Michael Roizen
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Dr. Michael Fredric Roizen (born January 7, 1946) is an American
anesthesiologist
and internist, an award-winning author and the chief wellness
officer at the Cleveland Clinic
. He completed a tour of duty in the Public Health Service and has 165 peer reviewed publications and 100 medical chapters, 14 US patents, started six companies, served on Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) advisory committees for 16 years, and chaired an FDA advisory committee. He also co-invented a drug, Methylnaltrexone
(MTNX, trade name Relistor), and took it through phase 2 trials. In May 2008 Methylnaltrexone received FDA approval for marketing in the United States (he has sold his rights to that drug).
He became famous for developing the Real Age concept and has authored or coauthored five number one New York Times best sellers, including Real Age and four in the YOU series—those with Dr. Mehmet Oz
.
He has been praised for encouraging Americans to exercise and live healthier lives - and has been an outspoken critic of politicians who use health funds for other purposes - particularly for taking tobacco settlement money and using it for unintended purposes. Besides advocating for a healthier lifestyle today, Roizen has speculated that by 2023 one of the 14 areas of aging might have a breakthrough that will allow us to live until 160 with the same quality of life as at age 45. This speculation has been met with both criticism as well as agreement.
Roizen has also been criticized for what has been called his wild exaggerations about the potential payoffs of exercise and healthy eating.
degree from Williams College
in 1967 with a double major in Chemistry
and Economics
. Subsequently, he attended the University of California
, San Francisco, School of Medicine. His residency was at Harvard's
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
. After 9 years on the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco, he was the chair of the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care and Pain Management at the University of Chicago
for 16 years. He then became dean of the School of Medicine and vice president for Biomedical Sciences at SUNY Upstate.
He co-founded RealAge
, a service providing personal health tools to consumers, and is chairman of the RealAge Scientific Advisory Board. He became the Cleveland Clinic’s chief wellness officer and chairman of the Clinic’s Division of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, and Comprehensive Pain Management in 2004 and was named chief wellness officer and chair of the Wellness Institute in 2007.
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 709 ex-smokers, and over 100 Fortune 500 CEOs and CFOs. He chaired the United Way Fund Raising effort at the Cleveland Clinic in 2006 (it achieved record results, including over a 15% increase in donations to become one of the top 3 healthcare organizations in United Way Donations), and has served on the boards of five non-profit foundations. Roizen serves on the Advisory Board of HealthCorps
. 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 and then America’s Top Doctors (the successor book) since 1989.
Roizen and his wife, Nancy—a developmental pediatrician—live in Cleveland, Ohio. The Roizens have two children: Jenny, a Williams graduate and PhD graduate student at California Institute of Technology (she plans to start a Post Doc at Stanford in 2010), and Jeffrey, MD/PhD, received his double doctorates from Washington University in 2008, and started a residency in Pediatrics at Philadelphia’s Children’s Hospital.
"The RealAge(R) Diet: Make Yourself Younger with What You Eat" and “Cooking the RealAge Way: Turn Back Your Biological Clock with More than 80 Delicious and Easy Recipes”
He has also coauthored, with Dr. Mehmet Oz
, YOU: The Owner’s Manual: An Insider’s Guide to the Body That Will Make You Healthier and Younger, which was listed on The New York Times Bestseller List. He has also authored four New York Times number one bestsellers with Dr. Oz, "YOU: The owners manual" "YOU on a diet" and "YOU staying young", as well as the number two bestseller "YOU:The Smart Patient" also coauthored with the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations.
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 the Oprah Winfrey Show 18 times, the Today Show 17 times, 20/20 3 times, CBN
, CNN
, CBS
, Good Morning America
26 times, The Montel Williams Show
, and PBS (three fundraising specials that have been substantially successful at raising money for PBS). He also chaired the Cleveland Clinic United Way fundraising drive in 2006 in which the Cleveland Clinic was in the top three donors in health care organizations to the United Way.
