"Neural Control of Somatic Function: The Future of Physiology and Medicine"

Made possible by the Henry M. Winans Professorship Fund

Speaker:

Mark Zeidel, M.D.
Herrman L. Blumgart Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Chair, Department of Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

About Mark Zeidel:

Dr. Zeidel received his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed internal medicine residency and nephrology fellowship training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh, where he served as chief of the renal and electrolyte division, and then as the Jack D. Myers Professor and chair of the Department of Medicine. He joined the Harvard Medical School faculty in 2005 and became Chair of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Dr. Zeidel has made many seminal observations in the field of nephrology: defining the role of atrial peptides in renal salt excretion, characterizing the biophysical function of water channels and barrier membranes, and advancing urothelial cell biology.

His lab focuses on fundamental research questions in animal models that attempt to understand how the brain regulates kidney function and hence blood pressure, the precise neural circuitry that controls how and when we urinate, and attempts to create realistic mouse models of urinary tract disease, so that we gain scientific insights that can lead to better treatments for patients. His group uses state-of-the-art techniques in next generation single cell RNA sequencing, opto- and chemo-genetics, neural tracing, fMRI, Cre-recombinase reporter mice, electrophysiology and in vivo physiological measurements.