About Dr. Magee

Note: The extensive archives of Dr. Mike Magee's popular Internet based program, Health Politics with Dr. Mike Magee, have now been made available to Access Excellence and are being provided to AE users based on their classroom relevance and other criteria.

Mike Magee, M.D., is the host of Health Politics with Dr. Mike Magee, a weekly, Internet-based electronic media program that explores complex issues of health care policy and public health for consumers, policy makers, educators and the news media.

In addition to his role as host of Health Politics, Dr. Magee is a Senior Fellow in the Humanities to the World Medical Association and director of the Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative. He is a David Rockefeller Fellow, Professor of Surgery at Jefferson Medical College, and a Master Scholar at New York University School of Medicine.

He is noted for his visionary perspective on health care and for championing patient rights, principled leadership and access to scientific discoveries.

Dr. Magee’s work on creating healthy and productive cross-sector partnerships between government, industry, academia, and non-governmental organizations is well known and often quoted, placing him at the center of health care reform. He is often called upon to speak worldwide on a wide range of clinical, public health, and public policy issues that impact quality of life.

Dr. Magee has provided testimony to Congress and has consulted for the American Medical Association, the American Association of Medical Colleges and the American Hospital Association. As author of the book “The New Face of Aging” and a national spokesperson for the Senior Olympics, Dr. Magee has been an effective advocate for healthy aging. He has appeared on many national broadcasts to discuss healthy aging, including “The Today Show,” “CBS Morning News” and “Larry King Live.” Among other topics Dr. Magee has addressed in the media are family health, health care reform, patient advocacy, research and discovery, and the importance of the patient-physician relationship.

Dr. Magee is past president of the National Association of Physician Broadcasters and a former radio and television columnist, titled by the Boston Globe, "the most optimistic physician in America – Medicine's own Norman Vincent Peale."

Dr. Magee is also an accomplished public speaker and author. His other books include “The Best Medicine,” The Book of Choices, Positive Leadership, “All Available Boats” and “Positive Doctors in America.”

Born on January 20, 1948, Dr. Magee is the son of a house-call-making doctor and one of 12 children. He attended medical school in Syracuse, NY, and did his surgical residency at the University of North Carolina. He spent 13 years as a country doctor in rural New England before assuming progressive academic and leadership posts, including senior vice president of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, our nation's first hospital.