Scott J. Gilbert, MD, FASN
Citation: Kidney News 16, 10/11
Scott J. Gilbert, MD, FASN, will receive the Robert G. Narins Award on Friday, October 25, for his many efforts in the education and training of the next generation of nephrologists. Dr. Gilbert is professor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and a nephrologist at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, MA. He also directs the nephrology fellowship program and core faculty of the internal medicine residency program.
At Tufts University School of Medicine, he has led the first-year renal course for more than 20 years, coordinates the fourth-year consultative nephrology elective, and leads sessions in courses on problem-based learning, introduction to clinical reasoning, and medical ethics. He is an academic coach for 20 medical students through their 4-year medical school experience.
He is active in premedical mentoring at Tufts University, serving as faculty adviser to the Minority Association of Pre-Health Students, an organization for racial and ethnic minorities who are under-represented in health care, with an interest in the health professions, as well as the Kidney Disease Screening and Awareness Program, a student-run organization that provides blood pressure, blood sugar, and urinalysis screening in underserved communities in the Boston area.
Dr. Gilbert recently engaged in programs to promote diversity in medicine as a program leader and career mentor in the Tufts University School of Medicine/University of Massachusetts Boston Enrichment Program and through the development and oversight of a summer clinical immersion program for undergraduate students who are under-represented and underserved and are “first in family” to attend college, showcasing career opportunities in health care that they might not have known about. He is editor of the National Kidney Foundation's Primer on Kidney Diseases, previously served as education editor for the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, and chaired the ASN Workforce and Training Committee.
He attended Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, before completing an internal medicine residency and nephrology fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