He was featured in magazines including Fortune, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Ladies’ Home Journal, Reader’s Digest, Men’s Health, and Prevention magazines. and biography. He and Dr. Oz coauthor a daily newspaper column syndicated through over 65 newspapers in the United States and Canada.
started in 1985 when Roizen convinced a 47-year-old entrepreneur to take his blood-pressure medication by explaining he was living with the body of a 52-year-old by not doing so. The entrepreneur paid for Roizen to assemble a five-person research team and come up with similar numbers for other controllable factors that affect length and/or quality of life.
The first RealAge test debuted online in 1998.
Among his initiatives are starting a farmer's market near the clinic’s main campus, mentoring children in the public schools, and starting smoking cessation and weight-loss programs. He has also encouraged an expansive walking-focused health program that includes a walking program co-sponsored by Google.
He’s used also used his position at the Cleveland Clinic as a bully pulpit from which to advocate for what he sees as more effective uses of tobacco settlement funds. He criticized the Ohio government – and specifically denounced Gov. Ted Strickland
as "stupid" when the state decided to take control of $230 million that had been designated for anti-tobacco programs.
United States
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anesthesiologist
Anesthesiologist
An anesthesiologist or anaesthetist is a physician trained in anesthesia and peri-operative medicine....
and internist, an award-winning author and the chief wellness
Quality of life
The term quality of life is used to evaluate the general well-being of individuals and societies. The term is used in a wide range of contexts, including the fields of international development, healthcare, and politics. Quality of life should not be confused with the concept of standard of...
officer at the Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland Clinic
The Cleveland Clinic is a multispecialty academic medical center located in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The Cleveland Clinic is currently regarded as one of the top 4 hospitals in the United States as rated by U.S. News & World Report...
. He completed a tour of duty in the Public Health Service and has 165 peer reviewed publications and 100 medical chapters, 14 US patents, started six companies, served on Food and Drug Administration
Food and Drug Administration
The Food and Drug Administration is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments...
(FDA) advisory committees for 16 years, and chaired an FDA advisory committee. He also co-invented a drug, Methylnaltrexone
Methylnaltrexone
Methylnaltrexone is one of the newer agents of peripherally-acting μ-opioid antagonists that act to reverse some of the side effects of opioid drugs such as constipation without affecting analgesia or precipitating withdrawals...
(MTNX, trade name Relistor), and took it through phase 2 trials. In May 2008 Methylnaltrexone received FDA approval for marketing in the United States (he has sold his rights to that drug).
He became famous for developing the Real Age concept and has authored or coauthored five number one New York Times best sellers, including Real Age and four in the YOU series—those with Dr. Mehmet Oz
Mehmet Oz
Mehmet Cengiz Oz , also known as Dr. Oz, is a Turkish-American cardiothoracic surgeon, author, talk show host, and commentator for The Dr. Oz Show, a daily television program focusing on medical issues/personal health....
.
He has been praised for encouraging Americans to exercise and live healthier lives - and has been an outspoken critic of politicians who use health funds for other purposes - particularly for taking tobacco settlement money and using it for unintended purposes. Besides advocating for a healthier lifestyle today, Roizen has speculated that by 2023 one of the 14 areas of aging might have a breakthrough that will allow us to live until 160 with the same quality of life as at age 45. This speculation has been met with both criticism as well as agreement.
Roizen has also been criticized for what has been called his wild exaggerations about the potential payoffs of exercise and healthy eating.
Biography
He received a Bachelor of ArtsBachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
degree from Williams College
Williams College
Williams College is a private liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. It was established in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams. Originally a men's college, Williams became co-educational in 1970. Fraternities were also phased out during this...
in 1967 with a double major in Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
and Economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
. Subsequently, he attended the University of California
University of California
The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
, San Francisco, School of Medicine. His residency was at Harvard's
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts is a major flagship teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. It was formed out of the 1996 merger of Beth Israel Hospital and New England Deaconess Hospital...
