My guest is Doctor Gerald Appel of Columbia University Medical Center and our subject is the public health time bomb regarding; obesity, diabetes and kidney disease.

          

                 Dr. Gerald Appel                 Alonzo Mourning, Jerry Appel, Pat Ewing

Gerald B. Appel is an American physician and kidney researcher known both for his celebrity patients and for his scholarly work on the renal manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosis. He is also one of  the world's foremost authority on diseases of the kidney filtershaving published almost three hundred manuscripts and book chapters on the subject.

Appel is currently Professor of Medicine and Director of Clinical Nephrology at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City, where he also runs the Center for Glomerular Diseases, the nation's largest  center for research into the treatment of intrinsic diseases of the filters of the  kidney. Dr. Appel is a past president of the NY Society of Nephrology, and has won numerous awards including those from  the e National Kidney Foundation, Distinguished Teaching awards form Columbia University College of physicians and Surgeons, The Albert Douglas award from the NY Medical Society, and the NephCure Foundation.

Appel gained widespread recognition during the early 2000s for his role in the treatment of  professional basketball player Alonzo Mourning and for enabling Mourning to return to the court for an NBA championship after receiving a kidney transplant . However, Appel had previously treated numerous other celebrities, including, and Chicago White Sox co-owner Eddie Einhorn at the time of that team's World Series victory in 2005. He has written about kidney disease for the lay public, most notably in Positive Approaches to Living with End Stage Renal Disease (1986) with celebrity transplant surgeon Mark A. Hardy. Dr. Appel is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Cornell University, in three years with “distinction in all subjects.” He graduated from the Albert Einstein of Medicine, Bronx, NY and did his internship and residency at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, NY, NY. He trained in nephrology, the study of kidney disease, at Columbia and Yale University. Since 1994, he has been listed in “best Doctors in America.”

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