Dr. Max Gomez is a native of Havana, Cuba, and was the medical correspondent/senior health editor for the NBC flagship television station WNBC in New York City. He delivered segments on health, science and medicine on the 5 pm news. Before that he was the health and science editor for KYW-TV in Philadelphia from 1984 until 1991. In July 2007, "Dr. Max", as he is known, signed as a freelance medical reporter for WCBS-TV in New York. He is the winner of six New York Emmy Awards and two Philadelphia Emmy awards. In addition to his broadcast work, Gomez serves on the Advisory Board of HealthCorps. He graduated cum laude from Princeton University and earned a Ph.D. from the Wake Forest School of Medicine. He was a NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at New York's Rockefeller University. Dr. Gomez resides in New York City.