Peter Aronson is a professor of medicine (nephrology) and physiology in the medical school. He is a physician-scientist who has been involved in research training of medical students and postdoctoral fellows. Dr. Aronson received his undergraduate education at the University of Rochester and his medical education at New York University. He was an internal medicine resident at the University of North Carolina and a research fellow at the National Institutes of Health before coming to Yale as a renal fellow in 1974. He was Chief of the Section of Nephrology at Yale from 1987-2002. Dr. Aronson has published articles and book chapters on the mechanisms regulating sodium, acid-base, and oxalate excretion by the kidney, particularly as related to the formation of kidney stones. He has received a number of awards for his research work, including the Young Investigator Award of the American Society of Nephrology and American Heart Association in 1985, the Homer W. Smith Award of the ASN in 1994, election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009, and the Robert W. Berliner Award of the American Physiological Society in 2016. He served as President of the American Society of Nephrology in 2008. Dr. Aronson actively participates in the teaching of undergraduate, graduate and medical students, as well as residents and fellows. He was a co-recipient of the Charles W. Bohmfalk Teaching Prize in the Basic Sciences in 2005. Dr. Aronson is an Associate Director of the Yale M.D.-Ph.D. Program. He would be delighted to meet with students who have potential interest in careers in academic medicine and/or biomedical research. Please contact him via email.
