Nicholas Perricone
(Author Dr. Nicholas Perricone M.D.)
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Nicholas Perricone, MD, FACN, is a board
certified clinical and research dermatologist. A brilliant scholar, Dr.
Perricone completed medical school in just 2 1/2 years, graduating at
the head of his class.
He completed his internship
in Pediatrics at Yale Medical School and his Dermatology Residency at
Ford Medical Center. Dr. Perricone is regarded as the father of the Inflammation
Theory of Aging.
He is the author of the New
York Times bestseller The Wrinkle Cure (Rodale Reach May 2000).Warner
Books published the trade paper edition in May of 2001. It reached # 1
on both the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times bestseller
lists March 24, 2002 and remained there for four weeks.
Close to one million copies
are in print. His PBS-TV special of the same name is one of the top fundraisers
for Public Television.
Dr. Perricone is certified by the American Board
of Dermatology, is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences and a
Fellow of the American College of Nutrition.
He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology
and the Society of Investigative Dermatology. He is the recipient of the
2002 Eli Whitney Award, awarded annually to an outstanding individual
for significant contribution to science.
Prior recipients include National Medal of Science
recipient, Igor Sikorsky, (founder of Sikorsky aircraft) inventor of the
first practical helicopter, which established the bedrock upon which today's
helicopter industry rests, and Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic
dome -- the lightest, strongest, and most cost-effective structure ever
devised.
Dr. Perricone holds dozens of US and international
patents for the treatment of skin and systemic disease, and for the use
of topical anti-inflammatories for reversing and preventing damage to
skin caused by age, the sun, the environment, hormonal changes, etc.
He is the author of numerous scientific articles
documenting the results of his research and is a contributing editor to
the peer-reviewed medical journal Skin and Aging and is a member
of the editorial board of Archives of Gerontology & Geriatrics.
He is Chairman of the International Symposium on
Aging Skin, an annual meeting in which researchers come together from
around the world to share their latest scientific breakthroughs in the
prevention of aging and aging skin.
Vogue magazine has named Dr. Perricone one
of the top four dermatologists in the United States.
His latest book The Perricone Prescription, A
Physician's 28-Day Program for Total Body and Face Rejuvenation, is
being published by HarperCollins to coincide with the premier of his second
television special for PBS-TV, the leading national educational television
network, in September of 2002.
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