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DR. MICHAEL ROIZEN
FOUNDER AND CHAIR OF THE SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD OF REALAGE, INC.
Dr. Roizen is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Williams College and Alpha Omega Alpha graduate of the University of California, San Francisco, medical school. He performed his residency in internal medicine at Harvard’s Beth Israel Hospital and completed a tour of duty in the 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 Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Anesthesiology. He is 59 calendar years of age, but lives his RealAge paradigm and has a RealAge of 41.2.
Dr. Roizen is past chair of a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee, has been an editor or associate editor for six medical journals, has published more than 155 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 100 textbook chapters, 30 editorials, and four medical books (one a ‘medical’ best-seller, translated into 13 languages), and been issued 12 US and several foreign patents. After nine years on the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco, he started and was medical director of the Chicago Program for Executive Health and 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 a tour as CEO of The Biotechnology Research Corporation of Central New York, he accepted a position as Chair of the Division of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, and Pain Management at the Cleveland Clinic. He currently is responsible for 199 operating rooms, 124 critical care beds (44,000 critical care days), and over 100,000 pain therapy visits along with a department of outcome research. Dr Roizen also developed a program first-launched at Northwestern Memorial Hospital aimed at helping its members reverse biologic aging and live longer, more vibrant lives.
His first lay book is RealAge: Are You As Young As You Can Be? published by Harper-Collins became a New York Times #1 Bestseller, and even displaced Harry Potter from #1 on the Amazon list for several days in July 1999. RealAge was awarded the Books for a Better Life Awards’ Best Wellness Book of 1999, has been translated into 22 languages, and achieved #1 status in four other countries. His second lay book, written with Dr John La Puma , The RealAge Diet: Make Yourself Younger with What You Eat. also became a New York Times Bestseller in April 2001.His third book is Cooking The RealAge Way (Harper Collins) with Dr La Puma and has published an update to the original RealAge book, entitled The RealAge Makeover: Take years off your looks and add them to your life (HarperCollins, April 2004)! His last book was published on May 3, 2005, and is written with Mehmet Oz –called YOU-The Owner’s Manual. It was #1 on the New York Times list for its first 7 weeks in a row, went platinum within 3 weeks (1.3 million copies were printed within the first month), displaced Harry Potter again from BN.com and Amazon.com (7.5 and 10.4 days respectively, but who is counting), and was even favorably reviewed by the New York Times (very rare for a health book). It
Dr. Roizen is the founder and chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of RealAge, Inc., a San Diego–based company, which includes an interactive website located at www.RealAge.com. The site addresses health, and wellness issues, and the RealAge “Tip of the Day” is subscribed to by over 3.5 million people in USA. The RealAge Reality show has been the #1 show for most of the twenty episodes over three years (fall 2003; spring 2004; spring 2005) in Holland, and is scheduled to spread to at least 9 countries in 2005 or spring of 2006. .
Dr Roizen has given over 1200 lectures on medical topics to professional medical groups, and has been recognized with over 20 named professional lectureships. Dr Roizen has appeared on Oprah (five original times prior to June 2005, several additional repeats), the Today show (17 times), 20/20, CBN, CNN (many times), CBS, Good-Morning America (6 times), Canada AM (4 times separately, plus a week of mornings in June, 2005), Montel, PBS, featured in Fortune, Glamour, Cosmo, Good Housekeeping, O, Redbook, RealSimple, Esquire, Men’s Health, Ladies Home Journal, Reader’s Digest, Men’s Health, Prevention etc.
He continues to practice both anesthesiology and internal medicine and uses the RealAge metric to motivate his patients. Dr Roizen has personally delivered medical care to 8 Nobel prize winners, 340 ex-smokers (due to Dr. Roizen’s work), over 100 Fortune 500 CEO’s or CFO’s, and numerous just plain folks. He has been continually listed since 1989 in the Best Doctors in America reference. He is an avid squash player. His wife is a developmental pediatrician also listed in the Best Doctors in America. The Roizen’s have two children, Jenny, a PhD graduate student at Caltech in Organic Chemistry, and Jeffrey, an MD/PhD student at Washington University in St Louis.
