Seminars and Conferences

The Section of Nephrology sponsors a variety of seminars and conferences on clinical and research topics of relevance to nephrology and hypertension.

Section of Nephrology Event Online Calendar

Calendars can also be downloaded in pdf format:

• Calendar for July 2008 (Acrobat reader needed)

Special Lecture Series

• The Robert W. Berliner Annual Lecture.
• The John Punnett Peters Annual Lecture.
• Invited Nephrology Lecture Series.

Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis

• First Annual Symposium on NSF and Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents: Yale University, May 4, 2007.
• Second Annual Symposium on NSF and Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents: Yale University, May 10, 2008.

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The Robert W. Berliner Annual Lecture:

The annual Robert W. Berliner Lecture is jointly sponsored by the Section of Nephrology and the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology. It honors Robert W. Berliner, M.D., who made major contributions to the foundations of modern renal physiology, who was a major driving force in making the NIH the leading biomedical research institution in the world, and who was Dean of the Yale School of Medicine from 1973-1984.

Past lecturers have included:

1992 Maurice B. Burg
1994 Barry M. Brenner
1995 Steven C. Hebert
1996 Bernard C. Rossier
1997 Mark A. Knepper
1998 Robert J. Alpern
1999 Thomas E. Andreoli
2000 Heini Murer
2001 Jürgen Schnermann
2002 René J.M. Bindels
2003 Thomas J. Jentsch
2004 Peter C. Agre
2005 Qais Al-Awqati
2006 Chris Wilcox
2007 Jared Grantham

The John Punnett Peters Annual Lecture:

The annual John Punnett Peters Lecture is jointly sponsored by the Section of Nephrology and the Section of Endocrinology, which are derived from the Section of Metabolism that Dr. Peters founded and led at Yale from 1922-1955. Dr. Peters was a major contributor to establishing the scientific basis for understanding fluid and electrolyte disorders in man, and thereby was one of the founders of nephrology as an academic discipline.

Recent lecturers have included:

1990 Bert W. O’Malle
1991 Barry M. Brenner
1992 Daniel W. Foster
1993 Charles B. Carpenter
1994 Donald F. Steiner
1995 Mitchell L. Halperin
1996 Jeffrey Friedman
1997 William G. Couser
1998 Jean D. Wilson
1999 Steven C. Hebert
2000 Michael O. Thorner
2001 Joseph V. Bonventre
2002 Leon Eisenberg
2003 Lawrence Turka
2004 Michael Brown
2005 Vikas Sukhatme
2006 Wylie Vale
2007 Thomas Coffman

Invited Nephrology Lecture Series:

This lecture series is sponsored by the Yale section of Nephrology and is supported by unrestricted educational grants from Amgen Inc, Genzyme Corporation, Astellas Pharma Inc. and Abbott Laboratories.

Past lecturers included:

2003 Robert Toto
2004 Jonathan Himmelfarb
2004 Glen Markowitz
2004 George Chandy
2004 Kamal Badr
2005 Manoocher Soleimani
2005 Ravi Thadhani
2005 Peter Sawaya
2006 Dominic Sica
2006 Emilio Poggio
2006 Amit Garg
2007 Paolo Raggi
2007 Maryam Banikazemi
2007 Paul Palevsky
2008 Sharon Moe
2008 Ahad Ghods
2008 Tomas Berl