Leanne enters health transformation and innovation with the unique combination of deep knowledge of behavior change science, the creativity of a program designer, and the experience of a lifestyle medicine pioneer. A behavioral scientist by training, Leanne leverages her trade to design irresistibly engaging and scientifically sound consumer programs, products, and experiences to facilitate meaningful and lasting health behavior change and health optimization.
One of her greatest and most rewarding career challenges was developing a pioneering digital and virtual forward lifestyle and culinary medicine program to transform an integrated healthcare system to bring lifestyle to the forefront of care delivery.
Leanne is a national thought leader on facilitating meaningful and lasting health behavior change. She has secured and led multi-million NIH-funded innovation research and has authored numerous scientific articles, book chapters, and white papers, and presented hundreds of presentations, trainings, lectures, and interviews.
Currently Leanne serves as Head of Partnerships for Diet ID, a digital health company delivering a frictionless yet scientifically valid approach to measure and optimize diet quality at scale. Leanne also serves as Founder & CEO of Evolve Health Advisors, a company that advises organizations on the design and implementation of health transformation products and initiatives.
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Rachna is the Co-founder and COO of Diet ID, a digital health company making it possible to treat diet as a vital sign. Prior to Diet ID, she was the CEO and Co-founder of Foodstand, a public health tech company committed to making healthy eating an everyday habit for the masses.
Growing up as the daughter of food business owners, Govani’s earliest memories are ones of scooping ice cream at the family ice cream shop. Working at her parents’ neighborhood markets in New Jersey provided an early education on the connection between cheap, processed food and obesity. In retrospect, these experiences fueled many of her business and personal pursuits.
After earning her Economics and Psychology degree from NYU, Govani went on to build a successful career in consumer, behavior-driven product development. She spent 5 years at American Express, where she achieved award-winning recognition and earned herself a patent. She went on to a green-tech startup focusing on building products and tools to help people live more sustainable lives. She then joined Purpose, a social impact incubator, to build out a food systems solution that leveraged the power of community engagement to drive support for a healthier, more sustainable food future. Foodstand, Inc. was born out of that incubator and went on to inspire healthy, more sustainable eating in thousands of people in 85 countries.
Rachna has spoken widely on food systems issues, food waste, behavior change, and social entrepreneurship, and has been featured in Food & Wine, Forbes, Edible, Fast Company, and USA Today, just to name a few. She lives in metro Detroit with her partner and two children and can be found in her kitchen or perusing the local farmer's market.
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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).
Katz is the founder 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 Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine; the American College of Physicians; the American College of Lifestyle Medicine; and Morse College, Yale University.
The recipient of numerous awards for teaching, writing, and contributions to public health, 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.
He 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.
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