Lowcountry Wellness Center

Metabolic Medical Center is a weight management practice with offices in Mount Pleasant, Charleston, Murrells Inlet, Columbia, and Bluffton, South Carolina. Meridith Womick, MD, and the team of weight-loss physicians and wellness coaches provide carefully designed, personally tailored weight-loss programs for teens and adults.The weight management center guides, motivates, and educates patients so they can achieve lasting weight loss and live a healthier and happier lifestyle. Metabolic Medical Center offers different programs to help their patients reach their goals, including accelerated medical weight loss, whole foods weight loss, and metabolic weight loss.The team uses various tools to support patients on their weight-loss journey, including meal replacement programs, weight-loss medications like semaglutide, and vitamin B12 injections. They also provide health coaching and personal training, helping patients develop habits that lead to long-term success with weight loss.At Metabolic Medical Center, patients come first. The team works hard to create a motivating environment focusing on education and improvement. They combine the medical model with lifestyle management to treat obesity so their patients get the best outcomes.Metabolic Medical Center values confidence, empathy, professionalism, leadership, innovation, compassion, and excellence. Call the office today or book an appointment online to learn more about their weight management programs.

Dr. Rick Silver is a professor of medicine and pediatrics and has served as director of the Division of Rheumatology and Immunology since 1995. In 2007, he was named distinguished university professor, the highest academic rank bestowed at MUSC. The division has seen remarkable growth in all facets, including extramural research funding, clinical services, and fellowship training during his tenure as division director. Under his direction, the Division of Rheumatology has been consistently ranked among the top 20 programs by U.S. News and World Report.Dr. Silver's research interests center on scleroderma and, in particular, scleroderma lung disease, now a major cause of death among patients with scleroderma. He and his colleagues were the first to utilize bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) to characterize scleroderma lung disease. He played an instrumental role in the design and development of the Scleroderma Lung Study I and II. Dr. Silver helped to initiate and develop MUSC’s pulmonary hypertension center and sarcoidosis center. Dr. Silver serves as associate director of a multidisciplinary clinical research center (MCRC) for the study of rheumatic diseases in African-Americans funded by NIAMS. Dr. Silver’s clinical interests include scleroderma and scleroderma-related conditions, as well as childhood rheumatic diseases. MUSC Health is one of the world’s leaders in clinical care and investigation of systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) and scleroderma-like conditions, e.g. eosinophilic fasciitis and the eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome. MUSC Health also serves as the state of South Carolina's only referral center for childhood rheumatic diseases. Dr. Silver has led the efforts to coordinate care for children in South Carolina with rheumatic diseases for the past 32 years,FALSE, and he continues to provide clinical care and conduct clinical research with Dr. Tasha Ruth, whose primary appointment is in the Department of Pediatrics.