All information that carries the RealAge name has been developed by our team of experts, including medical doctors, epidemiologists, and medical writers, who research the latest scientific findings published in peer-reviewed medical and science journals. All RealAge content is held up to stringent scientific review. Meet our scientific advisory board of world-renowned scientists and doctors.
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 ...
Dr. Jen, author of
Good Kids, Bad Habits: The RealAge Guide to Raising Healthy Children, serves as chief pediatric officer for RealAge.com.
A nationally renowned parenting expert and board-certified pediatrician, she has practiced pediatric and adolescent medicine for more than 12 years and maintains a successful private practice in New York City.
She is also a clinical instructor in pediatrics at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and a mother of three young children.
Dr. Trachtenberg has appeared on NBC's
Today show and CNN's
Headline News, among others.
She has published Articles on various health and parenting topics, including child development and childhood obesity.
Dr. Amy Wechsler has a rare combination of skills: She is board certified in both dermatology and psychiatry. As a result, she brings an unusually insightful approach
to the RealAge Scientific Advisory Board and to her dermatology practice in New York City, where she’s known for being as accessible and approachable as she is professional.
Fascinated from the start by the mind-body connection, Dr. Wechsler did her undergraduate work at Duke University and earned an MD from Cornell University Medical College. She
is affiliated with New York–Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and SUNY Downstate Medical Center, and she is a member of the American Academy of Dermatology,
the American Psychiatric Association, and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Wechsler appears frequently on television and in print, including the
Today show, the
New York Times,
Elle, and
O: The Oprah Magazine. She and her husband live in Manhattan, where they’re raising two young children.
Axel Goetz, MD, PhD, is chief science officer of RealAge and is a member of the RealAge Scientific Advisory Board.
Following his medical training and a doctoral program in physiology at the University of Tuebingen in Germany, Dr. Goetz
earned his PhD in experimental psychology of human learning and information processing at Iowa State University. As a faculty member of the
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, he helped develop and evaluate the school's initial curriculum and chaired the Curriculum Self-Study
Committee for the school's accreditation. Dr. Goetz cofounded General Health, Inc., which became the leading company in health risk measurement and management.
Harriet Imrey, PhD, is a senior scientist at RealAge and a member of the RealAge Scientific Advisory Board. She is a
specialist in epidemiology and risk communication, with over two decades of experience in the design of health risk appraisal systems. Dr. Imrey served
as principal investigator for risk appraisal research sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and other agencies. A graduate of Rhodes College, Dr.
Imrey received her PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
John La Puma, MD, F.A.C.P., coauthor of
The RealAge Diet and
Cooking the Realage Way, is the founder of the Santa Barbara Institute for Medical Nutrition and Healthy Weight, a division of CHEF Clinic
™ (Cooking, Healthy Eating and Fitness Clinic). A graduate of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Dr. La Puma performed his residency in internal medicine at UCLA and the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center and completed the first postgraduate fellowship in the country
in medical ethics and general internal medicine at the University of Chicago. Dr. La Puma cooked for 4 years at chef Rick Bayless's Topolobampo/Frontera Grill after completing the professional cooking curriculum at the Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago, a division of Le Cordon Bleu. Now based in Santa Barbara, Dr. La Puma practices preventive internal medicine, directs the executive coaching for weight loss and health program, and offers free healthy eating recipes online at
www.drjohnlapuma.com.
Dr. Peck joined the Food and Drug Administration as director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research in October 1987. He was promoted to assistant surgeon general in the Public Health Service in October 1990. In September 1994, Professor Peck joined the faculty of the Georgetown University Medical Center, where he is the founding director of the new Center for Drug Development Science. His research interests center on pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics,
transdermal drug delivery, experimental design, data analysis, and drug development and regulation. He is the author of more than 100 original research papers, chapters, and books dealing with those subjects. Dr. Peck is a member of the RealAge Scientific Advisory Board.
Keith Roach, MD, is a member of the RealAge Scientific Advisory Board. He is also assistant professor in the department of medicine, section of internal medicine, at the University of Chicago.
