David Katz

David Katz

Founding Director, Yale University’s Prevention Research Center

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 of Yale University's Prevention Research Center, Director and founder of the Integrative Medicine Center at Griffin Hospital 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 holds five U.S. patents and has published over 200 scientific papers, numerous textbook chapters, 15 books to date, and well over a thousand newspaper columns and blog posts.

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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.
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Weight management expert David L. Katz criticizes technological advances that have created lifestyles at odds with physical activity and healthy diets.
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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.
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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.
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Health expert David L. Katz discusses the complexity of nutrition and how he became interested in preventative medicine.