Dr. Max Gomez, Ph. D. is a native of Havana, Cuba and was the medical correspondent/senior health editor for the NBC flagship television station WNBC in New York City.[1] He delivered segments on health, science and medicine on the 5pm news. Before that he was the health and science editor for KYW-TV in Philadelphia from 1984 until 1991. In July 2007, "Dr. Max", as he is known, signed as a freelance medical reporter for WCBS-TV in New York.
He is the winner of six New York Emmy Awards, and two Philadelphia Emmy awards.[2] In addition to his broadcast work, Gomez serves on the Advisory Board of HealthCorps.
He graduated cum laude from Princeton University, with a Ph.D. from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He was also a NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at New York's Rockefeller University. Dr. Gomez resides in New York City.