Visiting Professor of Medicine and Physiology
Dr. Katz received a B.A. with Honors in Natural Sciences from the University of Chicago in 1952 and an M.D. cum laude from Harvard in 1956. His clinical training was at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Institute of Cardiology of the University of London with Paul Wood. He received his research training from his father, Louis N Katz in Chicago, Christian B Anfinsen Jr. at the National Institutes of Health, and WFHM Mommaerts at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Dr. Katz was Assistant Professor of Physiology at Columbia University in New York (1964-1967), Associate Professor of Medicine and Physiology at the University of Chicago (1967-1969), and in 1969 became the first Philip J and Harriet L Goodhart Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York. In 1977 he moved to the University of Connecticut School of Medicine as Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and first Cardiology Division Chief. He became Cardiology Division Chief Emeritus at the University of Connecticut in 1995 and Professor Emeritus in 2000. He has taught at Dartmouth since 1990 where he is now Visiting Professor of Medicine and Physiology.
Dr. Katz has recently been honored by being selected as the recipient of the Peter Harris Distinguished Scientist Award of the International Society for Heart Research in 2004.
Dr. Katz’ major work initially centered on the role of calcium in cardiac contraction, excitation-contraction coupling and relaxation, and subsequently on the actions of lipids on membrane structure and function. Phospholamban was discovered in his laboratory in 1974. More recently he has studied the pathophysiology and treatment of heart failure, and is also pursuing long-standing interests in Medical History and the History of Physiology.
Katz AM. Cardiomyopathy of overload. A major determinant of prognosis in congestive heart failure. New Eng J Med 1990;322:100-110.
Katz AM. Evolving Concepts of Heart Failure: Cooling Furnace, Malfunctioning Pump, Enlarging Muscle. Part I. Heart failure as a disorder of the cardiac pump. J Cardiac Failure. 1997;3:319-334. Part II. Hypertrophy and dilatation of the failing heart. J Cardiac Failure. 1998:4:67-81.
Katz AM. Ernest Henry Starling, His Predecessors, and the "Law of the Heart". Circulation. 2002;106:2986-2992.
Katz AM. Physiology of the Heart 4th Ed. Lippincott/Williams & Wilkins, 2006.
Katz AM, Konstam MA. Heart Failure: Pathophysiology, Molecular Biology, Clinical Management. 2nd Ed. Lippincott/Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2008.
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