DEAN ORNISH has 25 years of experience directing clinical research, demonstrating, for the first time, that comprehensive lifestyle changes may reverse even severe coronary heart disease without drugs or surgery. He is Founder, President, and Director of the non-profit Preventive Medicine Research Institute; Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco; and physician consultant to former President Clinton and several members of the U.S. Congress. He is also the author of five best-selling books, including New York Times' bestsellers Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease; Eat More, Weigh Less; and Love & Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy.

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