Robert William Schrier (1936 – 23 January 2021) was founding editor-in-chief of the magazine '' Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology''. Schrier was formerly Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the

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School of Medicine for 26 years, and Head of the Division of Renal Diseases and

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for 20 years. At the time of his death, he was Professor Emeritus at the

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. He died in

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Education

Schrier was born in

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, where he graduated from Thomas Carr Howe High School in 1953; he then went to

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where he received his bachelor's degree in 1957; and graduated with his MD in 1962 from

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with

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(AOA) honors. Residency in internal medicine at the

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in Seattle. Fellowship at Harvard at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital with George Thorn and David Lauler. He was a Fulbright Scholar (1957–58) and a Guggenheim Fellow (1986–87). Dr Schrier has been granted honorary degrees from DePauw University, the University of Colorado, the University of Silesia, and the Medical College of Ohio.

Affiliations

Schrier was at various times President of the

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; the

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; the

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; and the

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. Schrier was a Master of the

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and an Honorary Fellow of the

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. He was elected to the

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(formerly Institute of Medicine) of the National Academy of Science.

Scholarship

Schrier is the author of more than 1,000 scientific papers. He was the editor of ''Diseases of the Kidney and Urinary Tract'', ''Renal and Electrolyte Disorders'', ''Manual of Nephrology'' and ''Essential Atlas of Nephrology and Hypertension''. His research contributions center on autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, and pathogenesis of acute fluid volume in cirrhosis. cardiac failure, nephrotic syndrome, and pregnancy.

Awards

Schrier received awards from the

(John Phillips Award); the

(David Hume Award); the

(John Peters Award); the

(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

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(National Torchbearer Award); the

(Francis Blake Award); the Acute Renal Failure Commission (Bywaters Award); the

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(The Edward N Gibbs Memorial Award); the

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( Pasteur Medal); as well as the Grand Hamdan International Award for Medical Sciences; and the

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for his contributions to biomedical research, education, and clinical medicine;

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2007 Hall of Fame inductee. DePauw University Distinguished Alumni Award (1980), Silver Anniversary Achievement Award (1982), and Distinguished Alumnae Award for Profession Achievement (2001).

Distinguished Alumnus Award (2002). The

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awarded him the Eugene Braunwald Academic Mentorship Award in 2012.

Sports

At DePauw University he was three times all Conference (Butler, Valparaiso, Indiana State, Ball State, and Evansville) in both basketball and baseball. His four-year 20 points/game conference average in basketball stood for 30 years and still stands at DePauw. Schrier was elected to the DePauw University Athletic Hall of Fame (1986) and the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 2004.

Other publications

Schrier published the book ''Profiles of American Presidents in the Twentieth Century: Merits and Maladies'' in 2011. The illnesses of seventeen United States Presidents in the twentieth century are analyzed and described accordingly to the periods of their administration. In 2012 he published, ''Moral Courage: Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Martin Luther King, Jr.'' about these four freedom fighters whose common enemy was injustice and inequality. In 2014, he published ''Life's Lessons Learned: My Memoir''.

References

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