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He received a Bachelor's in Biology from Harvard University in 1982 after attending an elite prep school. He received an MD and MBA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1986. He did his residency at Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, where he practiced as a cardiac surgeon. In 2001, he became a professor at Columbia University, where he engaged in controversial experiments on dogs that were demonstrably cruel, as described below. Those activities were not widely known when he started appearing as a guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show in 2006, which he parlayed into an eponymous show in 2009.
The Dr. Oz show aired more than 1500 episodes over more than a decade, some of which generated substantial controversy. In 2016, he featured GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump on his show after Trump claimed to be in excellent health, a PR coup for Trump. (Numerous news accounts have detailed the unusual hyperbole about his Trump's health purportedly issued by his personal physician and subsequent onesothers.) In 2022, Oz announced he would seek the GOP nomination to be the party's candidate for the U.S. Senate. Trump backed Oz in the primary. He faces Democratic candidate John Fetterman in the general election in November 2022.
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