Medicine for Humans.
We Are Forbes Health.
We are weight loss/weight management, metabolic health and longevity experts. We specialize in both medical and surgical weight loss and weight management, and we provide advanced, customized, effective, and sustainable treatments for weight conditions, metabolic and hormone health, and healthy longevity.
Forbes Health is led by Dr. Lael E. Forbes, MD, FACS, FASMBS, a leading expert in both surgical and in medical weight loss and weight management. Dr. Forbes is a trailblazer and specialist in the use of GLP-1’s for weight loss and weight management, and in alternate applications of GLP-1’s for aging-related and especially difficult metabolic health, sexual health, and hormone health conditions and syndromes.
Forbes Health offers advanced surgical solutions by one of New York’s most trusted surgeons for severe obesity, hernias, and gastrointestinal conditions. Dr. Lael Forbes is a former professor of surgery and a board-certified top-rated NYC surgeon with privileges at leading NYC area hospitals, and regularly performs weight-loss surgery (for severe and morbid obesity), hernia surgery, and other gastrointestinal procedures.
We are located on NYC’s Upper East Side and in the Westchester/Greenwich CT area, and we are here for you with customized, comprehensive, compassionate, clinically proven care. Look to us to be your expert guide to sustainable weight loss and weight management, to better metabolic, hormone, and sexual health, and to living your longest and healthiest life.
Meet Dr. Lael Forbes
Welcome to Forbes Health, where we practice a model of care that is personal, individual, and customized to each patient’s unique condition and needs. I’m Dr. Lael Forbes, the founder and director of Forbes Health. I am a board-certified surgeon and a specialist in both medical and surgical weight management. I specialize in the use of GLP1’s for a variety of weight management, longevity/anti-aging, and metabolic health conditions.
I have helped hundreds of patients manage their weight safely and sustainably using the most advanced and effective medical and surgical solutions. If you have a problem with weight, or if your goal is to live your longest and healthiest possible life, we at Forbes Health are here to help.
Our focus and expertise encompass metabolic health and anti-aging/longevity medicine. We offer leading-edge custom therapies for hormone and metabolic health issues, visceral fat syndrome, PCOS, sleep apnea, cardiovascular risk, fatty liver disease, and many other conditions that have been found to be responsive to the new class of GLP-1 medications.
I will be your guide at every step of your treatment journey. I look forward to seeing how we can help you to find your way to a healthy weight, and to a state of healthy longevity.
What's New at Forbes Health
“Obesity is not a personal failure—it’s a medical condition with real solutions.”
Listen to Dr. Forbes talk about the new era of weight loss with host Terry Yoffe on the podcast Extraordinary Work: Conversations about Creating Change.
Conditions We Treat and Services We Offer
Medical Weight Loss and Weight Management
Metabolic Health Therapies
Muscle Loss and Muscle Conditioning Therapy
Adolescent Obesity
Bariatric Surgery for Severe Obesity
Surgery for Hernia Repair
Laparoscopies and Endoscopies
Weight Management And Psychological Support
Menopause and BioIdentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT)
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) and GLP-1 Therapy
Sarcopenia ("Skinny Fat Syndrome") and GLP-1 Body Optimization Therapy
Weight Management and Food Coaching/ Nutritional Counseling
Insurance Info
Let’s talk about insurance coverage for surgery. When you give us a call, the Forbes Health team verifies your insurance, check your out-of-network benefits, and determines if your plan may qualify for reimbursements. Our goal is to maximize your insurance coverage for surgical procedures, and minimize any costs to you.
And let’s talk about insurance coverage for prescription medications. We are experts in the often difficult and complicated challenge of getting prescription medications covered by your insurance. (One patient calls us “insurance coverage ninjas”.) Many practices accept the denial of coverage by insurance providers; but we don’t. We go the distance in getting patients covered for their medications.
Our promise to each patient is not only to provide expert, advanced, customized medical care that gets results; we will also be your advocate with insurance providers in the crucial matter of getting your prescription covered.
The Forbes Health Patient Experience
Initial Consultation
The heart of the patient experience at Forbes Health is the relationship between the patient and Dr. Forbes, beginning with an extended initial consultation. In-depth patient info is recorded, including personal and family medical history, behavioral/lifestyle habits, medication and procedure history, previous treatment plans, existing and past diagnoses and conditions, and other key factors and indicators. A detailed medical profile takes form.
Advanced Diagnostics
An incoming patient undergoes an extensive range of tests, generating a database of diagnostic and biometric markers, and forming a detailed clinical Patient Profile. Data about blood composition, fat and muscle mass, metabolic health, heart health, liver health, hormone health, reproductive and sexual health, are evaluated to formulate precise and customized treatment interventions.
Customized Treatment
A patient’s treatment plan is based on extensive diagnostic and biometric data and on clinically proven medications and therapeutics. Every patient’s condition, objectives, and needs are unique, and at Forbes Precision Health, every patient’s treatment plan is customized to address specific health issues, and to optimize and sustain well-being and healthy longevity.
Maintenance and Support
At Forbes Health we emphasize the importance of maintenance and support. That is especially important in a weight loss program. Patients on GLP-1’s for weight loss typically need to be on this type of treatment indefinitely, and monitored for dose efficacy and side effects. For most patients, effective treatment means maintenance consultations typically varying in frequency from six weeks to 12 weeks, and may include regular nutritional and psychological support.
Our Offices
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- (212) 304-4331
- info@myforbeshealth.com