Max Gomez
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Dr. Max Gomez is a native of Havana, Cuba and was the medical correspondent for NBC flagship television station WNBC in New York City. He was let go on November 15, 2006. He was the health and science editor for KYW-TV in Philadelphia from 1984 until 1991. Though not a medical doctor, he earned a PhD from Bowman Gray School of Medicine in 1978.
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Dr. Max Gomez joined NewsChannel 4 in July 1997, as the station's Health and Science Editor. His medical and health reports appear live Monday through Friday on "Live at Five," and he also contributes medical segments to the station's various newscasts.
Dr. Gomez has also filed multiple reports as part of his ongoing series on taking the "Ultimate Risk." Topics have included a look at a baby born with liver damage, who received a life-saving transplant from his own mother, as well as a report on two twin girls from Long Island, both suffering from Leukemia, who received bone marrow transplants from their seven-year old sister. In response to this report, Dr. Gomez received a national television journalism award from the Leukemia Society of America. Gomez is the also the co-author of The Prostate Health Program: A Guide to Preventing and Controlling Prostate Cancer which explains how an innovative program consisting of diet, exercise and lifestyle changes may prevent prostate cancer.
Gomez rejoined NewsChannel4 after serving as the medical reporter/health editor for WCBS-TV since 1994. He first worked at NBC4 in 1991 as the station's medical correspondent/health and science editor. Prior to that, he was the health and science editor for KYW-TV in Philadelphia ('84 -'91) and the health and science reporter/editor for WNEW-TV ('80 -'84). [Click here to find out more!]
The recipient of numerous journalism awards, Gomez has received four New York Emmy Awards, two Philadelphia Emmys, an UPI honor for "Best Documentary" for a 1986 report on AIDS and an "Excellence in Time of Crisis" award from New York City after September 11. In addition, he was named the American Health Foundation's Man of the Year and was a NASA Journalist-In-Space semi-finalist in 1986.
Dr. Gomez serves on the board of directors for the New York chapter of the American Heart Association, the Princeton Alumni Weekly and the Partnership for After School Education, a city-wide group of 1,200 community-based after school programs that help tutor and mentor children in New York City. He also mentors undergraduate journalism and medical students and physicians who are interested in medical journalism. Gomez is on the board of advisors for the Science Writers Fellowship at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA; the Hope and Heroes Children’s Cancer Fund at the Children’s Hospital of New York; and is a member of the honorary board of the Long Island chapter of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America. He has served as the Grand Marshal of the Multiple Sclerosis Walk for the past few years.
Gomez, a native of Havana, Cuba, is bilingual in Spanish and graduated cum laude from Princeton University in 1973. He received a Ph.D. from Bowman Gray School of Medicine in 1978 and was a N.I.H. Postdoctoral Fellow at New York's Rockefeller University ('78 - '80).
