Dr. Gomez was deeply loved and respected in our newsroom, by medical professionals he worked with, patients who shared their stories with him and our viewers.
Over the course of his career, Dr. Gomez received seven New York Emmy Awards, two Philadelphia Emmys, a UPI honor for Best Documentary for a report on AIDS, and an Excellence in Time of Crisis Award from New York City after 9/11.
Dr. Gomez received national television journalism awards from The Marfan Foundation and the Leukemia Society of America for his report on two twin girls from Long Island, suffering from Leukemia, who got bone marrow transplants from their 7-year-old sister. He was named the American Health Foundation's Man of the Year and was a NASA Journalist-In-Space semi-finalist in 1986.
Dr. Gomez served on the national board of directors for the American Heart Association, the Princeton Alumni Weekly and the Partnership for Afterschool Education. He also mentored undergraduate journalism and medical students and physicians interested in medical journalism.He graduated cum laude from Princeton University, with a Ph.D. from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at New York's Rockefeller University.