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Dr. Xenakis is a renaissance leader in delivering integrative healthcare education for the media, healthcare providers and consumers. His professional career spans national television and radio health care programming, producing, anchoring and reporting. He holds experience in teaching hospital medical center research, university teaching, healthcare management consulting, and private and public company executive management. Dr. Xenakis is Founder and Director of the Xenakis Institute, a web based educational resource providing integrative information to the media, consumers and practicing healthcare providers. For more see www.XenakisInstitute.org. The Institute creates and manages databases of clinical information specializing in medicine (prescription and non-prescription) and disease induced nutrient depletion. Dr. Xenakis is recognized as identifying the “Nutrient Depletion Syndrome®.”
Dr. Xenakis has appeared in more than 4000 broadcast radio and television programs. He is an “Emmy” winner with numerous domestic and international awards. Dr. Xenakis has 13 Emmy nominations for programs ranging from heart disease to diabetes and has won one Emmy for his reporting on Radon. Dr. Xenakis helped break national news reports for CBS-TV on such topics as “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome” from Incline Village, Nevada and “The Use of Condoms in the Prophylaxis Against AIDS.” Dr. Xenakis also hosted a prime time “Live Town Meeting on President Clinton’s Proposal for National Health Insurance” for ABC-TV from Western Michigan University. In addition to his Emmy nominations and award, Dr. Xenakis has more than three-dozen national and international prestigious broadcasting awards including Gold Medals from the New York, Houston and San Francisco Film Festivals, the “The Sword of Hope” Award from the American Cancer Society and a “Mayoral Proclamation” by the City of Boston, “recognizing the achievements of this outstanding individual (Dr. Xenakis) to the quality of life in our city.”
Dr. Xenakis has published in peer review journals including The American Heart Journal, Journal of Physiology and IEEE Transactions of Biomedical Engineering. His written features have appeared in Pharmacy Times, Drug Store News and The Cortlandt Forum. The Wall Street Journal acclaimed his consumer book “Why Doesn’t My Funny Bone Make Me Laugh” (1994) as a book “everyone should have in their library”. Dr. Xenakis has also co-authored “The Mineral Miracle” (January 2006) and has his most recent book “When Good Medicines Do Bad Things to Healthy Bodies” (scheduled for publication and release in 2007).
Dr. Xenakis has collaborated or lectured with leading healthcare groups including The American Heart Association, The American College of Sports Medicine, The Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, The American Cancer Society, The American Medical Association, The Joslin Diabetes Center, The Framingham Heart Group, The Food and Drug Administration, The Environmental Protection Agency, The American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, The American Arthritis Foundation and The American College of Allergy and Immunology. Dr. Xenakis is a former medical correspondent, producer and editor for the CBS-TV affiliate in Boston, Massachusetts with syndication of his programming nationally. He also served as medical correspondent and health editor for ABC-TV’s nationally syndicated “Home Show” from Burbank, California; Medical Talk Show Host for WRKO radio, Boston; Medical Editor and Talk Show Host for Curt Gowdy Broadcasting and Program Host and Executive Producer of nationally syndicated radio features to 330 radio stations entitled “Health Your Best Friend.” Dr. Xenakis has hosted and executive produced health television programming for PBS, The Discovery Channel and CNN.
Dr. Xenakis is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire, Sargent College of Allied Health, Boston University School of Medicine and Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Xenakis has done advanced educational course work in environmental health, toxicology and biomechanics from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The University of Michigan and Tufts University. After earning his undergraduate degree in Chemistry, Dr. Xenakis has earned three advanced professional degrees including a Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Science in Applied Anatomy and Physiology and a Master of Science in Health Dynamics prior to completing an internship in Internal Medicine at University Hospital, Boston University Medical Center. Following his medicine internship, Dr. Xenakis earned a prestigious Harvard Masters in Public Health. As part of his post-graduate training, Dr. Xenakis has interned in the Corporate Preventive Medicine Departments of Alcoa, ATT, DuPont, Johnson and Johnson, Air Product, and Bethlehem Steel.
Dr. Xenakis has published multiple articles and abstracts from his Master’s Thesis, “Beat to Beat Analysis of Cardiovascular Response (Systolic Intervals) to Exercise” at The Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, Boston University School of Medicine and from his Doctoral Dissertation, “Human Muscle Fatigue and Motor Unit Recruitment” at Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical Center. Throughout his professional career Dr. Xenakis has focused on his interest in cardiovascular health from his undergraduate thesis researching “The First Cardiac Transplant” to post-graduate research at Lemuel Shattuck Hospital on the human heart’s response to sub-maximal exercise. Dr. Xenakis has continued his dedication to cardiovascular education through programming such as his (3) part series “Cardiac Comeback” in conjunction with experts from the “Framingham Heart Group” and his award winning videos on “Living with Diabetes” and “Say Goodbye to High Blood Pressure.”
Dr. Xenakis has sat as chair of a consumer health committee on silicone breast implants for the technical device section of the FDA. He has guest lectured at Harvard School of Public Health, Boston University School of Nursing, Sargent College of Allied Health, Northeastern School of Nursing, The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, and The Massachusetts College of Pharmacy.
Dr. Xenakis has served as a past faculty member for the AMA’s Annual Conference for Physicians on Television and Radio Health Reporting for nearly a decade and has lectured for numerous professional peer group organizations such as the Massachusetts Medical Society and the National Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. He has also served as a past consulting physician for the Boston Red Sox and served with the finish line medical team for the Boston Marathon for more than a decade.
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