Richard B Rothman MD, PhD, Medical Director, BeLite Medical Center

Dr. Rothman is the Medical Director of BeLite Medical Center, which has been helping patients lose weight in the Northern Virginia area since 1996. Board certified in Psychiatry, Dr. Rothman earned his M.D. and Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Virginia in 1982.

From 1982 to 1984, Dr. Rothman was awarded a PRAT Fellowship to conduct postdoctoral research at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. From 1984 to 1988, he completed his Psychiatric Residency at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, D.C., and later at the Laboratory of Clinical Science at the National Institute of Mental Health. From 1991 to 2012, Dr. Rothman served as a Section Chief in the Intramural Research Program at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH, in Baltimore, Maryland. From 2012 to 2024, in addition to serving as Medical Director of BeLite Medical Center, Dr. Rothman worked full-time running inpatient psychiatric units at area hospitals.