term therapeutic relationships while monitoring clinical outcomes, laboratory values, and disease progression.
• Deliver care through both in-person and telehealth visits while independently managing a panel of patients through comprehensive obesity medicine evaluations and ongoing follow-up.

Obesity Pharmacotherapy

• Prescribe, initiate, titrate, and monitor FDA-approved anti-obesity medications, including GLP-1 receptor agonists and other evidence-based therapies.
• Partner with pharmacists and care coordinators to optimize medication access, prior authorizations, and insurance navigation.
• Educate patients regarding medication expectations, safety, and long-term management.

Multidisciplinary Care

Collaborate with Duke's multidisciplinary obesity medicine team-including physicians, registered dietitians, behavioral health specialists, exercise physiologists, pharmacists, health coaches, primary care providers, bariatric surgery, and the Duke Health & Fitness Center-to deliver coordinated, patient-centered care.

Patient Education

Empower patients through education and coaching focused on nutrition, physical activity, behavior change, medication management, and sustainable lifestyle modification to improve long-term health outcomes.

Academic Engagement & Program Development

Practice within a nationally respected academic medical center committed to clinical excellence, innovation, and education. Opportunities include participation in quality improvement initiatives, program development, multidisciplinary case conferences, learner education, and evidence-based practice.

As Duke expands obesity medicine services throughout the Triangle, the APP will contribute to innovative models of ambulatory care, telehealth, regional program growth, and improved access to comprehensive obesity medicine across North Carolina.

Job Eligibility Requirements

Education

• Nurse Practitioners: Work requires completion of an accredited Nurse Practitioner program, with a Master's degree in Nursing.
• Physician Assistants: Work requires completion of an accredited Physician Assistant program. A Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree strongly preferred.

Certification

• BLS required.

License

• Nurse Practitioners: Must have current or compact RN licensure & NP approval to practice in the state of North Carolina. BLS required. National certification as a NP required.
• Physician Assistants: Must be licensed in the state of NC, and be certified as a Physician Assistant by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants. BLS required.
• DEA licensure with full prescriptive authority required.

Experience

• 1+ years of APP experience preferred

• Experience in obesity medicine, lifestyle medicine, endocrinology, internal medicine, family medicine, preventive medicine, or cardiometabolic care preferred
• Experience managing anti-obesity pharmacotherapy, including GLP-1 receptor agonists and other FDA-approved therapies preferred
• Pluses if prior experience in ambulatory or telehealth care delivery

Job Hours

Monday-Friday, day shift, with flexibility to meet clinic needs