Dr. Dean Edell, one of the first physician broadcasters in the nation, is the host of America's most popular medical talk program, The Dr. Dean Edell Show, heard on more than 400 radio stations, as well as the anchor of Medical Minutes, health reports heard on WHNZ every morning at 5:30 during The Wall Street Journal This Morning. 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.

Dr. Edell began his career as one of the first "media doctors" in 1978 on KGO Radio in San Francisco. He has been the host of numerous television series on health, including programs for Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, and national syndication, and was the author of the Edell Health Letter, published from 1982 until 1994. Over the past 24 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 a clinical instructor at the Department of Surgery for the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. He moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1980.

Doctor Dean Edell can currently be heard on 1250 WHNZ Saturday and Sunday evenings from 7 to 10pm. Check out Dr. Dean's Website.