Experts
David Katz
Director, Yale University’s Prevention Research Center
The Yale University Director worries that consumers need a PhD to understand what they’re eating. He proposes simplifying food labels so everyone can be a nutritional expert. Read More
A conversation with Director of Yale University’s Prevention Research Center. Read More
David L. Katz insists access to healthcare is a basic human right and proposes reforms to incentivize preventative care. Read More
When the Atkins Diet took off into the stratosphere, every supermarket stocked low-carb foods. Nutrition expert David L. Katz wants to achieve the same thing with healthy foods generally. Read More
The weight management expert developed a school program, and released it into the public domain, called Activity Burst in the Classroom (ABC) that helps restless children release their energies. Read More
David L. Katz counsels overweight and obese people to be healthy by discussing “medical absolution”--you are partly responsible for your excess weight, but not to blame. Read More
Starting with African American churches and community leaders in Connecticut, medical expert David L. Katz wants to put the findings of the Diabetes Prevention Program to work in every town in America. Read More
When it comes to preventing chronic disease, the gap between knowledge and action belies the notion that knowledge is power, according to health expert David L. Katz. Read More
Quoting the Spiderman movie--“with great power comes great responsibility”--David L. Katz implores health professions to empower people before requesting they take responsibility for their well being. Read More
Weight management expert David L. Katz criticizes technological advances that have created lifestyles at odds with physical activity and healthy diets. Read More
Health expert David L. Katz discusses the complexity of nutrition and how he became interested in preventative medicine. Read More
About David Katz
David Katz MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP is an authority on nutrition, weight management, and the prevention of chronic disease, and a leader in integrative medicine and patient-centered care. He is a board certified specialist in both Internal Medicine, and Preventive Medicine/Public Health, and Associate Professor (adjunct) in Public Health Practice at the Yale University School of Medicine.
Katz is the Director and founder (1998) of Yale University's Prevention Research Center, Director and founder of the Integrative Medicine Center at Griffin Hospital (2000) in Derby, CT, and founder and president of the non-profit Turn the Tide Foundation. He was formerly the Director of Medical Studies in Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine for eight years.
Katz has published over 100 scientific papers, numerous textbook chapters, nearly a thousand newspaper columns, and 12 books to date.