ABOUT DR. MEHMET OZ
Mehmet Oz, M.D., a cardiothoracic surgeon, has won eight Daytime Emmy
Awards for The Dr. Oz Show. A professor of surgery at Columbia University, he
directs the Complementary Medicine Program at NewYork–Presbyterian
Hospital and performs more than fifty heart operations a year. In addition to
Food Can Fix It, Dr. Oz has written seven New York Times bestselling books,
including YOU: The Owner’s Manual, YOU: The Smart Patient, YOU: On a
Diet, YOU: Staying Young, and the award-winning Healing from the Heart.
He hosts the internationally syndicated Daily Dose in numerous radio
markets, syndicated through iHeartRadio, and his newspaper column is
syndicated by Hearst in 175 markets around the world. He is the cofounder of
Share-care.com and its app AskMD, which won the Best Medical App award in
- Dr. Oz also has a regular column in O, The OprahMagazine.
Dr. Oz belongs to every major professional society for heart surgeons and has
been named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People, Forbes’ most
influential celebrity, Esquire magazine’s 75 Most Influential People of the 21st
Century, a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum,
Harvard’s 100 Most Influential Alumni, as well as receiving the Ellis Island
Medal of Honor. He won the prestigious Gross Surgical Research Scholarship,
and he has received an honorary doctorate from Istanbul University. Dr. Oz has
been elected annually as a highest-quality physician by the Castle Connolly
guide as well as other major ranking groups. He is also an honorary police
surgeon for New York City. He lives in northern New Jersey with his wife of
thirty-two years, Lisa; they have four children and two grandchildren.