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Patrick Rossignol
Patrick Rossignol (born 1969) is a French nephrologist, professor of therapeutics, and hypertension specialist who led the Nancy Inserm clinical investigation center before moving to Monaco in 2022.
Patrick S. Parfrey
Patrick S. Parfrey is an Irish-born nephrologist and clinical epidemiologist at Memorial University of Newfoundland, known for research on kidney disease and cardiovascular complications in dialysis patients.
Paul Cannon
Paul J. Cannon (1933–2018) was an American physician-scientist at Columbia University who studied how the kidney regulates salt and blood pressure in heart failure and introduced xenon-133 measurement of heart-muscle blood flow.
Paul E. Klotman
Paul E. Klotman is an American physician-scientist in nephrology and HIV research who served as president of Baylor College of Medicine from 2010 to 2026.
Paul L. Kimmel
Paul L. Kimmel is an American nephrologist and program director at the NIDDK, known for research on kidney disease in HIV infection and his 2014 review of acute and chronic kidney disease.
Peter Mündel
Peter Mündel, often published as Peter Mundel, is a German-trained nephrologist known for podocyte biology research, who led a Harvard lab and became Goldfinch Bio's chief scientific officer in 2018.
Peter Rossing
Peter Rossing (born 1965) is a Danish physician and medical researcher in endocrinology and diabetes, known for research on diabetic kidney disease and co-chairing the KDIGO 2022 guideline.
Piero Ruggenenti
Piero Ruggenenti, born in Milan in 1958, is an Italian nephrologist who heads renal medicine at the Mario Negri Institute in Bergamo and led landmark kidney trials.
Pierre Ronco
Pierre Ronco (born 1951 in Paris) is a French nephrologist known for identifying the target antigens of membranous nephropathy and defining the hereditary COL4A1 disease HANAC.
Priscilla Kincaid‐Smith
Priscilla Kincaid-Smith (1926–2015) was a South African-born Australian nephrologist who founded the Royal Melbourne Hospital renal unit and became the University of Melbourne's first female professor in 1975.
R. Curtis Morris
R. Curtis Morris was an American nephrologist at the University of California, San Francisco, who studied renal tubular acidosis, dietary acid load, and salt-sensitive hypertension from 1964 until his death in 2021.
Rajiv Agarwal
Rajiv Agarwal is a nephrologist and clinical trialist, Professor Emeritus at Indiana University School of Medicine, who studies hypertension in chronic kidney disease and hemodialysis.
Rajiv Kumar (nephrologist)
Rajiv Kumar is a nephrologist and mineral metabolism researcher at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for work on phosphate wasting by tumors, vitamin D metabolism, and bone disease in kidney failure.
Ravindra L. Mehta
Ravindra L. Mehta is an Indian-born American nephrologist and Professor Emeritus at UC San Diego, a founding member of the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative and the Acute Kidney Injury Network.
Raymond C. Harris
Raymond C. Harris is an American nephrologist at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, known for the 1994 discovery of COX-2 in the kidney's macula densa and EGFR's role in kidney fibrosis.
Raymond M. Hakim
Raymond M. Hakim, also known as Raymond Hakim, is an American nephrologist at Vanderbilt University whose research on dialysis membrane biocompatibility and dialysis dose shaped hemodialysis practice.
Raymond Vanholder
Raymond Vanholder is a Belgian nephrologist, professor emeritus at Ghent University Hospital, who led its nephrology division from 2005 to 2014, founded EUTox, and led the ISN's 0by25 initiative.
Richard A. Zager
Richard A. Zager is an American nephrologist and physician-scientist at Fred Hutch and the University of Washington known for research on acute kidney injury mechanisms.
Richard H. Sterns
Richard H. Sterns is an American nephrologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Rochester and former Chief of Medicine at Rochester General Hospital, known for research on sodium disorders.
Richard L. Tannen
Richard L. Tannen was an American nephrologist and emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for research on renal ammoniagenesis and acid-base and potassium homeostasis.
Richard M. Hays
Richard M. Hays is a physician and renal physiologist long based at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, known for research on antidiuretic hormone and water movement across epithelia.
Robert A. Star
Robert A. Star is an American nephrologist and physician-scientist who directs the Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases at NIDDK and led the 2008 ATN trial.
Robert D. Toto
Robert D. Toto is an American nephrologist and the Mary M. Conroy Professor of Kidney Disease at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for major chronic kidney disease trials.
Robert Frederick Loeb
Robert Frederick Loeb (1895–1973) was an American physician and physiologist at Columbia University whose balance studies showed the adrenal glands regulate sodium metabolism through the kidney, later identified as aldosterone.
Robert G. Nelson
Robert G. Nelson is an American nephrologist and epidemiologist who leads NIDDK's diabetic nephropathy project in Phoenix, Arizona, and led 2019 risk equations for chronic kidney disease published in JAMA.
Robert Kleta
Robert Kleta is a British-based nephrologist and biochemical geneticist, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at University College London, known for identifying genetic causes of rare kidney tubular disorders including EAST syndrome.
Robert Luke
Robert G. Luke (R. G. Luke) is a Scottish-born nephrologist who chaired internal medicine at the University of Cincinnati from 1988 to 2004 and studies acid-base and electrolyte metabolism.
Robert N. Foley
Robert N. Foley is a nephrologist and clinical epidemiologist in Minneapolis, known for the 2011 New England Journal of Medicine study showing dialysis deaths cluster after the two-day treatment break.
Robert W. Berliner
Robert W. Berliner (1915–2002) was an American renal physiologist who defined how the kidney handles potassium and later served as dean of the Yale School of Medicine.
Robert W. Schrier
Robert W. Schrier was an American nephrologist who led renal medicine at the University of Colorado and explained sodium and water retention in heart failure, cirrhosis, and pregnancy.