CRESSENT PRESSLY, MD

Dr. Cressent Pressly is board-certified physician in family practice and obesity medicine. She attended medical school at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and completed residency at Cone Hospital in Greensboro, NC. After seventeen years as a clinician at Novant Health Maplewood Family Practice in Winston-Salem, NC, she became the medical director of CoreLife Novant Health, a clinic-based program for patients with obesity. She now serves CoreLife as the Chief Medical Officer providing oversight for their collaborative care model including medical, dietetic, behavioral health and fitness providers at twenty-six locations in North Carolina and Maryland. Dr. Pressly is a passionate advocate for and educator on treating the disease of obesity, a member of the Obesity Medicine Association, and an inaugural board member of the NC Obesity Society.