Patient appointments and clinical trials
Mayo Clinic offers a wide range of clinical services for patients. Both patients and medical professionals can request appointments and referrals to Mayo Clinic for concerns related to nutrition and obesity or being overweight.
Mayo Clinic works with hundreds of insurance companies and is an in-network provider for millions of people. In most cases, Mayo Clinic doesn't require a physician referral. Some insurers require referrals or may have additional requirements for certain medical care. All appointments are prioritized based on medical need.
For patients
Find appointment contact information for the Mayo Clinic location near you, including toll-free telephone numbers and hours of operation, along with online request forms for both U.S. patients and international patients. Find appointments at Mayo Clinic.
For medical professionals
Medical professionals can request patient referrals to Mayo Clinic using the online physician referring system.
Clinical trials
Mayo Clinic offers numerous clinical trials related to obesity at all of its campus locations.
Part of Mayo Clinic's commitment to its patients involves doing research that can help people live longer, healthier lives. Clinical trials are research studies that involve volunteer participants. They help healthcare professionals better understand, diagnose, treat and prevent many different diseases and conditions.
Some of Mayo Clinic's clinical trials related to obesity include:
- Nutrition interventions.
- Food as medicine.
- Lifestyle interventions.
- Antiobesity medicines.
- Wearable activity trackers.
- Endoscopic procedures.
- Bariatric surgery.
- Precision medicine of obesity.
- Rare genetic disorders of obesity.
- An obesity-related data library.
Find all open clinical trials related to obesity.
Mayo Clinic also has thousands of other active clinical trials and research studies, and it coordinates national clinical trials with other medical institutions.