Arthur L. Klatsky MD

Arthur L. Klatsky, MD, is an adjunct investigator at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research and a senior consultant in cardiology (retired July 1999), at Kaiser Permanente Northern California. He served as a staff physician at the Kaiser Permanente Oakland facility from 1961 to 1999, chief of the Division of Cardiology from 1978 to 1994, and director of the Coronary Care Unit from 1968 to 1990. Since 1977, Dr. Klatsky has been the principal investigator of a series of studies on the relations between drinking alcoholic beverages and health. He has written and lectured extensively on the relationships of alcohol consumption to cardiovascular conditions.

He has also researched and published articles about coffee, tea, and health, and cardiovascular risk in Asian-American ethnic groups. In 1992, he received the first Thomas B. Turner Award for Research Excellence by the Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation. In 1995, the National Academies of Practice named him a Distinguished Practitioner. Since 1997, he has been associate editor, and since 2006, senior editor of The Permanente Journal. In 2004, he was given the Morris Collen Lifetime Achievement Research Award by the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Northern California. In 2008, he became a member of the board of trustees of the Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation.