Eduardo Slatopolsky, MD

Additional Titles

• Director, Parathyroid Hormone/Vitamin D Laboratory
• Founder, Chronic Dialysis Program, Washington University
• Director, Chromalloy American Kidney Center for 30 years

Mailing Address

Education

• MD: University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina (1959)
• Research Assistant: Institute of Medical Research, Buenos Aires, Argentina (1959-1960)
• Intern: Mount Sinai Hospital, Cleveland, OH (1960-1962)
• Senior Assistant Medical Resident: Mount Sinai Hospital, Cleveland, OH (1962-1963)
• USPHS Post Doctoral Trainee: Renal Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine (1963-1965)

Board Certifications

• Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1959
• Educational Council of Foreign Medical Graduates, USA, 1960
• State Board of Medical Examiners of Virginia, 1962
• State Board of Medical Examiners of Missouri, 1967

Recognition

Honors and Awards

1978
Fellow, American College of Physicians

1978
Honorary Member of the Colombian Society of Nephrology

1986
Honorary Member of the Argentinean Society of Nephrology

1991
Frederic C. Bartter Award, American Society for Bone and Mineral Research

1991
Honorary Member of the Argentinean Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism

1995
Honorary Member of the Chilean Society of Nephrology

1997
Award of Excellence, National Kidney Foundation and Metro East

1998
Honorary Member, Polish Society of Nephrology

1999
Belding H. Scribner Award of the American Society of Nephrology

2000
Honorary President of the Santa Fe Society of Nephrology, Argentina

2000
Award of the Eleventh Workshop on Vitamin D in “Recognition of Career Contributions to Vitamin D Research”

2001
Honorary Member, Italian Society of Nephrology

2004
Victor Miatello Award of the Latin-American Society of Nephrology and Hypertension

2004
Honorary Member of the Spanish Society of Nephrology

2007
Amgen International Award of the International Society of Nephrology, Rio, Brazil

2009
Peter H. Raven Lifetime Achievement Award of the St. Louis Academy of Science

2011
Fellow, Academy of Science of St. Louis

2013
Lifetime Achievement “Master Physician” Award, Barnes-Jewish Hospital

2013
Friends of the National Kidney Foundation Award

2014
12^th International Vicenza Award, Vicenza, Italy

Clinical Interests

Clinical Titles
Director, Chromalloy American Kidney Center, 1967-1997
Co-Director, Renal Division, 1967-1997
Director, PTH/Vitamin D Laboratory, 1970-Present
Physician, Barnes Hospital, 1972- Present
Renal Consultant, Barnes Hospital, 1965-1997
Renal Consultant, Jewish Hospital, 1965-1997

Teaching Titles
Joseph Friedman Professor of Renal Diseases in Medicine, 1991-Present

Research Interests

Research Interests: Recognized for contributions to the understanding of the pathophysiology of renal diseases. The Slatopolsky Lab was one of the first to demonstrate that phosphate retention in both humans and animals increases secretion of parathyroid hormone (PTH). Elevated PTH levels are found in patients with chronic renal disease and are linked to significant bone resorption and pathological bone fractures.

His team also was the first to demonstrate that vitamin D has a direct effect on the suppression of PTH in patients with renal failure. Other research has found that a low phosphate diet can reduce both vascular calcification and mortality in rats with advanced renal insufficiency.