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American nephrologist whose research contributions center on autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, pathogenesis of acute fluid volume in cirrhosis, cardiac failure, nephrotic syndrome, and pregnancy. 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 Lifes Lessons Learned: My Memoir. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the magazine Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology. Schrier was formerly Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine for 26 years, and Head of the Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension for 20 years. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less