Michael Dansinger, MD
Specialty: Lifestyle Medicine
Michael Dansinger is a nationally recognized authority on dietary and lifestyle counseling for weight loss and disease prevention. Dr. Dansinger is the Founding Director of the Diabetes Reversal Program at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, and an Assistant Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine. He is the Wellness Director at Boston Heart Diagnostics, is a nutrition and diabetes expert for WebMD Health Services, DietID, Heali, RxDiet, True Health Initiative Media Response Team, and the CDC’s Worksite Health ScoreCard. He is a contributing author to the Culinary Medicine Textbook by Deborah Kennedy, PhD.
His research on dietary counseling is well known. He published the highly publicized research study “Comparison of the Atkins, Ornish, Weight Watchers and Zone Diets for Weight Loss and Cardiac Risk Reduction” in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). He is a panelist judge for US News and World Reports’ “Best Diets” awards and was the nutrition doctor for NBC’s “The Biggest Loser” for 11 years. He has been interviewed about his weight loss experience on the Today show, CNN, National Public Radio, CBS Radio, BBC Radio, Oprah magazine, Time magazine, Consumer Reports, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, NY Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and hundreds of other media outlets. He lectures throughout the U.S. to medical and non-medical audiences and is represented by the Harry Walker Agency.