Dr. Robert Schrier, Professor Emeritus of Medicine, 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. In 1989 he was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He has been President of the Association of American Physicians, American Society of Nephrology, National Kidney Foundation, and International Society of Nephrology. Dr. Schrier is a Master of the American College of Physicians and Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He has authored over 900 scientific papers and edited numerous books including editions in internal medicine, geriatrics, drug usage, and kidney disease. His research contributions center on autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, pathogenesis of acute renal cell injury, hypertension and diabetic nephropathy, and renal and hormonal control of body fluid volume in cirrhosis, cardiac failure, nephrotic syndrome, and pregnancy. He brings to his research interests a unique combination of expertise in body fluid control mechanisms, renal function, and cardiovascular function. He has advanced a unifying hypothesis of sodium and water regulation in health and disease, stimulating worldwide interest in the biomedical science community. Dr. Schrier's research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health for over 35 years.Dr. Schrier has recently published the following books, available on Amazon.com* Profiles of American Presidents in the Twentieth Century: Merits and Maladies* Moral Courage: Abraham Lincoln, Mahatmas Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Martin Luther King Jr,* Life's Lessons Learned: My Memoir