David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP is the founding director of Yale University’s Prevention Research Center at Griffin Hospital. He is a board certified specialist in both Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine/Public Health; Director and founder of the Integrative Medicine Center at Griffin Hospital (2000) in Derby, CT; founder and president of the non-profit Turn the Tide Foundation. Know internationally for expertise in nutrition and chronic disease prevention, as well as integrative care models, Katz has secured roughly $30 million in research funding, and has published over 120 scientific papers, numerous textbook chapters, nearly a thousand newspaper columns, and 12 books to date. He is the principal inventor of the Overall Nutritional Quality Index utilized in the NuVal™ nutrition guidance program (www.nuval.com), currently offered in approximately 1,000 supermarkets throughout the United States. He has been recognized three times by the Consumers Research Council of America as one of the nation’s top physicians in Preventive Medicine; was a nominee for the position of US Surgeon General in 2009; and was the 2011 recipient of the Katharine Boucot Sturgis award from the American College of Preventive Medicine, the most prestigious award the College confers
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