This annual lecture series has been named The Thomas E. Andreoli Lecture Series. Presenters are selected by distinguished members of the Division of Nephrology.
Thomas E. Andreoli, MD is Distinguished Professor, Departments of Internal Medicine and Physiology and Biophysics, and the Nolan Professor and Chair Emeritus of Internal Medicine at the University of Arkansas College of Medicine. He received his M. D., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University and trained in Internal Medicine and Physiology at Duke University and at the NIH. After five years on the Duke faculty, he joined UAB as Director of Nephrology in 1970. He served as Editor of the American Journal of Physiology: Renal Physiology and Kidney International.
Dr. Andreoli has held numerous leadership positions, including President of the American Society of Nephrology and the International Society of Nephrology. He has received prestigious awards, such as the Homer W. Smith Award from the American Society of Nephrology; David M. Hume Memorial Award of the National Kidney Foundation; Robert H. Williams Distinguished Chair of Medicine Award from the Association of Professors of Medicine; the Louis Pasteur Medal from the Université Louis Pasteur; Robert W. Berliner Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology from the American Physiological Society. The Thomas E. Andreoli Professorship in Nephrology was endowed at the University of Alabama School of Medicine in 2001.
The 5th Thomas Andreoli Lecture - November 12, 2008
Bernard C. Rossier, M.D.
Professor of Pharmacology
and Toxicology,
Institut de Pharmacologie
Lausanne Switzerland
“Epithelial Sodium Channel Salt Intake and Blood Pressure Control: The Story of our Internal Environment Revisitedâ€
           Bernard Rossier received his MD in 1966 from the University of Lausanne(UNIL). After his physiology training at the Institute of Physiology at UNIL, followed by his medical training in the Departement of Medicine of the University of Geneva and his post-doctoral training with Isidore Edelman at the University of California San Francisco, he joined the Department of Pharmacology of UNIL in 1974. He has been leading his own research team since then. He has been Professor of Phamacology and Toxicology (1981-2006), Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology (1990 - 2006), Dean of the Faculty of Medicine (1996-200). He his presently Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology (2006 - ). He is european co-ordinator of the Transatlantic Network of Excellence in Hypertension of the Leducq Foundation. He is recipient of many international Prizes in the field of nephrology. He is a member of EMBO, the Academia Europaea, the deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, and is a Foreign Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is Dr. honoris causa of the University Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. He is member of the Louis Jeantet Foundation in Geneva and the Cloetta Foundation in Zurich and the Leenards Foudation in Lausanne.
Keywords: epithelial sodium channel (ENaC), mendelian forms of hypertension, physiology, pharmacology and genetics of transepithelial sodium tranport and blood pressure control, aldosterone
Past lecturers have included:
Phillip Darwin Bell, Ph.D.
Thomas E. Andreoli Professor of Nephrology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Macula Densa Cells: The Brain of the Kidneyâ€
March 10, 2004
Edmund J. Lewis, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Director of Nephrology
Rush University Medical Center
“Diabetic Nephropathy: where have we been and where are we goingâ€
March 8, 2005
Peter C. Agre, M.D.
Nobel Laureate
Professor of Cell Biology
Vice Chancellor for Science & Technology
Duke University Medical Center
Presents
Nobel Prize Lecture
"Aquaporin Water Channels:Â from Atomic Structure to Clinical Medicine"
October 18, 2006
Tilman B. Drueke, M.D.
Director of Research
Necker Hospital
PARIS
“Anemia Correction in Patients with
Chronic Kidney Diseaseâ€
November 7, 2007