Recognition & Awards
David M. Hume Memorial Award
The David M. Hume Award was created in memory of one of the National Kidney Foundation’s most distinguished members. The Hume Award is the highest honor given to a distinguished scientist-clinician in the field of kidney and urologic diseases. It is bestowed upon an individual who exemplifies the high ideals of scholarship and humanitarianism in an outstanding manner. The 2010 award recipient is John Sedor, MD.
Dr. John Sedor
Dr. John Sedor graduated from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and trained in Medicine at University Hospitals of Cleveland/CWRU (C.C.J. Carpenter, M.D., Physician-in-Chief). He received training in Nephrology at CWRU (Michael Dunn, M.D., Program Director), where his post-doctoral research with Dr. Hanna Abboud was focused on mesangial cell signaling. He remained on the CWRU faculty, where he is the Research Endowment Professor of Medicine. Dr. Sedor was named Nephrology Division Chief at the CWRU MetroHealth System campus in 1991, and subsequently became the Vice-President for Research for the MetroHealth System CWRU campus in 2003.
Dr. Sedor is a recognized leader in kidney disease research and treatment. He was recipient of The Mather Charitable Foundation Young Scholar Award (1987-1990) and an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association (1989-1994). He has received funding from the NIH for over 20 years. He was the Principal Investigator for the CWRU Western Reserve University O’Brien Renal Center from 1998-2003. At the national level, Dr. Sedor served two terms as a permanent member of NIH study sections, and he has been a frequent reviewer for the American Heart Association, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International, and the National Kidney Foundation. He has chaired the Veterans Administration Nephrology Merit Review Board. Dr. Sedor has held many key medical volunteer positions in the American Society of Nephrology (including Chair of the Clinical Research Committee, member of the Basic Science Research Committee, member of the Annual Meeting Program Committee (twice).
In the local community, Dr. Sedor is a longstanding member of the Board of Trustees at the Kidney Foundation of Ohio. He has chaired that organization’s Medical Advisory Board (MAB) and has served on the Cleveland Minority Tissue and Transplant Education Program MAB. He is a member of the Association of American Physicians and serves on numerous editorial boards, including the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Kidney International, American Journal of Nephrology and Seminars of Nephrology. Finally, Dr. Sedor is a member of the External Advisory Committee of the NIDDK consortium, Animal Models of Diabetic Complications Consortium (AMDCC) and chairs the Data Safety Monitoring Board for the NIDDK FSGS Clinical Trial.
Past Recipients
2009 – Brian J.G. Pereira, MD, MBA
2008 – Lawrence Hunsicker, MD
2007 – William G. Couser, MD
2006 – Frank L. Delmonico, MD
2005 – Charles B. Carpenter, MD
2004 – John Stewart Cameron, MD
2003 – Franklin H. Epstein, MD
2002 – Barry M. Brenner, MD
2001 – William E. Mitch, MD
2000 – [No Award]
1999 – Neil A. Kurtzman, MD
1998 – Jared J. Grantham, MD
1997 – Thomas E. Andreoli, MD
1996 – Edmund G. Lowrie, MD
1995 – Joseph W. Eschbach, MD
1994 – Wadi N. Suki, MD
1993 – Joel D. Kopple, MD
1992 – Saulo Klahr, MD
1991 – Prof. August Heidland
1990 – Richard J. Glassock, MD
1989 – Prof. Priscilla Kincaid-Smith
1988 – Shaul G. Massry, MD
1987 – Robert W. Schrier, MD
1986 – Robert Heptinstall, MD
1985 – Willem J. Jolff, MD
1984 – Charles R. Kleeman, MD
1983 – Robert W. Berliner, MD
1982 – Prof. Hugh E. de Wardener
1981 – Donald W. Seldin, MD
1980 – George E. Schreiner, MD
1979 – John P. Merrill, MD
1978 – Thomas E. Starzl, MD
1977 – Henry L. Barnett, MD
1976 – Carl. W. Gottschalk, MD
1975 – Belding Scribner, MD
1974 – Robert M. Kark, MD
1973 – Jean Hamburger, MD