Program Description

Gabe Mirkin is a doctor, author, former marathon runner, and talk show host. The Dr. Gabe Mirkin Show is fast-paced, lively, informative, and entertaining. Dr. Mirkin answers as many as 15 callers each hour and reports on the latest medical breakthroughs. Listeners respond to Dr. Mirkin’s extensive knowledge, real-world experience, and ability to explain complex concepts.

Credentials

• Practicing Physician for over 20 years
• Author of 16 Books including “The Sports Medicine Book,” the best-selling book in the field
• Provides a fast-paced, informative, and entertaining show coving health and wellness; designed to fit in everyone’s busy lives
• Non-political, non confrontational programming with relevant information that benefits and connotes good health

Columns

• The Mirkin Report, a newsletter on the latest medical breakthroughs and healthy lifestyle information, 1990-present
• Weekly syndicated column on sports medicine, Washington Times, 1994-present
• Weekly syndicated column on sports medicine, New York Times, 1978-1989
• American Running and Fitness, Contributing Editor, 1983-present
• Cross Country Journal, Contributing Editor, 1984-present
• Health Magazine, Contributing Editor, 1980-1988

Books

• The Sportsmedicine Book, Little, Brown and Company, 1978
• Dr. Gabe Mirkin's Fitness Clinic, Contemporary Books, 1986
• The Complete Sportsmedicine Book for Women, with Shangold, M.M., Simon and Schuster, 1985
• Women and Exercise: Physiology and Sports Medicine, with Shangold, M.M., F.A. Davis Company, 1988
• The 20/30 Fat and Fiber Diet Plan, with Barry Fox and Diana Rich Mirkin, Harper Resource, 1998

Television

• Weekly show on Fox Noon News in Washington, D.C. 1995-1996.
  Host of "Calling Dr. Mirkin" on The Learning Channel, Cable TV (monthly show on health, fitness and nutrition), 1991-1992
• Weekly appearance on "House Party", a one-hour television program syndicated nationally by NBC Television, 1990
• Weekly spot on fitness for "P.M. Magazine" on WDVM-TV, Washington, D.C., 1979

Honors & Awards

• Founder, Run for Your Life program, 1963
• Sports Medicine Subcommittee of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland, 1989
• Hall of Fame of the Road Runners Club of America, elected 1983; fewer than 100 people have received this honor
• 1985 Runner's World All-Star Team Award for Sports Medicine
• 1990 Healthy American Fitness Leaders Award, presented by the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce, the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Allstate Insurance
• Member, Board of Examiners for The American Board of Sports Medicine, Inc., 1991-present

Special Interests

• Dr. Mirkin is a practicing physician who sees patients every day at his office in Kensington, Maryland.
• He is board-certified in four specialties: Allergy and Immunology, Sports Medicine, Pediatrics and Pediatric Immunology.
• He is a long distance runner
• Has served as a Teaching Fellow at Johns Hopkins Medical School, Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, and Associate Clinical Professor in Pediatrics at the Georgetown University School of Medicine.

Program Schedule

Live: Monday-Friday 4pm-7pm (ET)
Best of: Saturdays and Sundays 2pm-4pm (ET)