David L. Katz, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer, Tangelo
Dr. Katz is the Chief Medical Officer at Tangelo and Former Director of Yale University’s Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center (1998-2019); 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. He is a specialist in Internal Medicine, Preventive Medicine/Public Health, and Lifestyle Medicine, with particular expertise in nutrition.
The recipient of numerous awards for teaching, writing, and contributions to public health, Dr. Katz was a 2019 James Beard Foundation Award nominee in health journalism, is a 2023 recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Doctors’ World Gala, and has received three honorary doctorates.
Dr. Katz holds multiple US patents; has over 200 peer-reviewed publications; and has authored/co-authored 19 books to date including multiple editions of leading textbooks in nutrition, preventive medicine, and epidemiology.
He earned his BA at Dartmouth College (1984); his medical degree at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1988); and his MPH from the Yale University School of Public Health (1993). He is also a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine, the American College of Physicians, and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.