Keith Ablow - Television and Writing Career

Television and Writing Career

Ablow has an extensive relationship with the entertainment industry. As a medical student, he became medical editor and producer for Lifetime Medical Television in New York City and Los Angeles from 1985-1989. He was the first Arthur Ulene, MD Fellow at Lifetime Medical Television. He was selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science as a Fellow, as well, and worked under their direction as a reporter and writer at Newsweek. The American Medical Association awarded him its Jerry Pettis Award for Excellence in Communicating Science to the Public. He authored his first book, Medical School: Getting In, Staying In, Staying Human in 1987. In 2003 he created and was the Executive Producer of the CBS pilot, Expert Witness, starring Matthew Modine.

Ablow has written hundreds of columns/articles for publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, USA Today, Newsweek, The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Herald and FoxNews.com.

He has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, the Today Show, The Howard Stern Show, Good Morning America, the CBS "Early Show," "Larry King," The Tyra Banks Show, Nancy Grace (CNN) program), Catherine Crier Live, The Dr. Oz Show, "Glenn Beck," "Fox & Friends," "Geraldo," "Imus," "Montel," "Sally Jesse," "Maury Povich," "Inside Edition," "Showbiz Tonight," "Doctor's Radio," and The O'Reilly Factor. He has been interviewed by Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer, Matt Lauer, Meredith Vieira and many other print, television and radio journalists.

From June 2006 through September 2007, Ablow was host and executive producer of his own national daily talk show, The Dr. Keith Ablow Show, syndicated by Warner Bros. On October 17, 2006 he obtained an exclusive interview with John Mark Karr, the man who falsely confessed to being the murderer of beauty pageant child star JonBenet Ramsey. After interviewing Karr, Ablow asserted he was dealing with a "textbook case of pedophilia" and that Karr would continue to pose a threat to society once free.

Following his show's cancellation, Ablow has been a contributing editor for Good Housekeeping Magazine and Men's Fitness, and a columnist for the New York Post. He also contributes commentary and analysis for the Fox News Channel.

Ablow is the author of six psychological fiction thrillers featuring Frank Clevenger, a forensic psychiatrist dedicated to a search for truth, no matter where it leads. More than one of the titles was a USA Today bestseller.

Ablow's true crime book, Inside the Mind of Scott Peterson, was a New York Times bestseller.

In 2007, Ablow published a prescriptive self-help book, Living the Truth: Transform Your Life Through the Power of Insight and Honesty in conjunction with a self-help web community.

Ablow's 2011 book, The 7, co-authored by Glenn Beck, was released in January 2011 and was a New York Times bestseller. In November, St. Martin's Press published a second Ablow book, Inside the Mind of Casey Anthony: A Psychological Portrait.

During May, 2011 Ablow hosted a week of radio broadcasts for Boston's WTKK radio, 96.9 FM. He has continued as a guest host. He appears frequently as an expert on psychiatry on the Dr. Oz Show.

Ablow has also written widely-circulated columns on FoxNews.com addressing treatment strategies for major depression, anxiety disorders and substance abuse disorders.

Ablow has written 15 books, some published by the American Psychiatric Association, been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and written for Psychiatric Times magazine.