PETER RUSSELL KOWEY, MD: a conversation with the editor

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Peter Kowey was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, January 4, 1950, and that is where he grew up. He graduated from Bishop Kendrick High School in June 1967 as Salutatorian and received a Presidential Scholarship to St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia where he graduated in May 1971, Cum Laude with a BS in Biology and was a member of the Alpha Sigma Nu honors program. From there he went to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia for medical school graduating in 1975. His internship in internal medicine was at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Philadelphia, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and his fellowship in cardiology was at the Harvard University School of Public Health and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, finishing in June 1981. His major mentor was Dr. Bernard Lown. After completing his cardiology fellowship, he returned to Philadelphia, joining the Medical College of Pennsylvania as director of the coronary care unit and of the cardiac arrhythmia service. He rose to full Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology by 1990. He became chief of the division of cardiovascular diseases of the Mainline Health System, Bryn Mawr, Lankenau and Paoli Memorial Hospitals in 1999 and has remained in that position to the present. He also occupies the William Wykoff Smith Chair in Cardiovascular Research. From 1990 until the present he is also Professor of Medicine and of Clinical Pharmacology at Jefferson Medical College of The Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He was Clinical Professor of Medicine at MCP/Hahnemann/Drexel University College of Medicine from 1992 - 2003. He also serves as president of The Heart Center of Lankenau, Bryn Mawr, and Paoli Memorial Hospitals.