Bio
Mark A. Moyad, MD, MPH, occupies an endowed position created and funded entirely by the patients he has helped over the past 15 years. He is the Jenkins/Pokempner Director of Preventive & Complementary Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical Center (Department of Urology) & he is also the consulting Director of Medical Education & Research for the Eisenhower Wellness Institute, a part of the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, CA. Mark actually published his first medical paper in college (College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio) at the age of 22 on the effects of a compound found in cottonseed oil and its potential to prevent several diseases. He received his Masters in Public Health (M.P.H.) degree from the University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) with a focus on epidemiology & dietary supplements, and he received his medical education and degree from the Wayne State University School of Medicine (Detroit, MI). He is the primary author of over 130 published medical journal articles and he is the former editor-in-chief of the medical journal “Seminars in Preventive & Alternative Medicine” by Elsevier. He is or has been an editor and reviewer for multiple diverse medical journals in Urology, Oncology and Alternative Medicine. Mark was the former course director or co-director for the annual AUA (American Urological Society), ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology) and SUNA (Society of Urologic Nurses Association) class on Preventive and Alternative Medicine. Mark is the co-author or author of 9 books including his most recent “Dr. Moyad’s No Bogus Science Health Advice: A step-by-step guide to what works & what is worthless”, “Beyond Hormonal Therapy”-a guide for advanced cancer patients, and “Dr. Moyad’s Guide to Male Sexual Health”. He has also maintained a consulting practice in Complementary and Alternative Medicine for the last 15 years, and he has lectured on breast, prostate and a variety of other cancers in addition to cardiovascular disease and general health promotion internationally in almost every country and in all 50 states and at every single major academic institution. He has and continues to consult for most major magazines and television shows devoted to health in the U.S. He created the Promoting Wellness campaign, which involves teaching materials that focus on lifestyle changes and objective dietary supplement advice, which is now utilized by clinicians and patients from Australia to Europe to South Africa. Mark has probably educated the largest number of health care professionals on the topic of complementary and alternative medicine in the world while also arguably writing and publishing the largest number of medical articles on integrative medicine, and in 2009 he was named as one of the most influential physicians in the U.S. (www.influentialdoctors.usatoday.com). His current research involves lifestyle changes to reduce cancer treatment side effects, advocacy, & cancer vaccine testing. For the past 15 years, Dr. Moyad has also volunteered weekly for national and local patient advocacy groups and low-income/free clinics in need of help. Currently he volunteers for multiple national patient advocacy groups (PAACT, PCRI, US TOO…) to provide monthly education, help patients in need of more information, better access to the latest medical care, and other resources. For example, after Hurricane Katrina, he worked with the Lower Ninth Ward Health Clinic in New Orleans to provide anything and everything from books for children in the waiting room, medical supplies and regular fundraising for the clinic itself. Dr. Moyad is one of the creators and now the co-chair of the EAP (Early Access Program) committee, whose primary purpose is to negotiate and facilitate the delivery of ground breaking successful phase 3 medications to individuals with the most advanced forms of cancer while these medicines are in the 6-12 month window waiting for FDA approval. He also loves water sports, movies, sushi & his family, but of course not in that specific order.
