Mehmet C. Oz, MD, member of the RealAge Scientific Advisory Board, coauthored with RealAge expert Dr. Roizen the New York Times #1 best-sellers YOU: The Smart Patient (2006) and YOU: The Owner's Manual (2005). He has authored more than 350 original Publications, book chapters, abstracts, and books and has received several patents. Dr. Oz is professor and vice-chairman of surgery, Columbia University. He is medical director of the Integrated Medicine Center and director of the Heart Institute at New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. His research interests include heart replacement surgery, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, and healthcare policy.

Dr. Oz received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University (1982) and obtained a joint MD and MBA (1986) from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Wharton Business School. He was awarded the Captain’s Athletic Award for leadership in college and was president of the student body during medical school.

Memberships include the American Board of Thoracic Surgery, American Board of Surgery, American Association of Thoracic Surgeons, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, American College of Surgeons, International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, American College of Cardiology, and American Society for Artificial Internal Organs.

Awards include election as a Global Leader for Tomorrow (1999) by the World Economic Forum; the prestigious American Association for Thoracic Surgery Robert E. Gross Research Scholarship (1994-6); the Blakemore Prize for research (1988, 1989, 1990, 1991) from the College of Physician & Surgeons, Columbia University; the research award from the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (1991); and the clinical research award and grant from the New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Medical Center (1993). He was voted Turkish-American of the Year in 1996 and was elected one of the Doctors of the Year by Hippocrates magazine and Healers of the Millennium by Healthy Living. His book, Healing from the Heart, won the prestigious “Books for a Better America” award (1999) and Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery was elected as a Best Health Science Book by Doody’s Review Journal (2000).

Dr. Oz has appeared numerous times on the NBC Evening News with Tom Brokaw, ABC Evening News with Peter Jennings, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, 48 Hours, Turning Point, Dateline, Good Morning America, the Today Show, CNN, the McNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, Discovery, PBS, the Oprah Winfrey Show, and more than two dozen other shows.

He has been featured in lead stories in the New York Times Magazine, Fortune, Life, Self, Good Housekeeping, Elle, W, Interview, New York Magazine, Men’s Journal, Heart & Soul, and Reader’s Digest. He has also appeared in Sports Illustrated, People, Psychology Today, Stern, El Mundo, and numerous other international Publications.