Dedicated PKD Doc Wins Top Award
March 19, 2009 |
Research & Medicine
Longtime PKD researcher and nephrologist Robert W. Schrier, MD, recently won the American Association of Kidney Patients' 2009 Medal of Excellence Award. The Medal of Excellence is an AAKP recognition program honoring a renal physician who has achieved outstanding success in caring for kidney disease patients, while also possessing extraordinary skills and devotion in the field of nephrology.
Dr. Schrier is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and heads up the HALT Study for PKD patients in the United States. His vast contributions to the renal community include patient-oriented research in acute kidney injury; autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease; hypertension and diabetic nephropathy; renal sodium and water retention in heart failure and cirrhosis. He has published more than 900 scientific articles in these areas of clinical research. This important research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health for more than 35 years.
As a leader of the HALT study and other critical research projects, Dr. Schrier has been a longtime partner of the PKD Foundation. Lorrie Rome, National Director of Scientific Programs for the PKD Foundation, congratulated Dr. Schrier on his most recent accomplishment.
"Dr. Schrier is a very important doctor who is committed to the treatment of PKD patients," Rome said.
Dr. Schrier’s presence in the field of nephrology is felt both nationally and internationally by his development of the world class nephrology unit at the University of Colorado, which is ranked in the top 10 of 126 medical schools by the US News & World Report. He has trained more than 200 nephrology fellows and has lectured and educated physicians in renal and hypertension patient care in more than 75 countries. He served as President of the American Society of Nephrology, the National Kidney Foundation and the International Society of Nephrology. Dr. Schrier is the Editor of three major kidney text books and Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology.
PKD Foundation advisor Ronald Perrone, MD, was also a nominee for the 2009 Medal of Excellence Award.