Ron Rothenberg

As a pioneer in the field of Preventive and Regenerative Medicine, Ron Rothenberg, M.D., (age 65) was among the first group of physicians to be recognized for his expertise in this rapidly emerging field.  The 10th M.D. in the world to become fully board certified in by the American Board of Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine, Ron Rothenberg, MD founded California HealthSpan Institute in Encinitas, California in 1998 with a commitment to transform our understanding of and finding treatment for aging as a disease. Dr. Rothenberg is dedicated to the belief that the process of physical aging can be slowed, stopped, or even reversed through existing medical and scientific interventions. In this way heath, fitness and peak performance can be optimized. Challenging traditional medicine’s approach, California HealthSpan Institute’s mission is to create a paradigm shift in the way we view medicine and aging and declining fitness: treat the cause. California HealthSpan now treats and designs custom programs for patients in California and worldwide. (From every continent except Antarctica)Dr. Rothenberg has always challenged the medical field’s ability to embrace new information and adapt practices accordingly. Upon graduating from Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, in 1970, Dr. Rothenberg performed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center from 1973-1975. At the time, the specialty of Emergency Medicine (like Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine) was not widely recognized by the medical community. In fact, it was dismissed by most as unnecessary. Dr. Rothenberg, however, was passionate about the field, and went on to teach and practice Emergency Medicine and is a former Full Clinical Professor of Preventive and Family Medicine at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. In addition to his work in the field of Anti-Aging and Regenerative medicine, Dr. Rothenberg remains an enthusiastic Attending Physician and at Scripps Memorial Hospital in Encinitas, California. What prompted Ron Rothenberg to expand his view of conventional medicine to embrace the theory that the aging process can be stopped or reversed? As an Emergency physician for over 20 years, Dr. Rothenberg saw the most severe complications of the aging process on a daily basis: heart attacks, strokes, cancer, dementia, type II diabetes, osteoporosis and many other disease processes that were a result of the decline in immune system function. Dr. Rothenberg realized that all of the illnesses and diseases he was treating were a complication of the same process – aging. Approaching 50, Dr. Rothenberg considered himself to be in excellent health but he began noticing decline in his own physical function. Unlike many men his age, he was surfing regularly, working-out, and following what he believed to be a healthy diet but needed something else to improve and optimize.Dr. Rothenberg began to explore the causes of the aging process. He studied insulin resistance, glycation, telomere loss, the Zone diet, antioxidants and free radicals, and most importantly: the theory that we age because our hormones decline. Therefore, balanced bio-identical hormone replacement therapy became yet another area of discovery for Dr. Rothenberg.After embarking on his personal anti-aging program there were marked improvements in cognitive function, energy, libido, and sense of well-being. As fellow physicians noticed the changes and wanted to experience the same benefits for themselves, his first patients in Anti-Aging Medicine emerged. By creating customized programs for his patients, dramatic positive results followed. Dr. Rothenberg became convinced that Preventive and Regenerative Medicine would be the foundation of medicine in the 21st Century.Around 2004, Dr. Rothenberg realized that the next paradigm shift in medicine would be through use of stem cells.  California HealthSpan Institute became the first collection center for Neostem where healthy people could collect and bank their own adult stem cells for future use.  As a member of the Neostem Medical Advisory Board Dr. Rothenberg regularly meets with world leaders in the stem cell field.  Current treatment possibilities are expanding and future treatments are exciting.Dr. Rothenberg has educated over 25,000 physicians who have attended his continuing education seminars.  As the creator and director of the Postgraduate Institute for Primary and Emergency Physicians at University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine he helped create the specialty of Emergency Medicine by training physicians as this field emerged.  Over the past 10 years he lectured worldwide on Preventive and Regenerative Medicine, Hormone Optimization and Stem Cells.