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Renal physiology, electrolytes, and hypertension

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Adrian I. Katz

Adrian I. Katz (1932–2009) was an Israeli-American nephrologist and professor of medicine at the University of Chicago, known for landmark studies of renal sodium transport and kidney function in pregnancy.

Alexander Leaf

Alexander Leaf, born Alexander Livshiz, was an American physician and clinical researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard known for kidney physiology and omega-3 fatty acid research.

Alfred K. Cheung

Alfred K. Cheung is an American nephrologist and physician-scientist at the University of Utah, known for the SPRINT trial and the KDIGO 2021 blood pressure guideline.

Alfred Newton Richards

Alfred Newton Richards (1876–1966) was an American pharmacologist and renal physiologist at the University of Pennsylvania whose experiments settled how the kidney forms urine, and who served as president of the National Academy of Sciences.

Allen I. Arieff

Allen I. Arieff (1938–2022) was an American nephrologist and UCSF professor whose landmark 1986 New England Journal of Medicine study showed postoperative hyponatremia could kill healthy surgical patients.

Andrew D. Rule

Andrew D. Rule is a nephrologist and Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for research on kidney aging, GFR estimation, and living kidney donor outcomes.

Andrew S. Levey

Andrew S. Levey is an American nephrologist at Tufts Medical Center known for developing the MDRD and CKD-EPI equations that estimate kidney function from routine blood tests.

Arnold S. Relman

Arnold S. Relman was an American nephrologist and editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine from 1977 to 1991, known for acid-base research and conflict-of-interest disclosure rules.

Barry M. Brenner

Barry M. Brenner was an American nephrologist who directed the Renal Division at Brigham and Women's Hospital and proposed the glomerular hyperfiltration hypothesis of diabetic kidney disease.

Biff F. Palmer

Biff F. Palmer is an American nephrologist, professor at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, known for widely cited NEJM reviews on hyperkalemia and salicylate toxicity.

Brenda R. Hemmelgarn

Brenda R. Hemmelgarn, also known as Brenda Hemmelgarn, is a Canadian nephrologist and clinical epidemiologist who became dean of medicine at the University of Alberta in 2020.

Bryan D. Myers

Bryan D. Myers (1936–2023) was a South African-born American nephrologist at Stanford University whose dextran-clearance methods made the glomerular filtration barrier measurable in living patients.

C. van Ypersele de Strihou

Charles van Ypersele de Strihou (1933–2021) was a Belgian nephrologist who founded and led the nephrology department of the Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc of the University of Louvain.

Carmine Zoccali

Carmine Zoccali is an Italian nephrologist and clinical epidemiologist in Reggio Calabria known for the 2001 Lancet study showing plasma ADMA predicts death in dialysis patients.

Charles Y.C. Pak

Charles Y.C. Pak is an American physician-scientist in mineral metabolism, professor at UT Southwestern since 1972, known for kidney stone and osteoporosis research and for Citracal, Urocit-K, and THIOLA.

Chirag R. Parikh

Chirag R. Parikh is an Indian-born American nephrologist, Director of the Division of Nephrology at Johns Hopkins, known for the TRIBE-AKI consortium studying biomarkers that detect acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery.

Christopher S. Wilcox

Christopher S. Wilcox is a British-born physician-scientist in renal physiology and hypertension who led Georgetown University's nephrology division and researched oxidative stress as a cause of hypertension.

Daniel Batlle

Daniel Batlle is a nephrologist and hypertension researcher at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, known for the urinary anion gap and for ACE2 research in diabetic kidney disease.

Daniel G. Bichet

Daniel G. Bichet is a Canadian nephrologist at the Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal and Université de Montréal, first to identify the AVPR2 gene behind nephrogenic diabetes insipidus.

David A. Bushinsky

David A. Bushinsky is an American nephrologist at the University of Rochester who led its nephrology division for 29 years and studied acid effects on bone.

David G. Warnock

David G. Warnock is an American nephrologist and physiologist who directed nephrology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and led major trials in diabetic kidney disease.

David P. Earle

David P. Earle (1910–2002) was an American nephrologist who chaired medicine at Northwestern University from 1965 to 1973 and led decades-long cohort studies of poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis in South Trinidad.

David Z.I. Cherney

David Z.I. Cherney (David Zev Isaac Cherney) is a Canadian nephrologist and University of Toronto professor who directs the Renal Physiology Laboratory and studies SGLT2 inhibitors in diabetic kidney disease.

Dominique Prié

Dominique Prié is a French nephrologist and Inserm researcher known for work on the genetics of renal phosphate transport, including the 2002 New England Journal of Medicine study linking NPT2a mutations to hypophosphatemia.

Donald E. Wesson

Donald E. Wesson is an American nephrologist and Professor of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center, known for research on metabolic acidosis in chronic kidney disease.

Donald J. Sherrard

Donald J. Sherrard, also known as D J Sherrard, was an American nephrologist at the University of Washington and Seattle VA hospital who defined the diagnosis of bone disease in dialysis patients.

Donald W. Landry

Donald W. Landry is an American physician-scientist and Hamilton Southworth Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, known for identifying vasopressin deficiency in vasodilatory shock and creating the first artificial enzyme that degrades cocaine.

Eduardo Slatopolsky

Eduardo Slatopolsky (1934–2024) was an Argentine-born American physician-scientist at Washington University School of Medicine who defined the modern understanding of secondary hyperparathyroidism in chronic kidney disease.

Eugene P. Rhee

Eugene P. Rhee is an American nephrologist and physician-scientist who serves as Chief of the Nephrology Division at Massachusetts General Hospital and is a Harvard professor.

F. John Gennari

F. John Gennari is an American nephrologist at the University of Vermont known for widely cited New England Journal of Medicine reviews on acid-base and electrolyte disorders.