MED Prof Named Outstanding Physician
MED’s David Salant receives the 2008 Outstanding Physician in Nephrology Award
David Salant, a School of Medicine professor of medicine, pathology, and laboratory medicine and chief of the Boston Medical Center section of nephrology, recently received the 2008 Outstanding Physician in Nephrology Award from the National Kidney Foundation of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Vermont.
He was nominated by Ted Steinman, a Harvard Medical School professor of medicine and a nephrologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, for distinguished contributions as a medical scientist and educator and for his reputation as a highly skilled and caring physician.
Salant’s research, which has been funded by the National Institutes of Health for the past 25 years, has contributed to a better understanding of the causes of diseases of the glomeruli, small structures inside the kidney where blood is cleaned.
A graduate of the University of Witwatersrand Medical School in Johannesburg, South Africa, Salant completed a residency in internal medicine at Johannesburg General Hospital. He is a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine and has served on the medical advisory board of the National Kidney Foundation of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Vermont for 20 years as well as on other scientific, educational, and advisory committees.
Rebecca McNamara can be reached at ramc@bu.edu.
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