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Michael F. Roizen
Dr. Michael F. Roizen is a 53-year old internist and
anesthesiologist who lives his Age Reduction plan and has a
RealAge of 38. He has been continuously listed for the last
nine years as one of the 1,000 Best Doctors in the United
States. He is a Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude graduate
of Williams College (Williamstown, Massachusetts), and an
Alpha Omega graduate of the University of California
Medical School in San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Roizen
completed a residency in internal medicine at Harvard's
Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, a tour of
duty in the Yellow Beret of the Public Health Service at
The National Institutes of Health in the lab of Irv Kopin
and Nobel Prize Winner Julius Axelrod and an anesthesiology
residency at UCSF.
In 1977, Michael Roizen was appointed to the faculty at
UCSF in internal medicine, pharmacology and anesthesia and
served as co-chief of the cardiovascular anesthesia
services at UCSF before he was recruited to Chicago as
Professor of Medicine and Professor and Chair of the
Department of Anesthesia & Critical Care, Pritzker School
of Medicine, University of Chicago. In the last twelve
years, Dr. Roizen has lead that department to become one of
the top 10 departments in the world.
Michael Roizen continues to practice internal medicine and
uses the RealAge measurement routinely to motivate patients
in both his medical and preoperative practices to healthier
behaviors. He has provided medical care to numerous CEOs, 7
Nobel Prize winners, and many others. Dr. Roizen has
received numerous awards, including over 10 named
lectureships or professorships, on over 5 continents.
Michael Roizen is the immediate past President of the
Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, currently
chairs an FDA advisory committee, is an editor or associate
editor of 6 medical journals, has edited the University of
Chicago's Better Health Newsletter, a top ranked squash
player, and is married to another physician listed as one
of the 1,000 best physicians in the Midwest, Dr. Nancy
Roizen.
Dr. Roizen has given lectures to medical groups in over 47
states and 18 foreign countries. He regularly teaches in
the University of Chicago program that provides medical
school training to lay audiences (MINI-MED), and has
recently served as "Dean" of that program.
Michael Roizen has published over 120 peer-reviewed
scientific papers, 100 chapters, 25 editorials, 2 books
(one of which is a "Medical Best Seller"). His work is
quoted in Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, the New York
Post, and he has been interviewed on CBS, NBC, The Fox
Network, and CNN about various medical topics, including
estrogen or hormone replacement therapy, DHEA, and the
value of strength training in reducing your RealAge.