Honorary Members of the Polish Society of Nephrology. Part XL — Professor Eduardo Alberto Slatopolsky

Abstract

This is the 40th publication in a series exploring honorary members of the Polish Society of Nephrology (PTN). The 39th edition featured Professor Tilman Bernhard Drüeke, a French physician and scholar. A graduate of the University of Tübingen in Germany, he spent much of his career at the Necker Hospital in Paris and later led the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research. Active in scientific societies, he frequently visited Poland, including Warsaw, Katowice, and Krakow, for key nephrology events.

The 40th instalment highlights Professor Eduardo Alberto Slatopolsky, an internationally distinguished nephrologist. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1934, he earned his medical degree at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1960, he moved to the United States, working at Mount Sinai Hospital in Cleveland before joining the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis in 1963, where he remained for nearly 50 years. His primary focus was the pathophysiology of kidney diseases, particularly parathyroid dysfunction in chronic renal failure. Widely recognized for his contributions, he received numerous international awards and became an honorary PTN member in 1998.