MICHAEL DANSINGER, MD, MS

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine

Dr. Dansinger is founding Director of the Diabetes Reversal Program at Tufts Medical Center and an Assistant Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine. He serves on the expert panel for the CDC’s Worksite Health ScoreCard project, is a nutrition and diabetes expert for WebMD, serves on the Council of Directors and Media Response Team for the True Health Initiative, and formerly Clinical Nutrition and Obesity Editor of the peer-reviewed Medscape Journal of Medicine. He was the principal investigator for the highly publicized research study “Comparison of the Atkins, Zone, Weight Watchers, and Ornish Diets for Weight Loss and Cardiac Risk Reduction” (JAMA 2005) and continues to conduct clinical research in lifestyle program effectiveness trials and approaches to increasing adherence to lifestyle recommendations. 

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