A world-renowned specialist on kidney
There will be a memorial service on Monday, June 5, for world-renowned pediatric nephrologist and School of Medicine faculty member Dr. Norman Siegel, who died April 28.
The service will take place at 1 p.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of College and Elm streets. A reception will follow at the Graduate Club, 155 Elm St.
Siegel was professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine and founding director of the Section of Pediatric Nephrology. He was also physician-in-chief at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital.
A Texas native and graduate of Tulane University (B.A. 1964) and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston (M.A. and M.D., both 1968), Siegel came to Yale in 1968 as an intern in pediatrics. He continued on as a research fellow in nephrology in the laboratories of Drs. Michael Kashgarian and John Hayslett and rose through the ranks to become a tenured professor in 1982.
In his research with Dr. Fredric Finkelstein and others, Siegel established the first classification system for the pathology of kidney transplant rejection, allowing clinicians to predict outcomes based on biopsy results. Siegel conducted innovative studies of kidney disease in children, particularly in the areas of glomerulonephritis, lupus and minimal change disease. He led research in renal hemodynamics and metabolic alterations of the kidney during acute renal failure, and, with Dr. Robert Shulman, he pioneered the use of nuclear magnetic resonance methods of assessing adenine nucleotide metabolism of the kidney in vivo. His cellular and molecular biological studies of the role of heat shock proteins in ischemic renal injury have provided insight into potential new therapeutic pathways for the management of acute kidney injury. He was the author of more than 200 publications and co-editor of the classic textbook "Rudolph's Pediatrics."
A noted teacher and mentor, Siegel nurtured the early careers of numerous postdoctoral fellows and pediatric residents who continued on to faculty positions around the nation.
"His teaching went beyond the teaching of medical students and residents to the education of the parents of the children he cared for, making lasting impressions that remained decades after their treatment," said Medical School Dean Dr. Robert Alpern.
In the Department of Pediatrics, Siegel served as vice chair (1979-2000) and leader of the house staff program. He was acting chair on two occasions and interim chair 2000-2002. He was a member of the board of governors of the Yale Medical Group (YMG), chair of the YMG Finance Committee and spearheaded many YMG initiatives. He was also a leader of the medical school committee that created the clinician educator track at Yale. Last year, he headed a school-wide strategic planning process at the request of the dean.
Siegel was elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation in 1983 and served as president of the American Society of Nephrology in 2002. He also held leadership positions in the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology, the International Society of Pediatric Nephrology, the National Kidney Foundation, the Society for Pediatric Research, the American Pediatric Society and the American Board of Pediatrics, among other organizations. He served on numerous scientific review groups of the National Institutes of Health and was on the editorial boards of several scientific journals.
Siegel is survived by his wife, Rise; his children, Andrew and Karen; his mother, Ida; and his brother, Bryan. The family has requested that contributions be sent to The Dr. Norman Siegel Memorial Fund, c/o Janney Montgomery Scott at 555 Long Wharf Dr., 5th Floor, New Haven, CT 06511.
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