Robert J. Rowen, MD is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine. He is board certified in both family medicine and emergency medicine, and has served on Alaska's State Medical Board.

Dr. Rowen is known as "The Father of Medical Freedom" for pioneering the nation's first statutory protection for alternative medicine in 1990. Today, he lives in northern California where he is in private practice with his wife, Terri Su, MD.