Dr. Dean Edell, one of the first physician broadcasters in the nation, is the host of one of America's most popular syndicated radio talk shows, The Dr. Dean Edell Show, heard on more than 400 stations.
     Dr. Edell is known for translating complicated medical information into concise, easy-to-understand reports and for tackling topics that are obscure, unusual, and often controversial.

     Over the past 20 years of broadcasting, he has won numerous media awards for his on-air work, including the C. Everett Koop Media Awards competition, the Edward R. Murrow Award, a national Emmy, the American Cancer Society recognition award, the American Heart Association award, and other prestigious medical and media awards.
     A native of New York, Edell studied zoology as an undergraduate student at Cornell University and then earned his M.D. at Cornell University Medical School in 1967.
     Edell moved to California to do his residency at the University of California at San Diego. An ophthalmologist and surgeon, he set up private practice in San Diego and served as an instructor of anatomy and as a clinical instructor at the Department of Surgery for the University of California-San Diego School of Medicine.
     Dr. Dean can be heard Monday through Friday mornings at 10:00 on AM-800 KXIC.  Visit his website: www.healthcentral.com