Awards in the Division of Nephrology
Awards and Honors
Dr. Vikas P. Sukhatme was appointed the first Chief, Division of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology, 2007, Vice-Chair of Medicine for Interdepartmental and Translational Programs, and Chief Academic Officer, 2008, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Dr. Robert S. Brown received the Parker J Palmer "Courage to Teach" Award given by the ACME, 2008.
Dr. S. Ananth Karumanchi received the Preeclampsia Foundation's Hope Award, the American Society of Hypertension's Young Scholar Award, and was inducted into the American Society of Clinical Investigation. Dr. Karumanchi is the first ever Howard Hughes recipient at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 2008. ASN, Young Investigator Award, 2008.
Dr. Seth Alper was an invited speaker at The Frontiers in Epithelial Transport (Phys Soc), Manchester, UK and at the Satellite Symposium of the 7th Annual Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society, Gottingen, Germany. He delivered the Robert W. Schrier Endowed Lectureship at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Nephrology, San Diego, CA.
Dr. Ogo Egbuna received an NIH-NIDDK career development award, and the Pfizer-Merck-HST Clinical Investigator training program award.
Dr. Franklin Epstein received the Edward W. Gibbs Award of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Current and Recent Fellowship Awardees
Dr. Gabor Bodonyi-Kovacs received an Amgen Nephrology Fellowship Award (2007)
George Altman, MD and Harriet Altman Annual Nephrology Traveling Fellowship given in Dr. Ted Steinman's Honor Awardees:
This Award is given annually through the generosity of Dr. George Altman's Family.
2009 This year's award supported the current fellow's attendance at ESRD: State of the Art and Charting the Challenges for the Future, a symposium co-chaired by Dr. Steinman and held in the Boston area.
2008 Dr. Denise Tam
2007 Dr. Heather Towery
2006 Dr. George Bayliss
