David L. Katz – MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP, FACLM

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What If… DIET were a Vital Sign? A Thought Experiment

A recent study in Nutrients by researchers at the University of California, Davis, demonstrates robust performance, as compared to an array of biomarkers, of a novel dietary assessment method based on pattern recognition. The method- diet quality photo navigation– which has passed other such tests, is the first fundamentally new way to assess dietary intake introduced in decades, requiring no recollection of details, no food logging, no need to take pictures.

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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; Past President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine; President and Founder of the non-profit True Health Initiative; and Founder and CEO of Diet ID, Inc. He is a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine; the American College of Physicians; the American College of Lifestyle Medicine; and Morse College, Yale University.

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