. After 9 years on the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco, he was the chair of the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care and Pain Management at the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
for 16 years. He then became dean of the School of Medicine and vice president for Biomedical Sciences at SUNY Upstate.
He co-founded RealAge
RealAge
RealAge, Inc. is an American media corporation that provides health information to consumers. The company’s stated mission is to encourage consumers to maximize their health and wellness by making their "RealAge" younger. It was founded by Michael Roizen, currently the chief wellness officer at The...
, a service providing personal health tools to consumers, and is chairman of the RealAge Scientific Advisory Board. He became the Cleveland Clinic’s chief wellness officer and chairman of the Clinic’s Division of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, and Comprehensive Pain Management in 2004 and was named chief wellness officer and chair of the Wellness Institute in 2007.
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 709 ex-smokers, and over 100 Fortune 500 CEOs and CFOs. He chaired the United Way Fund Raising effort at the Cleveland Clinic in 2006 (it achieved record results, including over a 15% increase in donations to become one of the top 3 healthcare organizations in United Way Donations), and has served on the boards of five non-profit foundations. Roizen serves on the Advisory Board of HealthCorps
HealthCorps
HealthCorps is an American non-profit organization that responds to the obesity crisis through school-based health education and peer-mentoring in addition to community outreach to underserved populations – mostly Hispanic and African-American....
. 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 and then America’s Top Doctors (the successor book) since 1989.
Roizen and his wife, Nancy—a developmental pediatrician—live in Cleveland, Ohio. The Roizens have two children: Jenny, a Williams graduate and PhD graduate student at California Institute of Technology (she plans to start a Post Doc at Stanford in 2010), and Jeffrey, MD/PhD, received his double doctorates from Washington University in 2008, and started a residency in Pediatrics at Philadelphia’s Children’s Hospital.
Author, speaker, celebrity
Roizen is the author of the award-winning series of “RealAge” books, including: “RealAge: Are You as Young as You Can Be?” “The RealAge Makeover: Take Years off Your Looks and Add Them to Your Life;” “The RealAge(R) Workout: Maximum Health, Minimum Work;” and has coauthored, with Dr. John La PumaJohn La Puma
John La Puma is an Italian-American internist, professionally trained chef and author.La Puma was born in New York, received his undergraduate degree from the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, earned an MD from Baylor College of Medicine and trained in...
"The RealAge(R) Diet: Make Yourself Younger with What You Eat" and “Cooking the RealAge Way: Turn Back Your Biological Clock with More than 80 Delicious and Easy Recipes”
He has also coauthored, with Dr. Mehmet Oz
Mehmet Oz
Mehmet Cengiz Oz , also known as Dr. Oz, is a Turkish-American cardiothoracic surgeon, author, talk show host, and commentator for The Dr. Oz Show, a daily television program focusing on medical issues/personal health....
, YOU: The Owner’s Manual: An Insider’s Guide to the Body That Will Make You Healthier and Younger, which was listed on The New York Times Bestseller List. He has also authored four New York Times number one bestsellers with Dr. Oz, "YOU: The owners manual" "YOU on a diet" and "YOU staying young", as well as the number two bestseller "YOU:The Smart Patient" also coauthored with the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations.
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 the Oprah Winfrey Show 18 times, the Today Show 17 times, 20/20 3 times, CBN
Christian Broadcasting Network
The Christian Broadcasting Network, or CBN, is a fundamentalist Christian television broadcasting network in the United States. Its headquarters and main studios are in Virginia Beach, Virginia.-Background:...
, CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
, CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
, Good Morning America
Good Morning America
Good Morning America is an American morning news and talk show that is broadcast on the ABC television network; it debuted on November 3, 1975. The weekday program airs for two hours; a third hour aired between 2007 and 2008 exclusively on ABC News Now...
