Keynote
Michael F. Roizen, MD
Michael F. Roizen, MD, is a graduate of Williams College and 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. 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.
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 hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific
papers, textbook chapters, and editorials, numerous medical books (one, a medical bestseller), and received 13 U.S. and many foreign patents. He is one of the cofounders of the
website RealAge.com (Hearst Corp.), and still chairs its Scientific Advisory Board.
After nine 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, Dr. Roizen accepted a position as Chair of the Anesthesiology Institute at
Cleveland Clinic and in 2007, was named Chief Wellness Officer, the first such position in a
major healthcare institution in the United States. Dr. Roizen also serves as Chairman of
the Wellness Institute at Cleveland Clinic.
Michael F. Roizen, MD
Author, Speaker, Celebrity.
Dr. Roizen’s first general-audience book, RealAge: Are You as Young as You Can Be? became a
#1 New York Times bestseller. Other books include the New York Times bestseller The RealAge
Diet: Make Yourself Younger With What You Eat, written with Dr. John La Puma, Cooking the
RealAge Way, also with Dr. La Puma, and The RealAge Makeover. YOU: The Owner’s Manual,
written with Health Corps founder Dr. Mehmet Oz, debuted in May 2005 and became a #1 New
York Times bestseller, selling more than 2.7 million hardcover copies worldwide. It was followed
by the New York Times bestseller, YOU: The Smart Patient. Their next book, YOU: On A Diet, the
Owner’s Manual for Waist Management, debuted at #1 on the New York Times list. Their latest
book, YOU Staying Young, the Owner’s Manual for Extending Your Warranty also debuted at #1
on the New York Times list, and was listed by People magazine as the #3 selling book in the
world in 2007.
Dr. Roizen has given over 1,400 lectures to professional medical groups and has been recognized with over 20 professional lectureships. He has made appearances on The Oprah Winfrey
Show (13 times), Today Show (17 times), 20/20 (3 times), CBN (15 times), CNN, CBS, Good
Morning America (24 times), Canada AM (28 times), The Montel Williams Show, Larry King
Live, and has four PBS fundraising specials. His most recent two PBS specials: YOU On A Diet,
and Longevity Factors, have both received acclaim. He and Mehmet Oz write a monthly column
for Reader’s Digest, a quarterly column for the nursing magazine, Every Woman, and a daily
newspaper column syndicated by King syndication. He and Dr. Oz also record 1 hour a day of
radio for Oprah and Friends, on satellite radio and a cable network. He also has a 2-hour 26station Terrestrial show entitled: YOU The Owner’s Manual Radio Show, live every Saturday. He
has been featured in Fortune, O, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Ladies’ Home
Journal, Biography, People, US, Men’s Health, and Prevention.
Cleveland Clinic
Dr. Roizen still practices anesthesiology and internal medicine, using the RealAge metric to motivate his patients. He routinely takes patients at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute who
are in the midst of struggling with tobacco, heart, diabetic or arthritic problems and coaches
them with simple lifestyle changes to be able to live, feel, look and be years younger. He really
enjoys getting them to throw away their medications when they no longer need them, but
teaches the role of food and other simple steps in reversing disease processes. The Wellness
Institute that he chairs includes Employee Health and Wellness, the Department of Preventive
Medicine, Premium Access Programs, Disease Reversal and Integrative Medicine Programs, and
the Wellness Public Policy and Community Support Programs of Cleveland Clinic.