Gerald B. Appel (born 1947) 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 erythematosus. He is also the world's foremost authority on diseases of the glomerulus, having published more than one hundred academic papers 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 USA's largest institute for research into the treatment of intrinsic diseases of the kidney. The National Kidney Foundation awarded Appel its lifetime achievement award in 2005, naming him "the foremost academic nephrologist of the past twenty-five years."
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1947 (age 78)
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