Dr. Lovejoy is a translational and behavioral scientist with deep experience in personalized medicine and behavior change. She holds a B.S. degree from Duke University in Zoology, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Emory University in Physiological Psychology, and she completed postdoctoral training in Endocrinology and Metabolism at Emory University School of Medicine. During her academic career, Dr. Lovejoy held the Manship Endowed Professorship in Diabetes at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University. She is a Past-President of the Obesity Society and has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers on her research. She currently holds affiliate faculty appointments at the Institute for Systems Biology and Washington State University’s Elson S Floyd College of Medicine.
More recently, Dr. Lovejoy has held senior executive roles in several health and wellness companies. She was Chief Translational Science Officer at Arivale, the scientific wellness startup uniting systems biology and behavioral science to help consumers optimize wellness, where she developed the behavioral coaching program, oversaw selection of genomic and other biomarkers returned to consumers, and helped guide the focus of the multi-omic research program. She was also Head of Science at Seven, a digital health startup developing a unique behavioral AI platform to improve lifespan and healthspan, as well as the VP of Innovation and Program Strategy at the Lifestyle Medicine Institute.