Kenneth Ro, MD

A double board-certified internal and emergency medicine physician with more than 35 years of clinical experience.

About

Kenneth Ro is a double board-certified internal and emergency medicine physician with more than 35 years of clinical experience. He is a physician with Wild Health, caring for adults across a broad range of life stages through individualized, prevention-focused care. Dr. Ro is the author of PRIME: How to Win the Second Half of Life, which explores how people can reclaim energy, identity, and purpose at any age. He believes aging is inevitable but decline is not, and that the choices we make today shape the life ahead. He created the Nova Oath™, his personal evolution of the Hippocratic Oath, as a commitment to courageous, compassionate care. Back in the Game Men remains an educational resource reflecting the ideas that helped shape his work. Connect with him on LinkedIn and learn more at KennethRoMD.com.

Books

PRIME: How to Win the Second Half of LifeView on Amazon

On The Podcast by KevinMD

You can’t stent a capillary: Why aging starts in your smallest blood vesselsMay 12, 2026
Why midlife men feel lost and exhaustedJan 4, 2026
35 years in the ER and the search for an honest lifeJul 31, 2025

Latest articles

Conditions and diseases

How the microvasculature drives the human aging process

Kenneth Ro, MD

March 16, 2026Mar 16, 2026

For years we have searched for the causes of aging inside the cell. Researchers study mitochondrial dysfunction, DNA damage, and the accumulation of senescent cells. But the real bottleneck in aging may not lie inside the cell at all. It may lie in the system that keeps those cells alive. During my years working in emergency medicine, I often saw patients whose blocked coronary arteries had been successfully opened during …

Physician voices

Why midlife men feel unanchored and exhausted

Kenneth Ro, MD

November 29, 2025Nov 29, 2025

Most midlife men don't walk into our clinics asking for help. They walk in asking for labs. They'll tell us they're "just tired," "not as sharp," or "feeling off." They'll blame work or age. They'll ask for hormone testing or…

Most midlife men don’t walk into our clinics asking for help. They walk in asking for labs.

They’ll tell us they’re “just tired,” “not as sharp,” or “feeling off.” They’ll blame work or age. They’ll ask for hormone testing or a quick fix. What they rarely say (and what most of us rarely ask about) is the deeper truth underneath the symptoms.

There is a silent crisis unfolding in midlife men, and …

Physician voices

The Nova Oath: a physician’s pledge to courageous and ethical care

Kenneth Ro, MD

June 23, 2025Jun 23, 2025

The Nova Oath is a modern physician's declaration of courageous care and ethical impact: I stand not merely as a technician of the body, but as a steward of life, a witness to pain, and a catalyst for healing. I…

The Nova Oath is a modern physician’s declaration of courageous care and ethical impact:

I stand not merely as a technician of the body, but as a steward of life, a witness to pain, and a catalyst for healing.

I vow:

To do more than avoid harm — I will do good: actively, intelligently, and compassionately.
To honor the trust placed in me not as entitlement, but as a sacred contract —

…

Physician voices

From survival to sovereignty: What 35 years in the ER taught me about identity, mortality, and redemption

Kenneth Ro, MD

June 20, 2025Jun 20, 2025

I've lived a full life. A hard one. A beautiful one. A complicated one. And now, at 61, I'm finally beginning to live an honest one. I was built in survival mode. Growing up as a Korean American boy in…

I’ve lived a full life. A hard one. A beautiful one. A complicated one. And now, at 61, I’m finally beginning to live an honest one.

I was built in survival mode. Growing up as a Korean American boy in Central Texas—often the only Asian face in the room—my earliest years taught me that difference could either be celebrated… or punished. At first, it was celebrated. I flourished. But a move …