26 times, The Montel Williams Show
The Montel Williams Show
The Montel Williams Show is a syndicated talk show hosted by Montel Williams. On January 30, 2008 it was announced that The Montel Williams Show would stop production on new episodes at the end of the 2007-2008 television season after seventeen years...
, and PBS (three fundraising specials that have been substantially successful at raising money for PBS). He also chaired the Cleveland Clinic United Way fundraising drive in 2006 in which the Cleveland Clinic was in the top three donors in health care organizations to the United Way.
He was featured in magazines including Fortune, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Ladies’ Home Journal, Reader’s Digest, Men’s Health, and Prevention magazines. and biography. He and Dr. Oz coauthor a daily newspaper column syndicated through over 65 newspapers in the United States and Canada.
Real Age
The idea for RealAgeRealAge
RealAge, Inc. is an American media corporation that provides health information to consumers. The company’s stated mission is to encourage consumers to maximize their health and wellness by making their "RealAge" younger. It was founded by Michael Roizen, currently the chief wellness officer at The...
started in 1985 when Roizen convinced a 47-year-old entrepreneur to take his blood-pressure medication by explaining he was living with the body of a 52-year-old by not doing so. The entrepreneur paid for Roizen to assemble a five-person research team and come up with similar numbers for other controllable factors that affect length and/or quality of life.
The first RealAge test debuted online in 1998.
Cleveland Clinic
Michael Roizen became the Cleveland Clinic’s chief wellness officer in mid-2007. The position was new for the clinic and was notable, as it made Roizen one of the top 12 executives within the health system. He is also a professor of medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine.Among his initiatives are starting a farmer's market near the clinic’s main campus, mentoring children in the public schools, and starting smoking cessation and weight-loss programs. He has also encouraged an expansive walking-focused health program that includes a walking program co-sponsored by Google.
He’s used also used his position at the Cleveland Clinic as a bully pulpit from which to advocate for what he sees as more effective uses of tobacco settlement funds. He criticized the Ohio government – and specifically denounced Gov. Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland
Theodore "Ted" Strickland was the 68th Governor of Ohio, serving from 2007 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served in the United States House of Representatives, representing ....
as "stupid" when the state decided to take control of $230 million that had been designated for anti-tobacco programs.
Books and publications
- RealAge: Are You as Young as You Can Be? by Michael F. Roizen, 2001, ISBN 0060930756.
- Cooking the RealAge Way: Turn Back Your Biological Clock with More than 80 Delicious and Easy Recipes, by Michael F. Roizen, John La Puma, 2003, ISBN 0060009357.
- The RealAge Makeover: Take Years off Your Looks and Add Them to Your Life, by Michael F. Roizen, 2004, ISBN 0060196823.
- The RealAge Workout: Maximum Health, Minimum Work, by Michael F. Roizen, Tracy Hafen, 2006, ISBN 0060009373.
- YOU: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty, by Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet Oz, 2007, ISBN 0743292561.
- YOU: On A Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management, by Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet Oz, 2006, ISBN 0743292545.
- YOU: The Smart Patient: An Insider's Handbook for Getting the Best Treatment, by Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet Oz, 2006, ISBN 0743293010.
- YOU: The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger, by Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet Oz, 2005, ISBN 0060765313.
- Essence of Anesthesia Practice, by Michael F. Roizen, Lee A. Fleisher, 1997, ISBN 9780721659725.
- Essence of Anesthesia Practice, by Michael F. Roizen, Lee A. Fleisher, 2002, ISBN 9780721692678.
- Essence of Anesthesia Practice, by Michael F. Roizen, Lee A. Fleisher, 2011, ISBN 9781437717204.
External links
- About Real Age – Dr. Roizen
- Michael Roizen (Cleveland Clinic)
- Health and fitness news and medical news about Michael Roizen (The Plain Dealer)
- Dr. Roizen at Sharecare