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He's an American citizen since he's born in the US and he earned his Turkish citizenship after completing the mandatory military service which is required for all healthy Turkish men once they are 19 years old. This also means if there was a war before 2001 (before he turned 41), he could have been called for duty.

Received his undergraduate degree (BS) in biology from Harvard University (1982).

Is the Irving Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Columbia University.

Received his dual degrees (MD and MBA) from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Wharton Business School (1986).

Is Turkish-American.

His area of expertise is Thoracic surgery.

Has received several patents, as well as writing more than 350 original publications, book chapters, abstracts and books.

Became a grandfather for the second time when his daughter Daphne Oz gave birth to a boy named Jovan Jovanovic Jr. on October 21, 2015.

Became a grandfather for the first time when his daughter Daphne Oz gave birth to a girl named Philomena Bijou Jovanovic on February 26, 2014.

Became a grandfather for the fourth time when his daughter Daphne Oz gave birth to a girl named Domenica Celine Jovanovic on December 4, 2017.

Alumnus of Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Delaware.

Director of the Heart Assist Device program at New York-Presbyterian Medical Center.

Founder of the Complementary Medicine Program at New York-Presbyterian Medical Center.

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 6201 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 11, 2022.

Currently resides in Cliffside Park, New Jersey. (April 2010)

He attended the funeral of Joan Rivers, after the comedienne passed away on September 7, 2014.

Became a grandfather for the third time when his daughter Daphne Oz gave birth to a girl named Giovanna Ines Jovanovic on August 14, 2019.

His daughter, Daphne Oz, graduated from Dwight-Englewood School (2004).

Son-in-law of Dr. Gerald Lemole.

Won the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania in 2022. He is the first Muslim nominated for the U.S. Senate by a major party.