The History of Heart Failure
ARNOLD M. KATZ, MD
Visiting Professor of Medicine and Physiology
Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire
Professor of Medicine Emeritus
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Farmington, Connecticut
Arnold Katz currently teaches as Visiting Professor of Medicine and Physiology at Dartmouth and is Professor of Medicine Emeritus at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.
Dr. Katz was born in Chicago in 1932 where he received a BA with Honors in Natural Sciences from the University of Chicago in 1952. He then received his MD (cum laude) from Harvard Medical School in 1956. His clinical training was at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Institute of Cardiology of the University of London and his research training was with his father, Louis N. Katz, Christian B. Anfinsen Jr., and W.F.H.M. Mommaerts. He was Assistant Professor of Physiology at Columbia University (1964-1967), Associate Professor of Medicine and Physiology at the University of Chicago (1967-1969), Philip J. and Harriet L. Goodhart Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (1969-1976) and Professor of Medicine and Cardiology and Division Chief at the University of Connecticut (1977-1997).
Dr. Katz’s research has been focused on the role of calcium in cardiac contraction, excitation-contraction coupling and relaxation and the actions of lipids on membrane structure and function. He has published more than 400 articles, reviews and book chapters, edited several books and has written two single-authored texts: Physiology of the Heart (a 4th Ed. was published in 2006), and Heart Failure: Pathophysiology, Molecular Biology, Clinical Management (a 2nd Ed is in progress). He has received three lifetime research awards: the 1989 Research Achievement Award of the American Heart Association, the 2004 Peter Harris Distinguished Scientist Award given every 3 years by the International Society for Heart Research and has been named recipient of the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Heart Failure Society of America. In 1995 the American Heart Association joined his name to that of his father in the "Louis N. and Arnold M. Katz Prize" for outstanding basic science research by a young investigator. He received several teaching awards from his students at the University of Connecticut including the 21st Charles N. Loeser Award for Outstanding Teaching of Basic Biomedical Sciences.
Dr. Katz has a long-standing interest in Medical History and has written numerous articles, book chapters, and books on the topic.