ABOUT THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Editor-in-Chief
Robert W Schrier, MD
Robert W Schrier, MD
Dr Robert Schrier, Professor of Medicine, was formerly Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine for 26 years, and Head of the Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension for 20 years. In 1989 he was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He has been President of the Association of American Physicians, the American Society of Nephrology, the National Kidney Foundation, and the International Society of Nephrology. Dr Schrier is a Master of the American College of Physicians and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He is the author of more than 800 scientific papers and the editor of Diseases of the Kidney and Urinary Tract, Renal and Electrolyte Disorders, Manual of Nephrology and Essential Atlas of Nephrology and Hypertension.
Dr Schrier's research centers on the pathogenesis of acute renal failure, genetic renal disorders, mechanisms of renal cell injury, diabetic nephropathy, and renal and hormonal control of body fluid volume in cirrhosis, cardiac failure, nephrotic syndrome, and pregnancy. He brings to his research a unique combination of expertise in body fluid control mechanisms, renal function, and cardiovascular function. He has advanced a unifying hypothesis of sodium and water regulation in health and disease, stimulating worldwide interest in the biomedical science community. Dr Schrier's research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health for the past 35 years.
During Dr Schrier's 26 years as Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, the number of full-time faculty increased from approximately 75 to 500. The annual research grants awarded to the department's full-time faculty rose from approximately US$3 to $100 million, including the faculties' contributions to the General Clinical Research and Cancer Centers. The housestaff and fellow training programs also attained national prominence. Thirty endowed research chairs with a value of between US$1.5 and 2.0 million each were established.
Dr Schrier has been granted honorary degrees from DePauw University, the University of Colorado, the University of Silesia, and the Medical College of Ohio. He has received the highest awards of the American College of Physicians (John Phillips Award), the National Kidney Foundation (David Hume Award), the American Society of Nephrology (John Peters Award), the International Society of Nephrology (Jean Hamburger Award), the German Society of Nephrology (Franz Vollhard Award), the Western Society of Clinical Investigation (Mayo Soley Award), the Association of Professors of Medicine (Robert H Williams Award), the American Kidney Fund (National Torchbearer Award), the Association of American Physicians (Francis Blake Award), the Acute Renal Failure Commission (Bywaters Award), the New York Academy of Medicine (The Edward N Gibbs Memorial Award), the University of Strasburg (Louis Pasteur Medal), as well as the Grand Hamdan International Award for Medical Sciences and the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award for his contributions to biomedical research, education, and clinical medicine.
