John Nosta

John Nosta is an American critical thinker with a background in science and marketing, most notable for his work in the field of digital health. He is the founder of NostaLab, and previously wrote a health- and technology-themed blog for Forbes called Health Critical. He has given speeches at numerous conferences and events including , South by Southwest, and HealthXL. Nosta is a member of the Google Health Advisory Board and a founding member of the roster of experts dealing in digital health at the World Health Organization.
Early life and education
Nosta was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey and is a second-generation American with Romanian and Hungarian ancestry. His father, John T. Nosta, was an electrical engineer, and his mother, Rose Nosta, was a homemaker. He attended high school at St. Joseph High School in Metuchen, New Jersey. At age 16, Nosta enrolled in an advanced summer program at Harvard University. He was also the President of the Perth Amboy First Aid Squad. He also spoke at conferences and events like TEDMED, South by Southwest, and HealthXL.
In 2012, he started Health Critical, a blog on Forbes that discussed the link between health, medicine, and technology. a distinction that he duplicated in 2015. He would eventually be ranked number one on the Kred Influence Measurement for health and in the top 10 of the Hit100 list.
In 2014, he founded NostaLab, a digital health think tank that has been described as "a self-organizing neural network dedicated to the advancement of digital health." In September 2014, Nosta gave a speech entitled "Genius is our birthright, and mediocrity is self-imposed" at the TEDxBedminster in New Jersey. Additional speaking engagements have included the CES Digital Health Summit in 2015 and SXSW 2015.
Nosta is also known as a medical influencer on social media, frequent being named as an account to Follow on Twitter. As of 2020, he serves on the Google Health Advisory Board and is a founding member of the roster of experts dealing in digital health at the World Health Organization.
Selected publications
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* "Localization of the neurally mediated facilitation of post infarction arrhythmias." Harvard Medical School: Circulation 1981; 64(4):140
* "Hydrostatic forces limit swelling of rat ventricular myocardium". Harvard Medical School: American Journal of Physiology 1981; 241(5):H740-7
* "Studies of amiodarone during experimental myocardial infarction: beneficial effects on hemodynamics and infarct size." Harvard Medical School: Circulation 1982; 65(3):508-12.
* "Detailed analysis of 24 hour ambulatory ECG recordings during sudden cardiac death." Harvard Medical School: American Journal of Cardiology 1982; 49(4):1018

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