• HOME
  • ABOUT US
  • BECOME A MEMBER
  • Medicaid Coverage at Risk
  • Jeff Young 2025
  • 2025 COMMITTEES
  • 2024 Highlights
  • Resources
  • Obesity Certification
  • Sponsorship and Donations
  • MEMBER DISCUSSION BOARD
  • Dr Colleen Tewksbury 2025
  • DR JOHN PARKER 2025
  • More
    • HOME
    • ABOUT US
    • BECOME A MEMBER
    • Medicaid Coverage at Risk
    • Jeff Young 2025
    • 2025 COMMITTEES
    • 2024 Highlights
    • Resources
    • Obesity Certification
    • Sponsorship and Donations
    • MEMBER DISCUSSION BOARD
    • Dr Colleen Tewksbury 2025
    • DR JOHN PARKER 2025
  • HOME
  • ABOUT US
  • BECOME A MEMBER
  • Medicaid Coverage at Risk
  • Jeff Young 2025
  • 2025 COMMITTEES
  • 2024 Highlights
  • Resources
  • Obesity Certification
  • Sponsorship and Donations
  • MEMBER DISCUSSION BOARD
  • Dr Colleen Tewksbury 2025
  • DR JOHN PARKER 2025

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.

Copyright © 2024 NC Obesity Society - All Rights Reserved.

  • HOME

Powered by GoDaddy

This website uses cookies.

We use cookies to analyze website traffic and optimize your website experience. By accepting our use of cookies, your data will be aggregated with all other user data.

Accept

Urgent: NC Medicaid Coverage for Obesity Medications at Risk

A dangerous provision is quietly making it's way through the NC House budget that could strip life-saving treatment from thousands of North Carolinians and drive up future costs!


Cilck to Learn More!

Learn More