Scientific Advisory Board

Gerald Appel, M.D., Ph.D.
Director of Clinical Nephrology,
Professor of Clinical Medicine
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia
630 W. 168th Street, Suite PH 4-124
New York, NY 10032                             
Business:          (212)305-3273, (212) 305 0320 
Business Fax:   (212)305-6692
Email:               gba2@columbia.edu, nephroman@msn.com      

Dr. Gerald Appel is a Professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University, as well as the University’s Director of Clinical Nephrology. Dr. Appel has been an attending physician at Columbia University Medical Center since 1989. He is also the Director of the Glomeruler Disease Center at the University. Dr. Appel has served as President of the New York Society of Nephrology and on Medical Advisory Boards of the New York-New Jersey branch of the National Kidney Foundation. In 1998, Dr. Appel was the recipient of the Lester Hoenig Award, the highest award given by the National Kidney Foundation of New York/New Jersey. Dr. Appel was also nominated in New York Magazine’s Best Doctors 2008.

Dr. Appel attended medical school at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine. He completed both his internship and residency at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. He accomplished Fellowships in Nephrology at both Columbia Presbyterian and Yale-New Haven