Mehmet Oz

Mehmet Cengiz Öz (born June 11, 1960), also known as Dr. Oz, is an American doctor, politician, writer, educator, and television personality who has been the 17th and current Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services since 2025. 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. He also has Turkish citizenship.

A Republican, Oz unsuccessfully ran for the United States Senate in 2022. In November 2024, he was picked by President-elect Donald Trump to run the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in April 2025.

Television career
In 2003, Oprah Winfrey was the first guest on the Discovery Channel series Second Opinion with Dr. Oz, and he was a regular guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show. In 2009, The Dr. Oz Show first aired. It ran for 13 seasons. Oz was a supporter of pseudoscience and often showed false medical claims.

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

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
On November 19, 2024, Oz was picked by President-elect Donald Trump to run the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. On April 3, the U.S. Senate voted 53–45 to confirm Oz as CMS administrator.

Personal life
Öz was born on June 11, 1960 in Cleveland, Ohio to a Turkish family. 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. 

Oz served in the Turkish Army during the 1980s for 60 days of mandatory training.

Öz married his wife Lisa Lemole in 1985. They have four children. He now lives in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania.

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Other websites

  Dr. Oz Show
 Columbia University Department of Surgery profile

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