Karl Stark
Karl Stark is Director of Content Strategy for University of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, where he focuses on encouraging faculty to write for the public and create medical narratives. Before joining Penn, he worked for more than three decades at the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he served as Health Editor, Business News Editor and National/Foreign Editor. His reporting on the bankrupt Allegheny health system helped lead to indictments of the top three executives. He served as president of the nonprofit Association of Healthcare Journalists, the nation's largest group of health reporters and editors. He also wrote weekly jazz reviews and occasional jazz features for years on such players as Art Blakey, Kenny Garrett, Bill Charlap, Pat Martino, Christian McBride and Joey DeFrancesco.