Dean Edell

Dean Edell (born 26 March 1941) is an American physician and broadcaster who hosted the Dr. Dean Edell radio program, a syndicated radio talk show which aired live from 1979 until December 10, 2010. He was also nationally syndicated in television as a medical news reporter and host of his own television shows including NBC's Dr. Dean.

Born in Newark, New Jersey on 26 March 1941, Edell's father was a vitamin manufacturer in the 1940s and 50s. Edell studied zoology at Cornell University and earned his M.D. from Cornell University Medical School in 1967. Edell later opened a private ophthalmology practice in San Diego, California and acted as an instructor of Anatomy and a clinical instructor at the University of California, San Diego. Edell soon quit medical practice altogether in 1973. . He later said that he "... didn't like medicine originally...I kind of found the thing I love the most, which is really the information and communicating the information".

He spent the next several years experimenting with lifestyles that included buying and selling antiques, acting as a silversmith and goldsmith,organic farming, painting, living in a 1950s-vintage bus and engaging in a self-described hand-to-mouth existence that included scavenging for food thrown out by grocery stores. During this period he describes himself as a hippie.

In the late 1970s, Edell worked for an antique auction gallery and also had a jewelry and antique shop of his own in Sacramento, California. To supplement his income he served as medical director of the County Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Center in Sacramento, California. A co-worker introduced Edell to the owner of country music station KRAK and suggested Edell try doing a talk show. He did 6 call in-shows for that station in 1978. His radio career began. He moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1980, and currently lives in rural Mendocino County.

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