
Dr. Franchell Hamilton MD, FACS, FASMBS, DABOM is a board-certified surgeon who specializes in integrative obesity medicine and founder of NeuroSwitch Weight Loss™ . After completing her specialty training in Bariatric Surgery, Dr. Hamilton went to work helping patients struggling with complex obesity. As her practice grew she expanded her services and became board certified in obesity medicine and received several certifications in neuroscience, functional medicine and genetics. She has now combined all of these approaches into her trademarked program, NeuroSwitch Weight Loss™ , which uses a brain-based and genetic approach as its foundation. This program helps to create new neural pathways in the brain and personalizes the journey based on obesity phenotypes so success can be permanent because it not only addresses the disease but also the root cause and methods to prevent it from recurring.
She is the author of two books, And the Best Diet is… as well as Transformation is a Mindset, and frequently lectures with other thought leaders in the cardiometabolic space on the clinical application of integrating neuroscience and genetics in the treatment of obesity and bariatrics.
In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, boating, traveling to beach destinations, and watching her children’s sports games.
Dr. Franchell Hamilton’s years of higher education started at the University of Houston Honors College, where she received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Chemistry, summa cum laude. She further pursued her education in Lyon, France, where she completed graduate studies in biochemical engineering. And so, she continued her education at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio to earn her doctorate in medicine. She then attended Eastern Virginia Medical School to complete her residency, and ultimately her fellowship at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. After completing her bariatric fellowship, Dr. Hamilton went to work helping patients afflicted by their struggles with obesity. She founded A Better Weigh Center – a place for her patients to receive treatments ranging from bariatric surgery and medical weight loss to other cardio-metabolic diseases without judgment. As her practice grew, she began seeing more and more patients, but many had the same recurring issue – weight regain with return of their other medical conditions.
Dr. Hamilton was not in the business of short-term fixes. She wanted to provide results with longevity. Thus, the NeuroSwitch Weight Loss™ Institute was founded – Dr. Hamilton’s weight loss (better health) system reaches communities where they are and has changed the practice of medicine. In addressing the neuroscience behind weight regain, Dr. Hamilton was able to better provide a treatment plan for each patient that not only addresses their disease but also the root cause and methods to prevent it from recurring. She reinforced her new treatment methodology with countless hours spent researching and having difficult conversations with each patient until the method was perfected. Soon, she saw lasting results in her patients, eventually reaching thousands of lives changed.
She now also trains other providers using the NeuroSwitch Weight Loss™ program and how to implement it in their practice. She uses her book, Transformation is a Mind-Set, The Journey to Changing your Input and your World, as a guide to help thousands struggling with unhealthy strongholds in their life find the root of the problem. In her book, she then teaches how to change the brain and overcome.

