1. Carlon M Colker was born on June 21,1965 and is an American physician and celebrity doctor, whose practice specialties include internal medicine, integrative medicine, medical nutrition and applied nutritional science, sports medicine, human performance, injury rehabilitation, and longevity medicine.
Carlon Colker has appeared on such shows as The View, The Today Show, ESPN Outside the Lines, NBC's Health Segment, Court TV, Bloomberg TV, and ABC's World News Tonight, offering medical advice.
Carlon Colker is a contributing editor and columnist in the health and fitness press for such popular publications as Muscle and Fitness, Muscular Development, Flex, and Ironman magazines.
Carlon Colker's father, Edward Colker, was a graduate of New York University, a lithographer, a maker of rare hand-bound books, and a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient.
Carlon Colker's mother, Elaine Galen, was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and an abstract painter.
Carlon Colker received a baccalaureate degree in June 1988 from Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York.
Carlon Colker received his medical degree in May 1993 from Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University.
In 1996, Carlon Colker was employed first at Park Avenue Medical Nutrition and then later that year, by Affiliated Physicians, both located in New York City.
Carlon Colker is an affiliate of Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Carlon Colker serves as a faculty member at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City.
In 2006, Carlon Colker began training and coaching UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton "Rampage" Jackson.
In 2008, former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton "Rampage" Jackson enlisted Carlon Colker's help in his preparation for UFC 92.
Carlon Colker was the longtime personal physician, cornerman, and training partner for former UFC middleweight Champion Frank Shamrock, under which Carlon Colker is a Shamrock Instructor.
In May 2007, Sports Illustrated Senior Staff Writer Jon Werthheimm interviewed and quoted Carlon Colker as claiming that MMA athletes are "the best athletes in sports".
In 2008 preparation for UFC 83 Carlon Colker treated former 2x UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre in preparation for his successful rematch against Matt Serra in which he reclaimed the championship.
In May 2008, for the Children's Aid Society and Boys and Girls Club of America, "Former Supermodel and mother of three, Christie Brinkley, and celebrity physician Dr Carlon Colker" were teamed up by Microsoft as spokesmen "to promote healthy and active lifestyles for children and families".
In October 2010, Carlon Colker narrated the award-winning documentary Lunch, a film by Avis Richards, which explored the effects of the National School Lunch Program on America's children in schools in order to shed light on the current situation through candid interviews with doctors, teachers, farmers and various specialists.
In June 2012, Carlon Colker resigned his position and became a member of the company's scientific advisory board.
In 2008, it was announced that Carlon Colker would be serving on the advisory board of the multi-level marketing company LifeVantage.
In 2005, Carlon Colker was named as head of the scientific advisory board of the dietary supplement company Health Sciences Group, and in 2006 the company announced that Carlon Colker would be assisting in the formulation of the supplement product Sequestrol.
Carlon Colker was a product developer and spokesperson for the dietary supplement Lipistat, marketed by ITV Ventures.
In December 2012, working with the Taylor Hooton Foundation to dissuade performance-enhancing drug abuse among school-age athletes, Carlon Colker publicly stated his position on the abuse of performance-enhancing drugs and how he is firmly against it.
In 2013, after more than a decade working with tennis legend, career grand slam and Olympic gold medalist Andre Agassi, Carlon Colker reunited with Agassi to promote Agassi's BILT line of exercise equipment, stating about Carlon Colker "You've seen it from the beginning you've been there in the trenches when I was out there on the court".
Carlon Colker served under the Department of Justice in the OJJDP law enforcement cyber unit ICAC Task Force Program preventing, interdicting, and investigating ICAC offenses.
Carlon Colker is a clinical researcher with a variety of scientific publications to his credit, though his published clinical research on ephedra as a natural weight-loss aide is the most widely referenced and thus received the most media attention and controversy.
Grant's claim against Carlon Colker was in part that she was provided vitamins and infusions of which the contents were intentionally undisclosed to her by Carlon Colker and his staff despite her supposed repeated attempts to inquire as to what she was being given.
Carlon Colker has generated controversy regarding his public comments and research on the safety of ephedra-based dietary supplements.
Carlon Colker was the lead researcher responsible for studies and product development on behalf of supplement manufacturers such as Cytodyne Technologies, Muscletech Research and Development, and Metabolife International, manufacturers of the ephedra-based weight loss pills Xenadrine RFA-1, Hydroxycut, and Metabolife 365, respectively.
Carlon Colker downplayed the dangers of ephedra, claiming that it "is not a health risk for most people".
Carlon Colker had been enlisted by Cytodyne to conduct a clinical study on the effectiveness of Xenadrine RFA-1, and upon the study's completion, the company paid Carlon Colker to make conference appearances.
In July 2003, Carlon Colker was called to testify before a United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce investigating deaths and adverse events stemming from ephedra supplements for which Carlon Colker had been involved in researching and marketing.
In 2008, Carlon Colker made news headlines after advising actor Jeremy Piven to prematurely withdraw from David Mamet's Broadway play Speed-the-Plow due to concerns of alleged mercury poisoning from consuming excessive amounts of sushi and Chinese herbal supplement products.
In February 2011, Carlon Colker sold the marketing rights and trademarks for MYO-T12 to MYOS for $1.15 million and entered into a three-year employment agreement to serve as the company's Chief Medical Officer and Executive vice-president, resigning in 2012 to serve as a scientific advisor for the company in exchange for 300,000 shares of common stock.