Dr. Michael Roizen
Michael F. Roizen, M.D., is the Co-Founder of RealAge Inc. and creator of the RealAge concept sitting as Chairman of the RealAge Scientific Advisory Board. He 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 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. Dr. Roizen is 60 calendar years of age, but his RealAge is 41.2.
Dr. Roizen is past chairman of a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee and a former editor for six medical journals. He has published more than 155 peer-reviewed scientific papers, one-hundred textbook chapters, thirty editorials, and four medical books, including a medical Best-seller. He has also received twelve U.S. patents and several foreign patents.
After nine years on the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco, he started and served as 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 at the School of Medicine, and Vice President for Biomedical Sciences at SUNY Upstate and served as CEO of the Biotechnology Research Corporation of Central New York. In June 2005, he joined Cleveland Clinic as Chairman of the Division of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, and Comprehensive Pain Management.
His first general audience book, RealAge: Are You as Young as You Can Be? (HarperCollins Publishers) became a New York Times #1 Best-seller and was awarded the Best Wellness Book of 1999 by the Books for a Better Life Awards. This book has been translated into more than 20 languages and was #1 in four other countries. His follow-up, The RealAge Diet: Make Yourself Younger with What You Eat (HarperCollins), co-authored with Dr. John La Puma, also became a New York Times Best-seller in April 2001. His third book was Cooking the RealAge Way (Harper Collins), also with Dr. La Puma, and he published an update to the initial RealAge book, The RealAge Makeover (HarperCollins) in 2004. His most recent books are The RealAge Workout (Collins), YOU: The Smart Patient (Free Press) and YOU: The Owner’s Manual (Collins), the latter two written with Dr. Mehmet Oz.
YOU: The Owner’s Manual is also a New York Times best-selling book and according to Amazon was the second best selling book (behind Harry Potter) for the year of 2005. It is available in 29 languages, and the official website for the “YOU” book series is hosted at RealAge.com.
Dr. Roizen has given over 1,200 lectures to professional medical groups and has been recognized with over 20 professional lectureships. He has made several media appearances as a medical expert appearing on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, 20/20, CNN, CBS, Good Morning America, PBS, and more. He has also been featured in consumer magazines including Fortune, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Ladies’ Home Journal, Reader’s Digest, Men’s Health, and Prevention among others.
Dr. Roizen still practices anesthesiology and internal medicine using the RealAge metric to motivate his patients. He has personally delivered medical care to eight Nobel Prize winners, 340 ex-smokers, over one-hundred Fortune 500 CEOs and CFOs, and countless others. He has been in the Best Doctors in America since 1989. Dr. Roizen’s wife is a developmental pediatrician also listed in the Best Doctors in America. The Roizen’s 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.
MOST REQUESTED TOPIC:
The RealAge Program
Adapted from Dr. Roizen’s three New York Times best selling books. RealAge has been translated into 22 languages and his website is the second largest medical web page in the world with 1.4 million hits per day. Each program can be customized to include the following:
- Your real age versus your calendar age and why you should care
- The steps to take in order to control your genes and delay aging
- Seven natural ways to lower blood pressure
- Discover the most important and powerful anti-aging agent for men and women over 50.
- Six ways to lower your lousy LDL cholesterol and four ways to increase your healthy HDL cholesterol without drugs
- How to make your immune system function well regardless of your age
- Ideas to adopt that will increase your energy, alertness, and vitality
- How to prevent or stop the progression of arthritis and osteoporosis – two of the biggest health concerns for women and older men
- Scientific studies that give insight into the aging process and how to ward off disease
- Why certain vitamin supplements should be part of your daily health regime versus what Madison Avenue tells us
- Secrets to success in weight loss – the biggest challenge of the millennium!
- Three types of exercise to make your RealAge younger
- How to manage stress in all aspects of your life
- …. and more!
These programs are available as a half day, full day, or as a keynote speech. Weekend retreats and longer programs are also offered.
