Spencer David Kobren is the Founder and President of the American Hair Loss Association, the only national, non-profit membership organization dedicated to educating the public, healthcare professionals, and the mainstream media about the emotionally devastating disease of hair loss.

Mr. Kobren is considered the nation's most prominent and effective hair loss consumer/patient advocate. He's the author of the ground breaking International best seller, The Bald Truth: The First Complete Guide to Preventing and Treating Hair Loss. His second book, The Truth About Women's Hair Loss, has forever changed the way medicine and society looks at this neglected epidemic.

Kobren's work was the focus of the Discovery Channel documentary The Bald Truth and he also serves as the Director of Consumer/Patient affairs for The International Alliance of Hair Restoration Surgeons

After years of researching hair loss and finally overcoming the early stages of his own male pattern baldness, he has dedicated himself to helping others prevent and treat hair loss and navigate safely though the treacherous hair loss field As a consumer advocate, he consults on issues of patient and consumer rights in this unregulated industry.

Kobren and his work have been featured in articles in many publications, including GQ, The Wall Street Journal, Men's Health, Men's Journal, Newsday, The New York Times and The Washington Post . Kobren has been interviewed by local and national affiliates of ABC News, The Fox News Organization, CBS News and the CBC. Most recently he has been interviewed for ABC News "20/20" and "Good Morning America." Mr. Kobren has had a chapter dedicated to his work in New York Post columnist Gersh Kuntzman's Book, Hair! Mankind's Historic Quest to End Baldness .

" Until the day comes when we can retire alopecia, due to the success of modern genetic medicine, Spencer David Kobren is our voice of truth in the madness of hair loss and the hair loss industry."

-Angela M. Christiano, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Dermatology and Genetics and Development Columbia University