Marc Siegel Biography
Marc Siegel, born Marc K. Siegel and commonly known as Dr. Marc Siegel, is a clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, a practicing internist, and the medical director of SiriusXM’s Doctor Radio. Since being hired as a medical contributor by Fox News in 2008, he has worked for the network as an analyst and a reporter and columnist for FoxNews.com
Marc Siegel Age
Siegel is 65 years old as of 2022. He was born on June 15, 1956, in New York, United States. He celebrates his birthday on June 15th every year.
Marc Siegel Height
Siegel stands at a height of 5 ft 6 in (Approx. 1.67 m).
Marc Siegel Family
Siegel was born and raised in New York. Less information is available regarding his parents or siblings if he has any. But we will keep you posted once there is any relevant news available. On a show, “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” he revealed that his 96-year-old father was recently frail and had trouble breathing, but he healed after being given an anti-malaria medicine as well as antibiotics.
Marc Siegel Wife
Siegel is happily married to the love of his life, Ludmilla Luda Siegel. Luda is a physician and neurologist. They are blessed with three children; two of them called, Joshua Siegel and Samuel Siegel.
Marc Siegel Net worth
Siegel has an estimated net worth of $15 million which he has earned through her career as a journalist.
Marc Siegel Salary
Siegel earns an average of between $50,561 to $86,938 a year.
Marc Siegel Education
Siegel graduated from East Meadow High School. He later joined Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, from 1974 to 1978. In 1985, he graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo with a Doctor of Medicine degree. and later on, he went on finishing his Internal Medicine residency at New York University Medical Center in 1988.
Marc Siegel Career
Siegel is a clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center and a practicing internist. He is the medical director of SiriusXM’s Doctor Radio. Dr. Siegel spoke with the directors of the Departments of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the American Medical Association about the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr. Siegel has been a medical contributor for Fox News since 2008, when he was hired. He has worked for the network as an analyst, as well as for FoxNews.com as a reporter and writer. President Donald Trump, former President George W. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, two Health and Human Services secretaries, US Senators, and the first exclusive interview with a Boston marathon bombing survivor are among the notable interviewees.
In February 2020, he visited Nebraska Medicine’s National Quarantine Unit to interview a team of scientists and the Diamond Princess passengers who had contracted COVID-19, and to warn the world about the impending pandemic. Marc is a contributor to USA Today’s board of contributors. He writes for FoxNews.com, The Hill, and the Wall Street Journal as a columnist.
For six years, he wrote “The Unreal World,” a weekly piece for the Los Angeles Times that analyzed the medical correctness of TV and movies. Prior to that, he contributed a weekly medical news column to the health section of the New York Daily News. Since being hired as a medical contributor by Fox News in 2008, he has worked for the network as an analyst, and a reporter and columnist for FoxNews.com.
Marc Siegel COVID-19 pandemic
During the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, Siegel appeared often in conservative media, pushing medical advice that ran counter to CDC recommendations. COVID-19 “should be equated to the flu,” Siegel asserted inaccurately on Fox News’ Hannity in March 2020. Siegel’s statement was identified as part of a larger set of COVID-19 misinformation circulating in conservative media by Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Dolores Albarracn, who published their findings in the peer-reviewed Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review in April 2020. The study found that Americans who relied on Fox News and other right-wing sources for news were more likely to credit conspiracy theories or baseless rumors than Americans who relied on mainstream sources.
Marc Siegel Affordable Care Act
President Barack Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), a health-care reform bill, was attacked by Siegel. In 2017, Siegel published an op-ed in the New York Times criticizing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its essential health benefits provision (which he described as “an overstuffed prix fixe meal filled with benefits like maternity and mental health coverage”) while applauding Republican legislation to repeal the ACA.
Host of Doctor Radio Reports on SiriusXM
Since March 2020, Siegel has hosted the SiriusXM radio show Doctor Radio Reports twice a week, focused on the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact and the success of public health initiatives to combat it.
Marc Siegel Books
He is an author of 6 books including;
- COVID: The Politics of Fear and the Power of Science
- False Alarm: the Truth about the Epidemic of Fear
- Bird Flu: Everything You Need to Know about the Next Pandemic
- Swine Flu: the New Pandemic
- Bellevue.
Marc Siegel Fox News
Siegel works at Fox News alongside other Fox News anchors who include;
- Jamie Colby
- Byron York
- Trey Yingst
- Kiron Skinner
- Dan Springer
- Karl Rove
- Katie Pavlich
- Nicole Saphier
- Austin Westfall
- Ashley Strohmier
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