Born
Oz was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Suna and Mustafa Öz, who had
emigrated from Konya
Province, Turkey.
Mustafa Öz was born in Bozkır, a
small town in central Turkey. Mustafa Öz earned scholarships that allowed him
to emigrate to the United States as a medical
resident in 1955. Suna Öz (née Atabay), who comes from a
wealthy İstanbul
family, is the daughter of a pharmacist
with Shapsug
descent on her mother's side.
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. He was awarded the Captain’s Athletic Award for
leadership in college and was class
president and then student body president during medical school.
Career
Oz has been a professor at the Department of Surgery
at Columbia
University since 2001. He directs the Cardiovascular Institute
and Complementary Medicine Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
His research interests include heart replacement surgery, minimally invasive
cardiac surgery, and health care policy. With his collaborators, he has
authored over 400 research papers, book chapters and medical books and has
received several patents. He performs around 250 heart operations annually.
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.
In 2009, Oz joined Jeffrey T. Arnold (founder of WebMD) as co-founder of Sharecare, Inc.
providing an interactive QA platform that allows industry experts to answer
health-related questions.
Television, radio and movies
Oz appeared as a health expert on The Oprah Winfrey
Show for five seasons. On the show, he addressed issues like diabetes
and promoted resveratrol
supplements which he claimed were anti-aging. His Transplant! television
series won both a Freddie and a Silver Telly award. 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. He
currently hosts The Dr. Oz
Show on television and a talk show on Sirius XM Radio that
may be popular with such political figures as Florida Senator Bill Nelson
and former Speaker of the House of Representatives Dennis Hastert.
In January 2011, Oz premiered as part of a weekly show on the Oprah Winfrey
Network called "Oprah's Allstars".
Awards and honors
Time magazine ranked Oz
at 44th on its list of the "100 Most Influential People in 2008"and Esquire
magazine placed him on its list of the "75 Most Influential People of the
21st Century". He was called a Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World
Economic Forum and one of “The Harvard 100 Most Influential Alumni” by 02138
magazine. He won the Gross Surgical Research Scholarship. He was listed in
“Doctors of the Year” by Hippocrates magazine and in “Healers of the
Millennium” by Healthy Living magazine. Oz is annually listed in the Castle Connolly Guide of
the top United States doctorsas well as other ranking groups.
Other awards and honors include:
Honored by the New
York Open Center for "outstanding research in writing and communication
(and for) bridging Western and alternative/complementary medicine"2007
- Listed in Best Doctors of the Year, New York Magazine
- Turkish
American of the Year, 1996
- Books
for a Better America award for Healing from the Heart, 1999
- Robert
E. Gross Research Scholarship, American Association for Thoracic Surgery,
1994–1996
- Research
Award, American Society of Laser Medicine and Surgery, 1991
- Blakemore
Research Awards, Columbia University College
of Physicians and Surgeons, 1988–1991
- One of
the 500 most influential Muslims 2009.
- 2010 Daytime Emmy Award for
Outstanding Talk Show Host
- 2011 Most
Trusted Voice in Daytime Television.
- 2011 James Randi Educational Foundation Media Pigasus Award, which the foundation states
is for promoting "nonsense". The foundation complained about
Oz's support of energy medicine, faith healing and psychic mediums, among
other controversial practices. Oz is the first person to receive a Pigasus
Award two years in a row.
- 2011 Daytime Emmy Award for
Outstanding Talk Show Host
- 2011
The Independent Investigations Group awarded The Truly Terrible Television
award to Oz and Oprah Winfrey "for extraordinary
contributions to America's scientific illiteracy and pervasive fear
mongering."
Books
and publications
- Healing
from the Heart: A Leading Surgeon Combines Eastern and Western Traditions
to Create the Medicine of the Future, by Mehmet Öz, Ron Arias, Dean Ornish, 1999.
- Complementary
and Alternative Cardiovascular Medicine: Clinical Handbook, by Richard A. Stein (Editor),
Mehmet, M.D. Oz (Editor), 2004.
- YOU:
The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You
Healthier and Younger, by Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz, 2005.
- YOU: On
a Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management, by Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet
C. Oz, 2006.
- YOU:
The Smart Patient: An Insider's Handbook for Getting the Best Treatment, by Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet
C. Oz, 2006.
- YOU:
Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty, by Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet
C. Oz, 2007.
- YOU:
Being Beautiful: The Owner's Manual to Inner and Outer Beauty, by Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet
C. Oz, 2008.
- YOU:
Breathing Easy: Meditation and Breathing Techniques to Help You Relax,
Refresh, and Revitalize, by Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz, 2008.
- YOU:
Having a Baby: The Owner's Manual from Conception to Delivery and More, by Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet
C. Oz, 2009.
- Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, by Mehmet C. Oz, 2010.
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