Mehmet Oz

Öz in January 2012

Mehmet Cengiz Öz (born June 11, 1960, called Dr. Oz) is a Turkish-American doctor, writer, educator, and television personality. He has a television show, The Dr. Oz Show. He helps people with health and weight. He won two Emmy Awards, in 2010 and in 2011.

In November 2021, Oz announced that he was running in the 2022 U.S. Senate election in Pennsylvania as a Republican.^[1] He won the nomination in June 2022, becoming the first Muslim to be nominated by either major party for U.S. Senate.^[2] He was defeated in the general election by John Fetterman.

Öz was born on June 11, 1960 in Cleveland, Ohio to a Turkish family.^[3] He studied at Tower Hill School, at Harvard University, at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Öz married his wife Lisa Lemole in 1985. They have four children. He now lives in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania.

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Oz at ServiceNation in 2008
Oz at the 2016 Voice Awards
Oz was heavily criticized by Senator Claire McCaskill in a hearing on consumer fraud in diet product advertising.
Johnson Chan, Matt Elisofon, Nick Reiner, and Rob Reiner with presenter Dr. Oz after accepting their SAMHSA Special Recognition Award and a 2016 Voice Award for their film Being Charlie
Official HHS portrait, 2018
An electronic campaign sign supporting Oz's candidacy along U.S. Route 30 in Pennsylvania
Oz campaigning in Chester County in October 2022
Oz with First Lady Michelle Obama in 2012 to promote her Let's Move! initiative. He has praised Obama for her focus on health and nutrition policies.
Oz speaking at the Mall in Columbia in Columbia, Maryland, August 2015
Oz and his wife Lisa Lemole at Time 100 gala (May 2010)