John Kastor, MD

John A. Kastor ( 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, where he was appointed to the staff and to the faculty of the Harvard Medical School. From 1969 to 1983, he worked at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine where he became Professor of Medicine in 1976 and 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 principal academic and clinical interests. He is the author or co-author of more that 130 papers and the following books:

Arrhythmias (W.B. Saunders 1994, second edition, 2000.)
Mergers of Teaching Hospitals in Boston, New York, and Northern California (University of Michigan Press, 2001)
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.)
You and your Arrhythmia: A Guide to Cardiac Arrhythmias for Patients and Families (Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2006.)
Selling Teaching Hospitals and Practice Plans: George Washington & Georgetown Universities (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.)

His current project is a study of the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Kastor also consults with academic medical centers, medical schools, and teaching hospitals about governance, organization, and related issues. See http://kastorconsulting.com/