Mark J. Trager, M.D.

Chief Enhancement Officer (CEO) of ChangeWell, Inc.

Mark J. Tager, MD is one of the country’s leading healthcare communicators. He started his career as Director of Health Promotion for Kaiser Permanente in Oregon where he produced a weekly radio show and wrote a wellness column for The Oregon Journal and Seattle Times. He authored his first (of ten, soon eleven) books in 1977 entitled Whole Person Healthcare advocating an integrative approach to medicine. Dr. Tager was the producer of an early cable health series sponsored by Bristol Myers Squibb entitled The Wellness Lifestyle. After leaving Oregon, he went on to found a consumer health company that he ran for ten years prior to its acquisition by Times Mirror’s Mosby Health division, at the time the leading health science publisher in the United States. Dr. Tager turned over copyright to more than 200 education videos, books, workbooks and posters that he produced.

Dr.Tager is currently Chief Enhancement Officer (CEO) of ChangeWell, Inc. His consulting clients have included Ambra Biosciences, Angiocrine, Aethern, Ajinomoto, Allergan, American River Nutrition, Almirall, BioCorrx, Cleveland Heart Lab, Designs for Health, electroCore, EcoNugenics, Life Length, Sovereign Laboratories, HydraFacial, Galderma, Senté, Stemedica, Novozymes, Nutritional Wellness, Orthomolecular Products, Eclipse Medical, Viora, Viracity, Fagron Genetics, BodyLogicMD, KiHealth, Calocurb, The American Nutrition Association and The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. He has directed the practice management programs for Miami Cosmetic Surgery and A4M, and currently serves as an advisor for Informa Markets’ THE Aesthetic Show and AMWC North America where he created the Personalized Nutrition Center.

Dr. Tager draws upon his expertise in aesthetic, integrative and regenerative medicine as well as medical devices. He was the founding marketing VP for Reliant Technologies where he launched the Fraxel® laser, and then went on to become CMO for Syneron where he launched the Velashape II. Both devices were among the most successful launches in the field of aesthetics. He helped launch Senté cosmeceuticals. He served as Director of Strategic Initiatives for The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. He has created a 40-hr, online CME course in Personalized Nutrition for Practitioners for the American Nutrition Association as well as a 10-hour online professional course on “Inside Skin Beauty”.  Along with Dr. Peter Staats, Dr Tager co-founded the non-profit Vagus Nerve Society (vnsociety.org), an international organization dedicated to educating clinicians from all disciplines on ways to harness the power of the parasympathetic nervous system. He is completing the production of the Society’s online training and certification company. He is extremely passionate about how complementary approaches using nutraceuticals and devices for health and well-being. In addition, Dr. Tager is the Executive Director of a new non-profit, The Root Cause Project (website in development) whose mission it is to produce documentary films that focus on the innate power of the body to heal itself.

Known for his dynamic speaking and teaching Dr. Tager has presented at multiple national and international conferences including: A4M (where he moderated the annual meeting for several years), Integrative Health Symposium, Integrative Dermatology Symposium, AMWC Miami and Monaco, FACE onference London, Beauty Boss, The Multispecialty Aesthetic Conference, AAFPRS, Vegas Cosmetic Surgery, THE Aesthetic Show, and IMCAS.

Dr. Tager specializes in helping companies clarify, organize, and then disseminate their messages. The approach is both strategic and tactical, often resulting in video education and training programs. He has created multiple online training programs for companies targeted at clinicians and/or consumers. He takes complicated concepts and makes them easily understandable. (Examples available upon request).

He serves as faculty of Duke Integrative Medicine and is on the Scientific Advisory Board for Enzymedica, Sovereign Laboratories, and an advisor for Designs for Health.

He has authored or co-authored eleven books including: Feed Your Skin Right: Your Personalized Nutrition Plan for Radiant Beauty, Cash-Pay Healthcare: How to Start, Grow & Perfect Your Business (with Stewart Gandolf), and Enhance Your Presence: The Path to Personal Power, Professional Influence, and Business Success (with Robert John Hughes) and Transforming Stress Into Power. He has produced dozens of educational videos and training programs. He obtained his medical degree from Duke University and trained in Family Practice at the University of Oregon Health Science Center.