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author biography
 | Michael F. Roizen, M.D. MICHAEL F. ROIZEN, M.D., is a New York Times #1 bestselling author and cofounder and originator of the very popular RealAge.com website. He is chief wellness officer and chair of the Wellness Institute of the Cleveland Clinic and health expert of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
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Michael F. Roizen, MD, is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Williams College and Alpha Omega Alpha graduate of the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. He performed his residency in internal medicine at Harvard's Beth Israel Hospital and completed Public Health Service at the National Institutes of Health in the laboratory of Irv Kopin and Nobel Prize winner Julius Axelrod. He is certified by both the American Boards of Internal Medicine and of Anesthesiology. Dr Roizen is the cofounder and chair of the RealAge, Inc. Scientific Advisory Board. He is 61 calendar years of age, but his RealAge is 42.3.
Dr. Roizen is a past chair of a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee and a former editor for six medical journals. He has published more than 160 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 100 textbook chapters, 30 editorials, and 4 medical books, (one, a medical Best-seller), and received 13 U.S. and many foreign patents.
After 9 years on the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco, he chaired the top-10-rated department of Anesthesia and Critical Care at the University of Chicago. He then became dean of the School of Medicine and vice president for Biomedical Sciences at SUNY Upstate. After serving as CEO of the Biotechnology Research Corporation of Central New York, he accepted his current position as chair of the Division of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, and Comprehensive Pain Management at the Cleveland Clinic, responsible for over 180 operatories, 124 critical care beds and 28 pain therapy intervention units.
His first general audience book, RealAge: Are You as Young as You Can Be? (HarperCollins Publishers) became a #1 New York Times bestseller and was awarded the Best Wellness Book of 1999 by the Books for a Better Life Awards. RealAge has been translated into more than 20 languages and was #1 in four other countries, displacing Harry Potter for 7 days as #1 on Amazon. Other books include the New York Times bestseller The RealAge Diet: Make Yourself Younger with What You Eat (HarperCollins), written with Dr. John La Puma, Cooking the RealAge Way (Harper Collins), also with Dr. La Puma., and The RealAge Makeover (HarperCollins). His book, YOU: The Owner’s Manual (HarperCollins), written with Health Corps founder Dr. Mehmet Oz, debuted in May 2005 and became a #1 New York Times bestseller (sold more than 2.7 million hardcover copies worldwide; was the #2 best selling book published in 2005 in 2005-- displacing Harry Potter for 35 days as #1 on Amazon & BN.com.). It was followed by the NY Times bestseller YOU: The Smart Patient. Their latest book, YOU: On A Diet, the Owner’s Manual for Waist Management, debuted at #1 on the New York Times list (11 consecutive weeks at #1 and 17 consecutive weeks in top 3 as of now) with 2 1printings totaling over 2.4 million copies in the first three weeks ( it is the #2 best selling book published in 2006 in 2006).
Dr. Roizen has given over 1,400 lectures to professional medical groups and has been recognized with over 20 professional lectureships. He has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show 11 times, Today 17 times, 20/20 (3 times), CBN (14 times), CNN, CBS, Good Morning America (19 times), Canada AM (23 times), The Montel Williams Show, Larry King Live, and has three PBS fundraising specials (his fundraising special The RealAge Makeover was one of the top two PBS special fundraisers in 2006, with over 4000 showings in 100 TV markets). He and Mehmet Oz write a monthly column for Reader’s Digest, and record 1 hour a day of radio for Oprah and Friends, XM channel 156. He also has a 2-hour 33 station Terrestrial show entitled: YOU The Owner’s Manual Radio Show, live every Saturday. He has been featured in Fortune, O, Glamour, Cosmo, Good Housekeeping, Ladies’ Home Journal, Biography, People, US, Men’s Health, & Prevention.
Dr. Roizen still practices anesthesiology and internal medicine, using the RealAge metric to motivate his patients. He has personally delivered medical care to 8 Nobel Prize winners, more than 496 ex-smokers, over 100 Fortune 500 CEOs and CFOs, and countless others. He chaired the United Way Fund Raising effort at the Cleveland Clinic in 2006, and has served on the boards of five non-profit foundations. He served as President of the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists in 1997-8, and has won over 75 trophies in class A squash competition. He has been in the Best Doctors in America since 1989. His wife is a developmental pediatrician also listed in the Best Doctors in America. He and his wife are avid CAVs fans. The Roizens have two children: Jenny, a recent Williams graduate and PhD graduate student at California Institute of Technology, and Jeffrey, an MD/PhD student at Washington University.
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 The RealAge Workout - Michael F. Roizen, M.D.; Hardcover |