Mehmet Oz

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Mehmet Oz

Mehmet Oz, 2008
Born Mehmet Cengiz Öz
June 11, 1960 (1960-06-11) (age 50)
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Occupation Cardiac Surgeon, Talk Show Host
Spouse(s) Lisa Oz
Website
http://www.doctoroz.com

Mehmet Cengiz Oz (Turkish: Mehmet Cengiz Öz; born June 11, 1960) is a Turkish-American cardiothoracic surgeon and author. He has made frequent appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show, as well as appearances on Larry King Live, CNN, and other networks.

In 2009, Winfrey's Harpo Productions and Sony Pictures launched a syndicated daily talk show featuring Oz, called The Dr. Oz Show.[1]

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[edit] Life and career

Oz was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Turkish parents[2] Suna and Mustafa, who had immigrated from Konya, Turkey.[3][4] Mustafa was born in Bozkır, a small town in central Turkey. Mustafa did very well in school and earned scholarships that allowed him to emigrate to the United States as a medical resident in 1955. Suna comes from a wealthy family that includes writers, civil engineers, and businessmen. Several of her great-grandparents came from the Caucasus mountains, leaving the region after the Russian Empire took it over in the 1860s.[4]

Mehmet Oz was educated at Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Delaware. In 1982 he received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University. In 1986, he obtained a joint MD and MBA degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and The Wharton School.[5] He was awarded the Captain’s Athletic Award for leadership in college[6] and was Class President followed by President of the Student Body during medical school.[7]

Oz is Vice-Chair and Professor of Surgery at Columbia University. He directs the Cardiovascular Institute and Complementary Medicine Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.[8] His research interests include heart replacement surgery, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, and health care policy. He has authored over 400 original publications, book chapters, and medical books and has received several patents. He performs around 250 heart operations annually.[9]

Oz is the founder and chairman of HealthCorps, a non-profit organization that pays a small stipend to recent college graduates to spend two years in high schools mentoring students about health, nutrition, and fitness.

[edit] Television, radio and movies

Oz appeared as a health expert on The Oprah Winfrey Show for five seasons.[10] His Transplant! television series won both a Freddie[11] and a Silver Telly award.[12] He has appeared on Good Morning America, the Today show, Larry King Live and The View, as well as guest-hosting the Charlie Rose show. In addition, he served as medical director of Denzel Washington’s John Q and participated in several other feature films.[13] He currently hosts The Dr. Oz Show on television and a talk show on Sirius XM Radio.[4]

[edit] Author

Oz authored six New York Times best sellers including You: The Owner’s Manual, You: The Smart Patient, YOU: On a Diet, YOU: Staying Young, YOU: Being Beautiful as well as the award winning Healing from the Heart. His new book, YOU: Having a Baby, was published by Free Press on December 1, 2009. He has a regular column in Esquire magazine and O, The Oprah Magazine and his article “Retool, Reboot, and Rebuild” was awarded the 2009 National Magazine Award for Personal Service.[14]

[edit] Awards and honors

Time magazine ranked Oz 44th on its list of the 100 Most Influential People in 2008[15] and Esquire magazine placed him on its list of the 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century.[16] He was called a Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum[4] and one of “The Harvard 100 Most Influential Alumni” by 02138 magazine.[17] He won the Gross Surgical Research Scholarship.[17] He was listed in “Doctors of the Year” by Hippocrates magazine and in “Healers of the Millennium” by Healthy Living magazine.[18] Oz is annually listed in the Castle Connolly Guide of the top United States doctors,[19] as well as other ranking groups.[citation needed]

Other awards and honors include:

[edit] Personal life

Oz lives in northern New Jersey with his wife Lisa. They have been married since 1985[21] and have four children: Daphne, Arabella, Zoe, and Oliver.

Oz is fluent in both English and Turkish.[22] He is a holder of both Turkish and American citizenship, having served time in the Turkish Army to retain his Turkish citizenship.[23]

His father's side of the family were Sufi Muslim [24] and mother's side were secular.[24] He has also been influenced by the ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg, the Swedish scientist, philosopher, and Christian theologian. He recently wrote in Spirituality and Health Magazine that "As I came into contact with Swedenborg's many writings, I began to understand Swedenborg's profound insights and how they applied directly to my life". He mentions Swedenborg's ideas that marriage lasts to eternity, everyone has a purpose in this world, God is love, and Swedenborg's answers to "Why do bad things happen?".[25]

[edit] Health

In 2010, Oz was diagnosed with a pre-cancerous growth in the colon during a routine colonoscopy.

[edit] Controversy

[edit] RealAge drug marketing

As: The New York Times has explained, Oz is a "spokesman and advisor" for the website RealAge.com, which the paper has heavily criticized for its pharmaceutical marketing practices. The site solicits medical information from visitors, ostensibly to determine a visitor’s "biological age" and then uses the visitor's medical profile for pharmaceutical marketing purposes. As The Times reporter explained the significance of this fact: "While few people would fill out a detailed questionnaire about their health and hand it over to a drug company looking for suggestions for new medications, that is essentially what RealAge is doing."[26]

[edit] Alternative medicine

Oz is a supporter of alternative medicine.[3] Some conventional medical practitioners allege that Oz may be promoting unproven and potentially harmful alternative medicine practices on The Oprah Winfrey Show [27] and elsewhere.[28][29][30] Appearing in surgical scrubs on the show's set in Chicago, Oz has promoted self-described energy based practices and acupuncture on the show.[31]

