About Dr. Myron Wentz
Dave Wentz, author of The Healthy Home: Simple Truths to Protect
Your Family From Hidden Household Dangers, is the Chief Executive
Officer of USANA Health Sciences, a state-of-the-art manufacturer of
nutritional supplements and health products. He received a
Bachelor's degree in bioengineering from the University of California,
San Diego. He lives with his wife, Renee, and son, Andrew, in Salt Lake
City, Utah.
Dr. Myron Wentz, author of The Healthy Home: Simple
Truths to Protect Your Family From Hidden Household Dangers, holds
a Ph.D. in microbiology with a specialty in immunology from the
University of Utah. He founded Gull Laboratories in 1974 and
developed the first commercially available diagnostic test for the
Epstein-Barr virus. Later he founded USANA Health Sciences and
the Sanoviv Medical Institute. Honored in June 2007 with the
Albert Einstein Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Life Sciences,
he is the author of A Mouth Full of Poison and Invisible
Miracles.
In recent years, Dr. Wentz has turned his attention to charitable
and humanitarian concerns, founding the Wentz Medical Centre and
Laboratory in Uganda and the Wentz Medical Centre in Cambodia, serving
children orphaned by diseases such as malaria and HIV. In 2006, Dr.
Wentz, was a recipient of the Children's Champion Award, presented by
the Children's Hunger Fund.
For more information, view Myron Wentz's Web site.