Peter S. Aronson, MD, FASN, Past President
Dr. Aronson received his undergraduate education at the University of Rochester and his medical education at New York University. He was an internal medicine resident at the University of North Carolina and a research fellow at the National Institutes of Health before coming to Yale as a nephrology fellow in 1974. He joined the Yale faculty in 1977, and was Chief of the Section of Nephrology from 1987-2002. Dr. Aronson has published articles and book chapters on the mechanisms regulating sodium, chloride, acid-base, and oxalate excretion by the kidney. He has received several awards and honors for his research work, including the Young Investigator Award of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) and American Heart Association in 1985, and the Homer W. Smith Award of the ASN in 1994. He served as President of the American Society of Nephrology in 2008. Dr. Aronson actively participates in the teaching of undergraduate, graduate, and medical students.