[edit] Books and publications

[edit] Television shows

[edit] References

  1. ^ Harpo Productions and Sony Pictures Television To Launch Dr. Oz, Oprah.com, June 13, 2008.
  2. ^ Turkish Times
  3. ^ a b Zak, Lana (2009-08-31). "Dr. Oz on Complementary Medicine: 'Challenge the Status Quo'". Good Morning America. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/story?id=8450292. Retrieved 2009-10-12. 
  4. ^ a b c d "Faces of America: Dr. Mehmet Oz", PBS, Faces of America series, with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 2010.
  5. ^ Ratner, Lizzy (2007-08-14). "The Great and Powerful Dr. Oz". New York Observer. http://www.nyobserver.com/2007/great-and-powerful-dr-oz. Retrieved 2007-09-24. 
  6. ^ [1]
  7. ^ "Dr Oz – The Dr Oz Show – Dr Mehmet Oz - About.com". Talkshows.about.com. http://www.talkshows.about.com/od/thedrozshow/p/DrOzBio.htm. Retrieved 2010-05-22. 
  8. ^ "Mehmet Oz | Professor, Columbia University". Big Think. http://bigthink.com/mehmetoz. Retrieved 2010-05-22. 
  9. ^ "Dr. Mehmet Oz, Heart Surgeon with a Big Heart". Theturkishtimes.com. 2003-01-09. http://www.theturkishtimes.com/archive/03/0503/f-oz.html. Retrieved 2010-05-22. 
  10. ^ "Live your best Life". Oprah.com. http://www.oprah.com/contributor/dr-mehmet-oz. Retrieved 2010-05-22. 
  11. ^ "The FREDDIE Awards". Thefreddies.com. http://www.thefreddies.com/Awards/Results.aspx?CategoryId=17&Year=2006. Retrieved 2010-05-22. 
  12. ^ "The 31st Annual TELLY Awards | Winners". Tellyawards.com. http://www.tellyawards.com/winners/list/?l=L&event=7&category=1&award=S. Retrieved 2010-05-22. 
  13. ^ [2]
  14. ^ "American Society of Magazine Editors - 2010 National Magazine Awards Winners Announced!". Magazine.org. 2010-04-22. http://www.magazine.org/asme/magazine_awards/nma_winners. Retrieved 2010-05-22. 
  15. ^ "The 2008 Time 100". Time. 2009-04-30. http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1733748_1733754_1735329,00.html. Retrieved 2010-05-12. 
  16. ^ Five, Column (2008-09-16). "Influential People - 21st Century". Esquire. http://www.esquire.com/features/most-influential-21st-century-1008. Retrieved 2010-05-22. 
  17. ^ a b "Listing". Neco.org. http://neco.org/profileList.php?list=o. Retrieved 2010-05-22. 
  18. ^ a b c d e "Mehmet Oz Biography". tvguide.com. http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/mehmet-oz/bio/215510. Retrieved 2010-05-01. 
  19. ^ "Doctor Listings". Castleconnolly.com. http://www.castleconnolly.com/doctors/index.cfm. Retrieved 2010-05-22. 
  20. ^ "Welcome to The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre". Rissc.jo. http://www.rissc.jo/. Retrieved 2010-05-22. 
  21. ^ Married on July 29, 1985 in Bryn Athyn, PA - New Church Life, 1985, p. 430.
  22. ^ "The Wizard of Dr Oz - talkturkey". Talkturkey.us. 2009-07-19. http://www.talkturkey.us/2009/07/the-wizard-of-dr-oz.html. Retrieved 2010-05-22. 
  23. ^ Brown, Chip (1995-07-30). "The Experiments of Dr. Oz". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/30/magazine/the-experiments-of-dr-oz.html?pagewanted=3. Retrieved 2010-05-12. 
  24. ^ a b "Henry Louis Gates Jr. Faces of America: Dr. Mehmet Oz". Theroot.com. 2010-08-19. http://www.theroot.com/multimedia/meet-faces-america-dr-mehmet-oz. Retrieved 2010-08-28. 
  25. ^ "Spirituality & Health: Mehmet Oz Finds His Teacher". Spirituality-health.com. http://www.spirituality-health.com/NMagazine/articles.php?id=1768. Retrieved 2010-05-22. 
  26. ^ Stephanie Clifford, "Online Age Quiz Is a Window for Drug Makers", The New York Times. March 25, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/technology/internet/26privacy.html
  27. ^ "The Oprah-fication of medicine". Science-Based Medicine. http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=497#more-497. Retrieved 2010-08-28. 
  28. ^ "Senator Tom Harkin: NCCAM and inviting the Four Horsemen of the Woo-pocalypse into the Senate : Respectful Insolence". Scienceblogs.com. http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/03/senator_tom_harkin.php. Retrieved 2010-08-28. 
  29. ^ "You. You. Who are you calling a You You?". Science-Based Medicine. http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=3370. Retrieved 2010-08-28. 
  30. ^ "David & Goliath: A Dramatic Role Reversal Spurred On By The Media". Science-Based Medicine. http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=2033#more-2033. Retrieved 2010-08-28. 
  31. ^ Oz, however has stated that these cures are merely to be considered, and are not to be used as replacements for conventional medicine, which he says is sometimes the best option. http://skepdic.com/skeptimedia/skeptimedia5.html

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