Robert Rowen, MD Is a Health Hero Medical Doctor and the Author Of the Second Opinion Newsletter

Professional Organizations

• American College of Advancement in Medicine

• American Academy of Environmental Medicine

• International Association of Oxidative Medicine
   

Commissions

• Public Member, Alaska Natives Commission: June, 1992

• Appointed to 4 year term on the Alaska State Medical Board by Governor Hickel, July 1992
   

Publications

• "Hypnotic Age Regression in the Treatment of a Self-Destructive Habit: Trichotillomania", American Journal of Hypnosis, Jan., 1979 

• "Alaska Legislative Miracle: Freedom of Choice," Townsend Newsletter for Doctors, November, 1990, Health Freedom. News, September, 1990

• "Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation Therapy (Photo-Oxidation); The Cure That Time Forgot", Int. J. Biosocial and Medical Research Vol. 14 (2), 115-132, 1996
   

 Most Notable Achievement

• Engineered the introduction and passage of North America's first statutory protection of unconventional medicine through the Alaska Sate Legislature, 1990
   

Continuing Education

• Multiple seminars and training sessions on nutritional medicine, Chelation therapy, oxidative medicine, neural therapy, prolotherapy, and chronic pain.
   

Training

• Rotating Internship at Highland Central General Hospital, Oakland, California, 1975- 1976

• Family Practice Residency, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

• Work Experience, 1977-1979

• General Medical Officer; Gallop Indian Medical Center, Gallop, New Mexico,  1976-1977

• Staff Family Physician and Emergency Room Physician; Alaska Native Medical Center, Anchorage, Alaska, 1979-1983
   

1983-Present

• Private Practice. Preventive medicine including, but not limited to, nutrition, acupuncture, diet, lifestyle, intravenous nutrition, electrical therapy, chelation therapy, etc. 

• Emphasis placed on assisting the body to heal by providing what it lacks to function properly and avoiding or removing toxins that interfere with biological processes. 

• Special emphases on oxidative medicine.
   

Certifications

• American Board of Family Practice: 1980; re-certified 1986, 1993

• American Board of Emergency Medicine: November 1985, re-certified 1999

• American Board of Chelation Therapy: November 1986; re-certified 1994

• American Board of Oxidative Medicine: 1996

• Fellow: American Academy of Family Physicians

• Diplomate: American Academy of Pain Management
   

Speaking Engagements

• American Academy of Advancement in Medicine, San Diego, California, November, 1998, Topic: "Biologic, Determeinants of Health/Disease"

• International Bio-Oxidative Medicine Association, Dallas, Texas, March, 1995. Topic: "Photo-Oxidation"

• International Association of Oxidative Medicine Workshop, Phoenix, Arizona, October, 1995. Keynote Speaker; Topic: "Photo-Oxidation and Ozone"

• Cancer Control Society, September, 1996. Keynote Speaker; Topic: "Photo Oxidation"

• American Academy of Environmental Medicine, Boston, MA. October, 1996. Keynote Speaker; Topic: "Photo-Oxidation"

• American College of Advancement in Medicine, Palm Springs, CA., November, 1996 Keynote Speaker: Topic: "Photo- Oxidation"

• Great Lake College of Advancement in Medicine, Ashville, NC., February, 1997; Topic: "Photo-Oxidation"

• International Association of Oxidative Medicine, Anchorage, AK, May, 1997. Keynote Speaker; Topics: Photo-Oxidation;" "The Dental Connections to Systemic Disease; and Colon Health and Connections to Systemic Disease."

• International Association of Oxidative Medicine, 1995-2000, Faculty Speaker at semi-annual workshops on oxidative medicine; Topics: Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation Therapy and Ozone."

• 15 years of radio medical talk show experience, 1985 - 2000