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: 21ST CENTURY CRITICAL LIMITS FOR EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION, DECISION MAKING, AND TREATMENT

Critical limits define the low and high quantitative boundaries of life-threatening diagnostic test results. The goals of this research are to enhance standards of care for urgent clinician notification of these life-threatening test results, accelerate decision making for the treatment of critically ill patients, and enable the wise selection of point-of-care diagnostics and instruments for public health crises and global warming weather disasters. This research will discover current critical limits and critical value practices in American hospitals; quantitate statistically significant drift in quantitative critical limits over the past three decades; document current qualitative critical values, such as positive COVID-19 test results; publish databases of quantitative critical limits and qualitative critical values pivotal to urgent patient intervention, decision making, and treatment; and assess the feasibility of international harmonization of critical values practices. Lifesaving diagnostic speed, urgent notification, and accurately informed decision-making facilitate rapid therapy in times of human medical crises. Data gathered will improve critical test result notification practices in the UCD Health system, other UC medical centers, and hospitals and emergency rooms throughout the US. This research will advance standards of care, improve medical outcomes, and provide leadership for international standardization of critical values practices.

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