Dean Ornish Biography

Dean Michael Ornish is an American physician, and president and founder of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute located in Sausalito, California. He also works at the University of California, San Francisco where he serves as a Clinical Professor of Medicine. Dr. Dean Ornish wants you to live longer, and have more fun while you're at it.

He has quickly become one of the leading advocates in the medical community who promotes a balanced, holistic approach to health, and proving that it works. The research he and his team conducted at the Preventive Medicine Research Institute clinically demonstrated that prostate cancer as well as many cardiovascular can be treated and even reversed through a combination of diet and exercise. These findings have been widely chronicled in the US media, including Newsweek, for which Ornish writes a column.

The author of Eat More, Weigh Less and several other best-selling books, Ornish has become well known for his lifestyle-centric approach to combating heart disease. Dean Ornish, M.D. is a revolutionary thought leader in healthcare and medicine, and in 35 years of research he has proven through various studies that comprehensive changes to a person’s lifestyle can improve chronic conditions and transform lives.

Dean Ornish has been honored as “one of the most interesting people of 1996” by People magazine; selected as one of the “TIME 100” in integrative medicine; recognized as one of the 125 most extraordinary alumni who graduated from the University of Texas; chosen by LIFE magazine as “one of the fifty most influential members of his generation;” and by Forbes magazine as “one of the seven most powerful teachers in the world.”

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