Gerald B. Appel (born 1947) is an American medical doctor and kidney researcher known both for his celebrity patients and for his scholarly work on the renal manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus and other diseases of the

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, the filters of the

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. He has also published more than three hundred academic papers and book chapters on diseases of the glomeruli. At Columbia University he established the first center for glomerular diseases In the United States. Appel is currently professor of medicine and co-director of clinical nephrology at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City, where he also runs the Center for Glomerular Diseases. The National Kidney Foundation awarded Appel its lifetime achievement award in 2005, naming him "the foremost academic nephrologist of the past twenty-five years." Appel gained widespread recognition during the early 2000s for his role in securing a kidney transplant for the professional basketball player

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and for enabling Mourning to return to the court for an NBA championship. However, Appel had also treated numerous other celebrities, including a dying

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in the mid-1970s and the late Chicago White Sox co-owner

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at the time of that team's World Series victory in 2005. He also worked on former

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star WR Donald Jones. In addition to Appel's other achievements, he is an associate editor of the kidney disease section of ''Up To Date,'' a major online reference for nephrologists all over the world.

Family life

He has published several academic papers with his wife, Alice Sue Appel, Ph.D. He is the father of

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Jacob M. Appel Jacob M. Appel (born February 21, 1973) is an American polymath, author, bioethicist, physician, lawyer, and social critic.Nagamatsu, Sequoia "A Few Words with the Ubiquitous Jacob M. Appel" ''Prince Mincer'' Journal http://primemincer.com/ con ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Appel, Gerald 1947 births Living people American nephrologists American Rhodes Scholars Columbia University faculty Columbia Medical School faculty People from Scarsdale, New York