Dean Ornish is Founder and President of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, Calif., where he holds the Safeway Chair. He is also a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. His 25 years of clinical research demonstrate that comprehensive lifestyle changes may begin to reverse even severe coronary heart disease, without drugs or surgery. His research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals and highlighted on PBS and in other major media. He is the author of five best-selling books and sits on several nonprofit boards; in addition, he was appointed to The White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. He has received the Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement, a U.S. Army Surgeon General Medal, the Beckmann Medal from the German Society for Prevention and Rehabilitation of Cardiovascular Diseases, "Scientist of the Year" award from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation and was chosen by LIFE magazine as "one of the 50 most influential members of his generation." Ornish earned his M.D. at Baylor College of Medicine and trained at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.

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Nutrition and Health: Separating Fact from Fiction

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