Peter S. Aronson, MD

C. N. H. Long Professor of Medicine (Nephrology) and Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology

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Departments & Organizations

Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development | Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology

Yale Medical Group

Cellular & Molecular Physiology: Membrane Proteins - Pumps and Transporters | Epithelial Transport of Ions and Solutes | Physiology of Human Disease | Physiology and Integrative Medical Biology Track | Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Internal Medicine: Nephrology

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Biography

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 renal fellow in 1974. He was Chief of the Section of Nephrology at Yale from 1987-2002. Dr. Aronson has published articles and book chapters on renal electrolyte and acid-base physiology. He has received a number of awards for his research work, including the Young Investigator Award of the American Society of Nephrology 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, as well as residents and fellows.  He was a co-recipient of theCharles W. Bohmfalk Teaching Prize in the Basic Sciences in 2005, and is currently an Associate Director of the Yale M.D.-Ph.D. Program.