Dr. Max Gomez is an award-winning broadcast journalist and a medical reporter for WCBS-TV. He has received seven New York Emmy Awards, two Philadelphia Emmys, a UPI honor for Best Documentary for a report on AIDS, and an Excellence in Time of Crisis Award from New York City after September 11. He was named the American Health Foundation’s Man of the Year and was a NASA Journalist-In-Space semi-finalist in 1986.

Previously with WNBC-TV, Dr. Gomez joined the network in 1997 after serving as the medical reporter/health editor for WCBS-TV from 1994 to 1997. Prior to that, he was the health and science editor for KYW-TV in Philadelphia and the health and science reporter/editor for WNEW-TV.

A native of Havana, Cuba, Dr. Gomez graduated cum laude from Princeton University, with a PhD from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He was also an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at New York’s Rockefeller University.

You can learn more about Dr. Gomez at NewYork.CBSLocal.com/personality/dr-max-gomez. And watch his “Max Minutes” at NewYork.CBSLocal.com/tag/max-minute.