AMERICAN TURKISH SOCIETY GALA 2018

MARTHA STEWART PRESENTS DR. OZ WITH OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD ON MAY 2

The American Turkish Society will honor Dr. Mehmet Oz at their 2018 Gala on Wednesday, May 2 at The Plaza in New York. Gala Chair, Martha Stewart presented Dr. Oz with The American Turkish Society's Outstanding Achievement Award for his significant contributions and moral commitment to improving the lives of so many in the United States.

Dr. Oz has won nine Daytime Emmy Awards for The Dr. Oz Show and is a professor of Surgery at Columbia University. He directs the Complementary Medicine Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and performs 50 heart operations annually. His research includes heart replacement surgery, minimally invasive surgery, alternative medicine and health care policy. He has authored over 400 original publications, book chapters, and medical books, and has received numerous patents. He also hosts the internationally syndicated radio broadcast Daily Dose. He writes a newspaper column syndicated by Hearst in 175 markets internationally, and has a magazine, The Good Life, with Hearst, which was voted the hottest new publication in 2014.

"We are very proud to celebrate the remarkable multi-profession, multi-faceted talents and accomplishments of our 2018 American Turkish Society (Amerikan Turk Cemiyeti) (@FollowTurkey) Gala Honoree Dr. Mehmet Oz (@DrOz), in the fields of traditional medicine, cardiac surgery, holistic medicine, healthy living, publishing best-selling books, and producing and starring in Emmy-award winning multi-media shows. Mehmet brings out the best in all of us with his consistent excellence in so many fields of endeavor, and makes us all try harder in those that we navigate in our daily lives"said The American Turkish Society's Chairman, Murat Koprulu.