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Healthcare Michael F. Roizen, M.D. is not only a world-renowned physician, but also a fabulous presenter on stage. For that reason, he is in high demand as a speaker. It is not uncommon for him to receive five invitations a week to speak. His RealAge topic is on how to stave off the aging processes so you look and feel younger. The subtitle of his RealAge Makeover book was "Take years off your age and add them to your life." His ability to keep the audience totally engaged means that listeners stay captivated from start to finish. He has six New York Times best sellers, and he has made numerous appearances on television and radio as well as being in almost all the major magazines in the nation. Dr. Roizen has given over 1,200 lectures to professional medical groups and has been recognized with over 20 professional lectureships. He has appeared on Oprah over 10 times, The Today Show over 17 times, 20/20, Good Morning America, Larry King Live, Charlie Rose, Discovery Channel, and many other shows numerous times. He has also been featured in almost every major magazine in the nation including Fortune, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, Reader's Digest, Men's Health, Prevention, etc. He has been on the cover of most of these magazines. He also has a weekly radio show. Dr. Roizen is currently the Chief Wellness Officer of the Cleveland Clinic and Chair Designate of the upcoming Wellness Center at the Cleveland Clinic. He has personally delivered medical care to 8 Nobel Prize winners, 340 ex-smokers, over 100 Fortune 500 CEOs and CFOs, and countless others. He has been in the Best Doctors in America since 1989. His wife is a developmental pediatrician and is also listed in the Best Doctors in America. Dr. Roizen's first lay book was RealAge: Are You As Young As You Can Be? It was published by Harper-Collins, was a New York Times #1 Bestseller, and even knocked Harry Potter off the number one spot. RealAge was awarded the Books for a Better Life Awards' Best Wellness Book of 1999 and has been translated into 22 languages, and achieved #1 status in four other countries. Dr. Roizen's second book, written with John La Puma, M.D., The RealAge Diet: Make Yourself Younger with What You Eat also became a New York Times Bestseller in April 2001. He has published a third book, Cooking The RealAge Way (Harper Collins) with Dr. La Puma, and his fourth book was The RealAge Makeover, a third New York Times bestseller. In May 2005 came You the Owner's Manualwritten with Mehmet Oz. M.D. and it topped the number one spot on Amazon and Barnes and Noble and was the first book to topple Harry Potter in five months. This book is now so successful that it has gone Platinum with over 2 million copies in print. It has ended up being the top seller of 2005 except for Harry Potter. Dr. Roizen's next book, YOU: The Smart Patient written with Dr. Oz, was released in February 2006 and is available in bookstores everywhere. It has reached The New York Times bestseller list also giving Dr. Roizen a fifth New York Times bestseller. In October 2006 Dr. Roizen and Dr. Mehmet Oz released Dr. Roizen's sixth New York Times best seller, YOU: ON A Diet. Their appearance on Oprah, following the release of that book, was one of Oprah's highest rated shows. It has sold over 8 million copies, and that is phenomenal since it only takes 100,000 copies to be a best seller. In October 2007 Dr. Roizen and Dr. Oz released YOU: Staying Young and it also hit the top of the charts after numerous TV appearances and magazine features. Dr. Roizen is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Williams College and Alpha Omega Alpha graduate of the University of California, San Francisco, and 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 58 years of age, but he lives his RealAge paradigm and therefore has a RealAge of 40.6 years of age. 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). He has also been issued 12 US patents and several foreign patents. After nine years on the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Roizen started and was medical director of the Chicago Program for Executive Health. He also 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 University. Currently he is at the Cleveland Clinic as Chairman of the Division of Anesthesiology. 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 1.9 million people in USA. This site was purchased by Hearst publications in 2007.
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