The
American Lung Association of Central New York
and theNew
York State
Society for Respiratory Care
Dean, School of Medicine and Vice-President for Biomedical Sciences Professor
of Medicine and Anesthesia and Critical Care SUNY Upstate Medical School and
University, Syracuse, New York Dr. Roizen 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 in Boston and completed a tour of
duty in the Public Health Service at the National Institutes of Health in the
laboratory of Irv Kopin and Nobel Prize winner Julius Axelrod. He completed his
residency in anesthesiology at the University of California, San Francisco. He
is certified by both the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American
Board of Anesthesiology. For the prior 16 years he chaired the Department of
Anesthesia and Critical Care at the University of Chicago, and helped lead that
department to a "Top 10 in the World status" for the last 8 years.
On June 20th, 2001, Dr. Roizen was appointed Dean of the School of Medicine
and Vice-President For Biomedical Sciences of SUNY Upstate Medical School and
University in Syracuse, New York. Dr. Roizen is past chair of a Food and Drug
Administration advisory committee, a current consultant to a FDA Advisory
Committee, an editor or associate editor for six medical journals, and was an
editor for the University of Chicago's Better Health newsletter. Dr. Roizen has
published more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 100 textbook chapters,
30 editorials, and three medical books. His first lay book is RealAge: Are You
As Young As You Can Be? published by HarperCollins and available nationally. A
#1 New York Times bestseller, RealAge was awarded the Books for a Better Life
Awards' Best Wellness Book of 1999. His second book, The RealAge Diet: Make
Yourself Younger with What You Eat also achieved Bestseller status on the New
York Times list. He has been awarded 9 US patents, helped start 3 companies, has
delivered more than 20 named lectureships on 6 continents, and has served as a
visiting professor at over 100 medical institutions. He writes a lay column on
health syndicated to 40 newspapers, and the RealAge "Tip of the Day"
is subscribed to by 1.5 million people.
He was medical director of the Chicago Program for Executive Health. He and
his wife have both been listed continually in the Best Doctors in America; he
has listed since 1989 in the forerunner to that publication entitled The 1000
Best Doctors in America. The Roizens have two children: Jeff a sophomore MSTP
(MD and PhD) student at Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, and
Jennifer, a junior at Williams College. Dr Roizen is an active squash player,
having won over 75 Class "A" tournaments. He chaired the United States
Squash Racquets Medical Advisory committee for 8 years, and was instrumental in
leading squash to be the first racquet sport to mandate lensed eyeware for all
tournament play (the USSRA received the Society for the Prevention of Blindness
1994 "Eye Saver Award" for that requirement and its effectiveness).
For more program information, contact Glenn Ivers at the American Lung
Association of Central New York at 1620 Burnett Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13206,
tel:
e-mail:
Russ Acevedo, Program Chair and Webmaster: russ
Glenn Ivers, Co-Chair: glenn
Chuck Svoboda, Co-Chair: chuck
