Dr. Michael Roizen - Scientific and Medical Consultant to Martek
We are pleased to announce that prominent physician, author and media personality Michael F. Roizen, MD, has become a medical and scientific consultant to Martek. A longtime advocate for omega-3s, Dr. Roizen is committed to raising awareness for DHA and to educating consumers and healthcare professionals about the important health benefits of DHA for people of all ages.
Named to Best Doctors in America every year since 1989, Dr. Roizen is one of the most respected medical experts in the world today. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Williams College and Alpha Omega Alpha graduate of the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, Dr. Roizen is an internal medicine physician and anesthesiologist certified by both the American Boards of Internal Medicine and of Anesthesiology.
After nine years on the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Roizen chaired the top-ten rated Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care at the University of Chicago. Later, he 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 Division of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, and Comprehensive Pain Management at the Cleveland Clinic. In this role, he was responsible for over 180 operatories, 124 critical care beds and 28 pain therapy intervention units.
Currently, Dr. Roizen serves as the Chief Wellness Officer (CWO) for Cleveland Clinic, the first such position in a major healthcare institution in the United States. Dr. Roizen also serves as chairman of the Wellness Institute at Cleveland Clinic. The Institute aims to elevate preventive and wellness care to a driving role in medicine and society by radically improving health and decreasing illness costs spiritually, physically and economically. The Wellness Institute includes Employee Health and Wellness, The Department of Preventive Medicine, Premium Access Programs, Disease Reversal and Integrative Medicine Programs, and the Wellness Public Policy and Community Support Programs of the Cleveland Clinic.
As cofounder and chair of the RealAge, Inc. Scientific Advisory Board, Dr. Roizen is a force behind RealAge, a patented measurement standard for healthcare that compares biological versus calendar age, based upon 125 factors that can influence rate of aging. This health metric has received widespread consumer, medical, and scientific acceptance. As a practicing anesthesiologist and internist, Dr. Roizen uses the RealAge metric to motivate his patients. He routinely sees patients at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute who are struggling with tobacco, heart, diabetic, and arthritic problems and coaches them with simple but persistent lifestyle changes so that they may live, feel, look, and be years younger. He has successfully helped many of his patients reduce or eliminate the need for medications and focuses on teaching the role of diet, including increased DHA-omega-3 consumption, exercise, stress management, and other simple steps in reversing disease processes.
In addition to his role as a physician, Dr. Roizen is an accomplished businessman, author and media expert. Dr. Roizen has received 13 U.S. and numerous foreign patents and has published more than 165 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 100 textbook chapters, 30 editorials, and four medical books, including one medical best-seller.
His first general audience book, RealAge: Are You as Young as You Can Be? (HarperCollins Publishers) was a No. 1 New York Times best-seller, a No-1 best-seller in four other countries, and it has been translated into more than 20 languages. Other books include the New York Times bestseller The RealAge Diet: Make Yourself Younger with What You Eat (HarperCollins), written with Dr. John La Puma, Cooking the RealAge Way (Harper Collins), also with Dr. La Puma., and The RealAge Makeover (HarperCollins). In 2005, Dr. Roizen teamed with Health Corps founder Dr. Mehmet Oz to write YOU: The Owner's Manual (HarperCollins), a No. 1 New York Times best-seller that has sold more than 2.7 million hardcover copies worldwide. It was followed by the New York Times best-seller YOU: The Smart Patient and YOU: On A Diet, the Owner's Manual for Waist Management, which debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times list, where it stayed for 11 consecutive weeks, becoming the second best-selling book of 2006.
Roizen and Oz's latest book, YOU: Staying Young, The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty debuted in November 2007 on the New York Times best-seller list, where it remains as a No. 1 best-seller today. The book is also listed by People Magazine as the #3 best-selling book in the world in 2007.
Dr. Roizen has been a regular guest on numerous national television programs (e.g., The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, 20/20, CBN, CNN, CBS, Good Morning America, etc), hosted PBS fundraising specials, including a RealAge Makeover show that was one of the top PBS fundraisers for 2006, and has been featured regularly in print, including coverage in Fortune, O Magazine, Glamour, Cosmo, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, Prevention, to name a few. Dr. Roizen also hosts a weekly radio show entitled YOU: The Owner's Manual Radio Show and records each week for Oprah and Friends on satellite radio and a cable network.
