Dr. Michael Roizen

Michael F. Roizen, MD, the founder of RealAge, is a 52-year-old professor of medicine and chair of the top-ten-ranked department of anesthesia and critical care at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine.

Dr. Roizen practices internal medicine and uses the RealAge measurement routinely to motivate patients to healthier behaviors. He has provided personalized medical care to hundreds of individuals including seven Nobel Prize winners.

In addition to founding RealAge, he developed the HealthQuiz, and is a co-inventor of the guideline application patent that allows guidelines to be transformed through questionnaires into suggestions and recommendations for patients and physicians.

Dr. Roizen pioneered the use of a questionnaire to implement guidelines and preoperative testing, and among his over 130 peer-reviewed publications are several key ones on preoperative evaluation and implementing preoperative guidelines to reduce unnecessary tests, and select all appropriate tests.

He co-authored a paper with Earl Steinberg, Robert Hayward, and Keith Roach in the Annals of Internal Medicine comparing guidelines for preventive care, and helped institute the HealthQuiz guideline questionnaire package for preventive care for adults, as well as the ones for adolescence and pediatric patients.

Dr. Roizen is a graduate of the University of California, San Francisco medical school. 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 lab of Irv Kopin and Nobel prize winner Julius Axelrod.

Dr. Roizen is chair of a Food and Drug Administration 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 120 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 100 textbook chapters, 25 editorials, and two medical books. His latest book, "Real Age: Are You As Young As You Can Be?" was published by Harper-Collins and is available nationally.