Dr. Kost studied Engineering at Stanford University and in Venezuela, then received the Master's degree in Engineering-Economic Systems (EEP) from Stanford prior to entering the Medical Scientist MD-PhD program at the University of California. He received his PhD in Bioengineering (NIH Traineeship) from UC San Diego and his MD from UC San Francisco in a Medical Scientist program. He was elected to Mu Alpha Theta (mathematics), Phi Kappa Phi (scholarship), and Sigma Xi (science) honor societies. 
 

His clinical residency comprised Internal Medicine/Neurology at UCLA and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is boarded in Clinical Pathology (ABP), was elected to the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry (NACB, AACC Academy), served on its Board of Directors, and is licensed to practice medicine in California. For over three decades, he was Director of POCT/Clinical Chemistry for UC Davis Health. In 1995, he founded the POCT-CTRTM, and in 2016, the POC Institute. He held an Edward A. Dickson Endowed Emeritus Professor Award in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine.

Recipient of the Dickson Emeriti Professorship Award 2023-2024

21^st CENTURY CRITICAL LIMITS AND CRITICAL VALUES FOR EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION AND DECISION MAKING: HOW OUR STUDENTS ARE CHANGING THE STANDARD OF CARE IN AMERICA

The goals of this presentation are to review the history of the Undergraduate Research Conference at UC Davis and show you 2025 posters that illustrate how our remarkable students are contributing to the standard of care for notification of life-threatening diagnostic test results, to document impact on Joint Commission national patient safety goals and hospital accreditation, and to bring you up to date with a few of our recommendations for decision thresholds that trigger life-saving treatment. Critical limits and critical values define the quantitative boundaries and qualitative findings of life-threatening diagnostic test results, respectively. We are updating this knowledge base to accelerate the care of critically ill patients, enable the wise selection of point-of-care diagnostics, and  improve responses to public health crises. A Dickson Emeritus Award launched research discovering current critical limits and critical value practices; quantitating statistically significant changes in quantitative critical limits over the past three decades; and documenting current qualitative critical values, such as positive COVID-19 test results. Undergraduates are assembling a national database representing hospitals in all US states that will improve critical test result notification practices in the UCD Health system, other UC medical centers, and hospitals and emergency rooms throughout the country. They are contributing to improved medical outcomes, standardized critical values practices, and optimized visual logistics for the exciting future of artificial intelligence-facilitated medicine.

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