Michael Fredric Roizen, Anesthesiologist; Internist; Author; Chief Wellness Officer, Cleveland Clinic

Chronic medical disease management now accounts for more than 80 percent of the nation’s spending on medical care and is substantially increasing as the number of people with chronic disease rises. Roizen argues that these chronic disease costs are increasing income inequality and decreasing the standard of living. Yet, he says, some of these diseases may be largely lifestyle-preventable.

The Cleveland Clinic used its 43,000 employees and 58,000 dependents as test cases. As Cleveland Clinic’s chief wellness officer and chair of its Wellness Institute, Dr. Roizen will talk about the Wellness Institute’s programs to help clinic employees collectively lose 455,000 pounds, reduce smoking rates from 15.4 to 5.2 percent, improve reversal and prevention of chronic diseases, and flatten the cost curve.

Join us to talk about the mechanisms of aging processes that Roizen argues we can control and actions one can take.