David L. Katz


David L. Katz is an American physician and former director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center that was founded at Griffin Hospital in Derby, Connecticut in 1998.

Career

Previously, Katz was a clinical instructor in medicine at the Yale School of Medicine.Katz formerly served as associate director for nutrition science at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale, following his appointment in 2005. Katz has authored over 100 scientific papers and written numerous newspaper and magazine articles, including a recurring column in starting in March 2002 and later discontinued. In 2000, Katz founded the Integrative Medicine Center at Griffin, which ceased operating in November 2014. Katz is a contributor and advisory board member for Naked Food Magazine.
In 2015, Katz wrote two positive reviews in his Huffington Post blog for a science fiction book that he had published under a pseudonym, without disclosing that he was the author of the book; Huffington Post retracted the posts.
Although Katz has Yale University as his Twitter location, Katz is not academically affiliated with Yale and has not held an academic appointment there since 2016.

Education

Katz received a BA degree from Dartmouth College, an MD degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and an MPH degree from Yale School of Public Health. He is board certified in preventive medicine.

Selected publications