John A. Kastor, MD - University of Maryland School of Medicine, Maryland

John A. Kastor, B.A., University of Pennsylvania, M.D., New York University, is Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He trained in internal medicine at Bellevue and New York University hospitals and in cardiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. From 1969 to 1984, he was a member of the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine where he became Chief of the Cardiovascular Division in 1977. From 1984 to 1997, Dr. Kastor was Theodore E. Woodward Professor of Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Chief of the Medical Service at the University of Maryland Hospital.

The mechanisms, diagnosis and management of cardiac arrhythmias and the governance of academic medical centers are his primary academic and clinical interests. He is the author or co-author of more that 130 papers and six books: two editions of Arrhythmias (W.B. Saunders 1994, 2000), Mergers of Teaching Hospitals in Boston, New York, and Northern California (University of Michigan Press, 2001; paperback edition, 2003) and Governance of Teaching Hospitals: Turmoil at Penn and Hopkins (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), Specialty Care in the Era of Managed Care: Cleveland Clinic versus University Hospitals of Cleveland, (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), and You and Your Arrhythmia: A Guide to Heart Rhythm Problems for Patients and Their Families (Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2005).  He is currently studying the Georgetown University and George Washington university medical schools to understand the reasons for, and results of, selling their university hospitals and practice plans.