David L Katz MD, MPH
Director, Yale University Prevention Research Center
Derby, CT
Professional summary
David L. Katz MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP is an internationally recognized authority on nutrition, weight management, and the prevention of chronic disease. 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.
Specialties and Interests
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Obesity,
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Diabetes,
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Nutrition,
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Public Health,
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Preventive Medicine,
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Internal Medicine,
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Integrative Medicine,
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Weight Management,
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Chronic Disease Prevention
Contact
Education
Universities
Yale University School of Public Health
MPH
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
MD
Dartmouth College
BA, French
Postgraduate Training
Yale University School of Medicine
Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk, CT
Licenses/Certifications
Board Certified Preventive Medicine
Board Certified Internal Medicine
Publications
Articles
"Plant foods in the American diet? As we sow..."
"Partners reducing effects of diabetes (PREDICT): a diabetes prevention physical activity and dietary intervention through African-American churches."
"The expanding medical and behavioral resources with access to care for everyone health plan."
"Intravenous micronutrient therapy (Myers' Cocktail) for fibromyalgia: a placebo-controlled pilot study."
"School-Based Interventions for Health Promotion and Weight Control: Not Just Waiting on the World to Change."
"Strategies for the prevention and control of obesity in the school setting: systematic review and meta-analysis."
"Acute dark chocolate and cocoa ingestion and endothelial function: a randomized controlled crossover trial."
"The role of culture, environment, and religion in the promotion of physical activity among Arab Israelis."
"Evaluating the impact of mobile telephone technology on type 2 diabetic patients' self-management: the NICHE pilot study."
"Impact of an educational intervention on internal medicine residents' physical activity counselling: the Pressure System Model."
"Promoting healthy people 2010 through small grants."
"Understanding barriers and facilitators of fruit and vegetable consumption among a diverse multi-ethnic population in the USA."
"Raloxifene, soy phytoestrogens and endothelial function in postmenopausal women."
"The pain of fibromyalgia syndrome is due to muscle hypoperfusion induced by regional vasomotor dysregulation."
"Information given to postmenopausal women on coronary computed tomography may influence cardiac risk reduction efforts."
"Medicine and media: state of the union?"
"Effect of soy isoflavone protein and soy lecithin on endothelial function in healthy postmenopausal women."
"Impediment profiling for smoking cessation: application in the worksite."
"Repeated serum lipid measurements during the peri-hospitalization period."
"Factors associated with smoking cessation counseling at clinical encounters: the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) 2000."
"Massage therapy for osteoarthritis of the knee: a randomized controlled trial."
"The value of microgrants for community-based health promotion: two models for practice and policy."
"Public health strategies for preventing and controlling overweight and obesity in school and worksite settings: a report on recommendations of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services."
"A randomized controlled trial of meditation and massage effects on quality of life in people with late-stage disease: a pilot study."
"Representing your community in community-based participatory research: differences made and measured."
"Physical activity counseling in the adult primary care setting: position statement of the American College of Preventive Medicine."
"The role for vitamin B-6 as treatment for depression: a systematic review."
"Yoga intervention for adults with mild-to-moderate asthma: a pilot study."
"Competing dietary claims for weight loss: finding the forest through truculent trees."
"Egg consumption and endothelial function: a randomized controlled crossover trial."
"Parental IQ and cognitive development of malnourished Indonesian children."
"S-adenosylmethionine (SAMe) as treatment for depression: a systematic review."
"Vaccinations in pneumonia (VIP): pneumococcal and influenza vaccination patterns among patients hospitalized for pneumonia."
"Oats, antioxidants and endothelial function in overweight, dyslipidemic adults."
"Lifestyle and dietary modification for prevention of heart failure."
"Acting in defense of the medical literature."
"Back-up antibiotic prescriptions could reduce unnecessary antibiotic use in rhinosinusitis."
"Effects of interdisciplinary rounds on length of stay in a telemetry unit."
"Smoking cessation for high school students. Impact evaluation of a novel program."
"Technical skills for weight loss: 2-y follow-up results of a randomized trial."
"Raloxifene and endothelial function in healthy postmenopausal women."
"Impediment profiling for smoking cessation. Preliminary experience."
"The evidence base for complementary and alternative medicine: methods of Evidence Mapping with application to CAM."
"The low-down on low-carbohydrate diets."
"Impediment profiling for smoking cessation: results of a pilot study."
"Combined hysteroscopy and laparoscopy in the treatment of interstitial pregnancy."
"Utility of HbA(1c) levels for diabetes case finding in hospitalized patients with hyperglycemia."
"Effective dietary counseling: helping patients find and follow "the way" to eat."
"Pandemic obesity and the contagion of nutritional nonsense."
"Guidance at the many edges of evidence: position statements of the American College of Preventive Medicine."
"Community health promotion and the randomized controlled trial: approaches to finding common ground."
"Technical skills for weight loss: preliminary data from a randomized trial."
"The activated partial thromboplastin time in early diagnosis of myocardial infarction."
"Effects of oat and wheat cereals on endothelial responses."
"Health risk behaviors and health perceptions in the Peruvian Amazon."
"Clinical diagnosis of malaria on the Thai-Myanmar border."
"American College of Preventive Medicine Practice Policy statement. Weight management counseling of overweight adults."
"Self-reported weight and height: implications for obesity research."
"Glycemic load and the risk of coronary heart disease."
"Acute effects of oats and vitamin E on endothelial responses to ingested fat."
"Behavior modification in primary care: the pressure system model."
"Physician-patient interactions regarding diet, exercise, and smoking."
"Results of nerve transfer techniques for restoration of shoulder and elbow function in the context of a meta-analysis of the English literature."
"Conventional medical care and unconventional therapies."
"American College of Preventive Medicine Practice Policy Statement: perimenopausal and postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy."
"Peri-operative aspirin can prevent post-operative ischemia and thrombosis."
"An integrated residency in internal and preventive medicine."
"Concordance of clinical findings and clinical judgment in the diagnosis of streptococcal pharyngitis."
"Preventable inpatient time: adequacy of electronic patient information systems."
"Does acid suppression by antacids and H2 receptor antagonists increase the incidence of atrophic gastritis in patients with or without H. pylori gastritis?"
"Weight loss counseling by health care providers."
"Dilutional hyponatremia in pre-eclampsia."
"Dietary fat consumption in a cohort of American adults, 1985-1991: covariates, secular trends, and compliance with guidelines."
"Long-term symptom patterns, endoscopic findings, and gastric histology in Helicobacter pylori-infected and -uninfected patients."
"Long-term clinical outcomes of Lyme disease."
"Cholesterol and coronary heart disease risk in elderly patients."
"Cost-effectiveness of combined statin-resin therapy."
"Time trends in the incidence of renal carcinoma: analysis of Connecticut Tumor Registry data, 1935-1989."
Books
Nutrition in Clinical Practice, 2nd Edition
Curriculum Vitae
Disclosures
I have a financial interest in a nutrition profiling system, called NuVal: www.nuval.com

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