Bio

Dean Ornish, MD, is a bestselling author and the founder and president of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute. He is a clinical professor of medicine at both UCSF and UCSD. He received his MD from the Baylor College of Medicine and completed a fellowship in medicine at Harvard Medical School and an internship and residency in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He developed Dr. Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease and is directing the first randomized controlled trial to determine whether comprehensive lifestyle changes can reverse the progression of early Alzheimer’s disease.