Dr. Oz, Host of 'The Dr. Oz Show,' to Accept Honorary CLIO Healthcare Award Live at Nielsen's First-Ever CLIO Healthcare Awards Mixer

Dr. Oz, Host of 'The Dr. Oz Show,' to Accept Honorary CLIO Healthcare Award Live at Nielsen's First-Ever CLIO Healthcare Awards Mixer

-- Register Online at www.cliohealthcare.com To See Dr. Oz Accept the Honorary CLIO Healthcare Award on November 13th at Skyline Studios NYC --

NEW YORK, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The Nielsen Company, a leading global information and media company and the CLIO Awards, one of the world's most recognized international advertising and design competitions, today announced that Dr. Mehmet C. Oz, host of "The Dr. Oz Show" and featured health expert on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," will accept an Honorary CLIO Healthcare Award live at the first-ever CLIO Healthcare Awards. Online event registration is now open for the CLIO Healthcare Awards to be held on November 13 at Skyline Studios NYC, a contemporary, modern space near Highline Park, befitting an innovative awards show.

"We are honored to recognize Dr. Oz with the inaugural Honorary CLIO Healthcare Award," said Karl Vontz, Director of Events, AdweekMedia Events and CLIO Awards, The Nielsen Company. "The CLIO Healthcare Awards celebrate excellence in healthcare communications and Dr. Oz is a medical professional who embodies that standard of excellence. He is well known for his rare ability to communicate complex medical issues clearly to a mass audience, and has done so through nearly every media platform possible."

About Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.

Dr. Oz, host of "The Dr. Oz Show," is vice-chair and professor of surgery at Columbia University. He directs the Cardiovascular Institute and Complementary Medicine Program at New York Presbyterian Hospital. He has authored over 400 original publications, book chapters and medical books and has received several patents. He performs 250 heart operations annually. Dr. Oz was a featured health expert on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" for more than five seasons, spanning 55 episodes. He has also served as chief medical consultant to Discovery Communications, where his "Transplant!" series won both a Freddie and a Silver Telly award. In addition to numerous appearances on "Good Morning America," he has also appeared on the "Today" show, "Larry King Live," "The View," guest-hosted the "Charlie Rose" show and appeared on all the evening news broadcasts.

Dr. Oz authored five New York Times Best Sellers, including "You: The Owner's Manual," "You: The Smart Patient," "YOU: On a Diet," "YOU: Staying Young," "YOU: Being Beautiful," as well as the award-winning "Healing from the Heart." He has a regular column in Esquire magazine and O, The Oprah Magazine and his article "Retool, Reboot, and Rebuild" was awarded the 2009 National Magazine Award for Personal Service. Dr. Oz is also the host of a daily talk show on Sirius XM Radio's "Oprah Radio" on XM Channel 156 and Sirius Channel 195.

In addition to belonging to every major professional society for heart surgeons, Dr. Oz has been honored as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People (2008), Esquire magazine's 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century, a Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum (1999-2004), and "The Harvard 100 Most Influential Alumni" in the 02138 magazine. He also received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor (2008). He won the prestigious Gross Surgical Research Scholarship and received an honorary doctorate from Istanbul University. He was voted "The Best and Brightest" by Esquire Magazine, a "Doctor of the Year" by Hippocrates magazine, and "Healer of the Millennium" by Healthy Living magazine. Dr. Oz is annually elected as a highest quality physician by the Castle Connolly Guide, as well as other major ranking groups.

About The CLIO Healthcare Awards

The CLIO Healthcare Awards is an extension of The CLIO Awards, one of the world's most recognized awards competitions for advertising, design and interactive, which celebrated its 50th Anniversary in 2009. Healthcare accounts for more than one-third of the U.S. gross national product. It has become one of the most visible sectors of advertising, promotion and creative design in the last few years, particularly on TV and online, but is regulated differently and more stringently than traditional advertising and promotion.

The CLIO Healthcare Awards will be executed using the same rigorous standards and commitment to excellence as the CLIO Awards, but levels the playing field to qualify and judge this particular and massive industry sector more fairly and appropriately. The CLIO Awards and CLIO Healthcare Awards are produced by Nielsen Business Media, a part of The Nielsen Company, a global information and media company. For more information about the CLIO Healthcare Awards, go to www.CLIOHealthcare.com. Follow the CLIO Healthcare Awards on your favorite social networks: Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

About The Nielsen Company

The Nielsen Company is a global information and media company with leading market positions in marketing and consumer information, television and other media measurement, online intelligence, mobile measurement, trade shows and business publications (Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, Adweek). The privately held company is active in more than 100 countries, with headquarters in New York. For more information, please visit www.nielsen.com.

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