awards

The John P. Peters Award

The John P. Peters Award recognizes individuals who have made substantial research contributions to the discipline of nephrology and have sustained achievements in one or more domains of academic medicine including clinical care, education and leadership. Established in 1983, this annual award is named for one of the fathers of the discipline of nephrology.

Dr. Peters spent his entire faculty career at Yale University where he was chief of the Metabolic Division in the Department of Medicine from 1922-1955. Building on the principles of his mentor, Donald Van Slyke, Dr. Peters transformed clinical chemistry from a discipline of qualitative impressions to one of precise quantitative measurements. These advances changed the nature of measurements of body fluids into a vital part of the patient examination, capable of great explanatory power. He advanced the view that disease was a quantitative abnormality of normal physiological processes; and that by understanding disease, one could gain deeper understanding of normal processes.

His enduring scientific contributions paralleled his intense commitment to the care of the sick and a fervent mission to ensure that the physician was an advocate for the patient. These many qualities stand as a lofty monument to the art and science of nephrology.

Award Winners

• 2009 William E. Mitch, III, MD, FASN
• 2008 Robert J. Alpern
• 2007 Giuseppe Remuzzi
• 2006 Gerhard H. Giebisch
• 2005 Eric G. Neilson
• 2004 Charles B. Carpenter
• 2003 Eberhard Ritz
• 2002 Alfred F. Michael
• 2001 C. Craig Tisher
• 2000 Barry Brenner
• 1999 Ramzi Cotran
• 1998 Saulo Klahr
• 1997 Robert W. Schrier
• 1996 Robert Vernier and Clark West
• 1995 Charles R. Kleeman
• 1994 Willem J. Kolff
• 1993 Robert Heptinstall and Priscilla Kincaid-Smith
• 1992 Arnold Relman and William B. Schwartz
• 1991 Neal S. Bricker and Roscoe R. Robinson
• 1990 John H. Laragh and Louis Tobian
• 1989 George E. Schreiner
• 1988 Renee Habib and Henry Barnett
• 1987 Conrad L. Pirani and Jacob Churg
• 1986 Belding H. Scribner
• 1985 Franklin H. Epstein
• 1984 John P. Merrill and Jean Hamburger
• 1983 Donald W. Seldin