Dr. Majid Fotuhi - Scientific and Medical Consultant to Martek
Dr. Fotuhi received his M.D. degree (cum laude) from Harvard Medical School, as a member of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST). He received his doctoral Ph.D. degree in neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He currently heads the Center for Memory and Brain Health at Berman Brain & Spine Institute at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore. He is also an assistant professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins University and a lecturer at Harvard Medical School. He has been a member of the American Academy of Neurology, American Medical Association, International Brain Research Organization, and Society for Neuroscience.
Dr. Fotuhi’s initial clinical research at Johns Hopkins focused on basic brain neurochemistry and on finding effective ways to prevent dementia. More specifically, he worked on longitudinal studies to determine the beneficial role of a combination of vitamins and natural supplements along with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) in maintaining cognitive function and brain health. His current research has focused on issues related to making an accurate diagnosis of dementia in late life. He has published his research findings in prestigious international journals such as Brain Research, Journal of Neuroscience, The Lancet, Nature, Neurology, Neuron, and Proceedings of National Academy of Science. His articles have been cited by thousands of scientists around the world. Based on his 23 years of research at Johns Hopkins and Harvard, he has developed and has a patent for a new neuroprotective vitamin supplement for memory and brain health (Remviva).
Dr. Fotuhi has dedicated much of his time to educating the public about memory and aging. He has been the keynote speaker for a dozen conferences around the world. In his book, “The Memory Cure: How to Protect Your Brain Against Memory Loss and Alzheimer's Disease,” he provides clear and concise information about how to prevent dementia. The Boston Globe, BusinessWeek, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Montreal Gazette, and The Times (London), as well as more than 50 television and radio stations in Canada and United States have interviewed him about his book and research. PBS stations have aired his DVD, titled “Conquering Memory Loss” many times. His book, “The New York Times Puzzles to Keep Your Brain Young: The 6-Step Age-Defying Program,” was the focus of the Public Television program, “Fight Alzheimer’s Early.” He has been featured on ABC News, CTV, the Montel show, Discovery Channel, and many nationally televised programs.
Dr. Fotuhi has taken a leadership role in medical education and was awarded the distinguished teaching award from the American Academy of Neurology. He has lectured in Canada, Egypt, China, Israel, Japan and at a creative leadership conference organize by United Nations.
Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D. - Scientific and Nutrition Consultant to Martek
Elizabeth Somer is a registered dietitian who is also well-versed in nutrition research. For 30 years she has kept herself aware of the current research in the nutrition field. Elizabeth received her bachelor’s degree in foods and nutrition from Oregon State University and her master’s degree in community health from Ohio State University. She has completed some doctoral work at the University of Oregon, and has taught college-level courses at Willamette University, Ohio State, Western Oregon University, Linfield College in Oregon, and University of California at San Diego’s Extension Program.
Somer has written many books, including: “Eat Your Way to Happiness,” “The 10 Habits That Mess Up a Woman’s Diet,” “The Food & Mood Cookbook,” “The Origin Diet,” “Food & Mood,” “Age-Proof Your Body,” “Nutrition for a Healthy Pregnancy,” “Nutrition for Women” and “The Essential Guide to Vitamins and Minerals.” She also co-authored “The Nutrition Desk Reference,” which is in its third edition.
Somer has served as editor of the Nutrition Report and as editor-in-chief of Nutrition Alert, newsletters that abstract the current nutrition research from more than 6,000 journals. She is also advisory board member to Shape, past editorial board member to Healing Lifestyles and contributing editor to Eating Well. She’s also written more than 300 articles in national magazines from Shape, Men’s Fitness, McCalls, and Self to Redbook, Prevention, Cosmopolitan, Fitness and Better Homes & Gardens.
Somer appears frequently on NBC’s “Today Show,” monthly on “AM Northwest” (KATU, Channel 2 in Portland, Oregon), and regularly on numerous national television shows, including “The Dr. Oz Show,” “The View,” CNN “WB Morning Buzz,” and several cable stations. She also was nutritional correspondent for ABC’s “Good Morning America” from 1996 through 1999 and a monthly guest on NBC’s “Later Today” from 1999 through 2000. Her one-hour PBS special on nutrition and aging aired nationally in 2001.
Somer specializes in offering practical and insightful information on how to eat and supplement; how food affects mood; how to prevent disease and premature aging; how to have a healthy pregnancy; and attaining and maintaining a healthy weight.