Dr. Michael Roizen

Statewide Board Director & Foundation Board Treasurer - Appointed By Attorney General Dave Yost

The Chief Wellness Officer at the Cleveland Clinic since 2007, Roizen also served as the founding Chair of the Wellness Institute, as well as chair of the Anesthesiology Institute at Cleveland Clinic, where he was responsible for over 180 operatories, 124 critical care beds and 28 pain therapy intervention units. A past Chair of a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee and a former editor for six medical journals, Roizen has published more than 185 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 100 textbook chapters, 30 editorials, and four medical books (one, a medical best-seller), and received 13 U.S. and many foreign patents. He's also given over 1,600 lectures to professional medical groups and has been recognized with over 20 professional lectureships. 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 and completed Public Health Service at the National Institutes of Health in the laboratory of Irv Kopin and Nobel Prize winner Julius Axelrod. He is certified by both the American Boards of Internal Medicine and of Anesthesiology.