Julian Seifter, M.D. 

Dr. Julian Seifter is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School,an attending physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, chairman of the Human Subjects Committee at Brigham’s and Women’s Hospital, Associate Master of the Cannon Society at Harvard Medical School, and a member of many academic committees and associations. He is the author of numerous scientific papers, journal articles, and textbook chapters on renal transport and physiology, and the author of Concepts in Medical Physiology (Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins, 2005). He wrote a book on chronic illness, After the Diagnosis (Simon & Schuster), published in 2010. He is involved in medical education at Harvard at every level, from first-year trainees to residents to post-doctoral fellows, and is the recipient of numerous teaching awards (including the George Thorn Award for Outsatanding Contribution to Housestaff Education; at Brigaham and Women's Hospital, four Harvard Faculty Prizes for Excellence in Teaching, Three Class Day Awards for Best Pre-Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical School and most recently, Best Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical School in June 2009). He also teaches in continuing medical education courses nationwide. He has experience as a speaker both nationally and internationally on scientific, medical, and ethical subjects. He has been on Top Doctor lists locally, nationally, and internationally for the last fifteen years. He is a member of many medical organizations, including the American Society of Nephrology, the International Society of Nephrology, the National Kidney Foundation, and the Massachusetts Medical Society, and has visited Native American communities across the U.S. and traveled to Taiwan, Mexico, Brazil, England, Ireland, Germany, Russia, China, and Turkey to teach nephrology at medical centers in those countries. He consulted with ethicists in Nuremberg on the anniversary of the Nazi doctor trials, and with the Boston Marathon about hyponatremia in marathon runners.