David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP, FACLM is a specialist in Internal Medicine, Preventive
Medicine/Public Health, and Lifestyle Medicine, with particular expertise in nutrition.
He earned his BA at Dartmouth College (1984); his MD at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
(1988); and his MPH from the Yale University School of Public Health (1993). He completed
sequential residency training and board certification in Internal Medicine (1991) and Preventive
Medicine/Public Health (1993).

Katz is the founder and former director of Yale University’s Yale-Griffin Prevention Research
Center (1998-2019), where he secured and managed roughly $40M in research funding. He is Past
President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine; Founder of the non-profit True Health
Initiative; and Founder and CEO of Diet ID, Inc, acquired in 2023 by Tangelo, an award-winning
food-as-medicine company, where he now serves as Chief Medical Officer. He also serves as a
senior science advisor to Blue Zones and Blue Zones Health.

Katz held faculty positions at the Yale schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing. He cared for
patients in the context of primary care Internal Medicine and an innovative model of Integrative
Medicine for roughly 30 years, receiving awards for both clinical care and bedside teaching. He
served as a residency director in both Preventive Medicine and evidence-based Integrative
Medicine. He was the lead architect of the nation’s first fully accredited, combined training
program in Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine. Katz was the inaugural editor-in-chief of
the peer-reviewed journal, Childhood Obesity, serving in that role for 5 years.

The recipient of numerous awards for teaching, writing, and contributions to public health, Katz
was a 2019 James Beard Foundation Award nominee in health journalism, has been a widely
supported nominee for the position of U.S. Surgeon General, and has received three honorary
doctorates. He is a 2023 recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Doctors’ World Gala,
and the 2024 recipient of the President’s Award from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.
Katz has an extensive media portfolio, having served as a nutrition columnist for O, the Oprah
Magazine; an on-air contributor for ABC News/Good Morning America; and with appearances on
most major news programs and contributions to most major magazines and leading newspapers,
including OpEds in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. He is one of the original 150
“Influencers” selected by LinkedIN, and has a social media following of nearly one million.
He holds multiple U.S. patents; has roughly 250 peer-reviewed publications; has published many
hundreds of on-line and newspaper columns; and has authored/co-authored 19 books to date
including multiple editions of leading textbooks in nutrition, preventive medicine, and
epidemiology. His most recent book for a general audience, How to Eat, co-authored with Mark
Bittman, was a 2021 IACP Awards finalist.

His career-long focus has been the translation of science into action for the addition of years to life,
and life to years, and on the confluence of human and planetary health.

On the COVID pandemic, he advocated consistently for a policy of total harm minimization
(https://www.truehealthinitiative.org/covid/) by means of risk-stratified interdiction efforts- and
for addressing the “prior pandemic” of cardiometabolic disease that contributes so much to acute
risk. These views were extensively covered in the New York Times. His commentary on lessons in
the pandemic in the American Journal of Health Promotion was recognized among the journal’s
“Best Papers of 2024.

Katz has presented at conferences in all 50 U.S. states and in multiple countries on six continents.
Represented by the Harry Walker Agency, he has been recognized by peers as the “poet laureate of
health promotion.

He and his wife, Catherine, live in Connecticut. They have five grown children.