Dean Edell
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Doctor Dean Edell is an American physician and broadcaster in the United States who hosts The Dr. Dean Edell Show, a syndicated radio talk show.
Private life
Born in New York state in 1942 to a Jewish family, Edell studied zoology at Cornell University and earned his M.D. from Cornell University Medical School in 1967. He later opened a private ophthalmology practice in San Diego, California and acted as an instructor of Anatomy and a clinical instructor at the University of California, San Diego. Edell soon left private practice, claiming that he "...really didn't like medicine. I kind of hated it, actually."He spent the next several years experimenting with lifestyles that included buying and selling antiques, acting as a silversmith and goldsmith, organic farming, painting, living in a '50s-vintage bus and engaging in a self-described hand-to-mouth existence that included scavenging for food thrown out by grocery stores.
In the mid 1970s, Edell served as medical director of the County Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Center in Sacramento, California. He moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1980, and currently lives in a rural area in Marin County.
Edell has been married five times, has five sons, two stepsons and a stepdaughter.
Edell maintains collections of Chinese art, Chinese snuff bottles, and rare books on anatomy.
The Dr. Dean Edell Show
In 1978, Edell began broadcasting regularly on KGO AM 810 in San Francisco. The Dr. Dean Edell Show has been in continuous production since then, and is currently (2005) syndicated to 90 markets by Premiere Radio Networks. KGO still airs the program as its San Francisco affiliate.The show's format includes commentary from Edell, who reports recent developments in medical science. He frequently summarizes complicated medical material into formats that are easily understood by laymen, and is fond of tackling controversial concepts from a viewpoint based in science.
During most of the show, Edell takes medical questions from callers and provides answers as capable. Edell is extremely critical of drugs such as Ritalin and the increasing number of diagnoses for attention deficit disorder (ADD) among children, based partially on Edell's own experience as someone diagnosed with ADD. He also is critical of routine circumcision.
Other radio and television broadcasts
Edell also anchors Medical Minutes, a series of ten weekly radio medical reports. He also hosts a daily 90-second medical report shown in 75 television markets. Edell has also hosted numerous television series on health, including programs for Discovery Channel and The Learning Channel. Dr. Dean also does health reports for KGO-TV for its nighttime newscasts.Publications
Periodicals
Dr. Edell was the author of the "Edell Health Letter", published from 1982 until 1994. He also contributes articles to [HealthCentral.com], a prominent online health news organization.Books
- The Brush & The Stone, Art Media Resources, 1999
- Eat, Drink, & Be Merry, Harper, 2000
- Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Healthiness, Harper, 2005
Websites
In 1999, Edell launched the aforementioned HealthCentral, a website featuring both personally authored content and general health-related information with the mission of "becoming your favorite consumer health information service." Edell lost his ownership position in this company when it filed for bankruptcy in 2001.Dr. Dean Edell Reading Glasses
Edell has lent his name to a line of reading glasses sold in the United States since the mid-1980s.Awards
Edell has won media awards for his work, including the C. Everett Koop Media Award competition, the Edward R. Murrow Award, a national Emmy, the American Cancer Society recognition award, and the American Heart Association award.References
- Antonucci, Mike (Jan. 5, 2004). "The Dr. Dean You Don't Know". San Jose Mercury News
- ["About Dr. Dean"]. Retrieved Dec. 23, 2005
- uncredited (Oct. 10, 2001) ["HealthCentral Files Chapter 11"] East Bay Business Times
- [abc7news.com] Dr. Dean's tv bio
- [kgoam810.com]Dr. Dean's radio bio and blog site.
- [HEALTHCENTRAL.COM]
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