Michael Roizen, MD

Chief Wellness Officer; Chair, Wellness Institute Cleveland Clinic

  • Cleveland OH

Reveals how to stay fit, the right way to diet, and how to control your genes, choose the right supplements and keep the brain healthy

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Biography

Michael F. Roizen, MD, has founded or cofounded 12 companies, and four of the seven that have reached conclusions have been successfully sold. He is currently Chief Wellness Officer and Chair of the Wellness Institute at Cleveland Clinic. 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 Public Health Service at the National Institutes of Health in the laboratory of Irv Kopin and Nobel Prize winner Julius Axelrod.

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 more than 170 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 100 textbook chapters, 30 editorials, and four medical books (one, a medical best-seller), and received 13 U.S. and many foreign patents.

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, he accepted a position as Chair of the Anesthesiology Institute at Cleveland Clinic, responsible for over 180 operatories, 124 critical care beds and 28 pain therapy intervention units. In 2007, Dr. Roizen was named Chief Wellness Officer at Cleveland Clinic, the first such position in a major healthcare institution in the United States. Dr. Roizen also serves as Joseph T. Gorman and Family Chairman of the Wellness Institute at Cleveland Clinic.

Dr. Roizen still practices internal medicine. The Wellness Institute that he chairs aims to elevate preventive care and wellness as a core brand of Cleveland Clinic and a core value they teach their patients, employees and communities.

Industry Expertise

Health and Wellness
Health Care - Services
Health Care - Providers
Health Care - Facilities

Areas of Expertise

Caregiver Stress
Top 12 Things You Can Do for Your Health
Economics of Prevention
Disease Reversal
The Cleveland Clinic Experience in Bending the Cost Curve: How Social Media Has Buttressed Other Technologies
Changing Health

Education

University of California, San Francisco - School of Medicine

MD

Internal Medicine, Anesthesiology

1971

Williams College

AB

Chemistry, Economics

1967

Affiliations

  • University of California
  • Williams College
  • The Dr. Oz Show
  • Cleveland Clinic

Testimonials

Marketing Manager / US Health & Life Sciences Group

http://www.microsoft.com/health/en-us/solutions/Pages/life-sciences.aspx

Microsoft Corporation

"Dr. Roizen’s presentation… was the highlight of the event and the attendees raved about his session."

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The McDougall Program

"It was such a pleasure to have Dr. Roizen at this past McDougall Advanced Study Weekend. His presentation was both educational and entertaining. I know that the audience enjoyed him immensely."

DMD, MS

http://www.americanboardortho.com/

American Board of Orthodontics

"Dr. Roizen was, of course, a fantastic speaker."

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Event Appearances

New Ideas in Nutrition

Food for Your Whole Life  NY, NY

Real Age and YOU - How to Keep Yourself and Your Hospital Younger

SSARC  India

Smart Tots: Mitigating Anaesthesia Related Neurotoxicity in Tots

SSARC  India

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Sample Talks

Cleveland Clinic Experience with Wellness

Dr. Roizen shares how Cleveland Clinic went from a “sick care” organization to a true “healthcare” organization by implementing myriad wellness programs for patients and employees alike. He discusses the Cleveland Clinic experience with wellness including the economics of disease prevention and caregiver stress.

Top 12 Things You Can Do For Your Health

Dr. Roizen discusses the top 12 things you can do for your health as well as how to eat for health, how to control your genes, the right way to diet, your top choices for keeping brain function, how to choose the right supplements, what the minimum physical activity is for maximum health, how to manage stress and how disease can be reversed with certain lifestyle changes. He also discusses the Cleveland Clinic experience with wellness including the economics of disease prevention.

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Availability

  • Keynote
  • Moderator
  • Panelist
  • Author Appearance
  • Corporate Training

Fees

$0 to $48000
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