Richard Jay Solomon MD, FASN, FACP

Richard Solomon, MD, FASN, FACP is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine and the Director of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington, Vermont. He received his MD degree from Yale Medical School, trained in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and Nephrology at Harvard Medical School. He is interested in acute kidney injury and in particular prevention of contrast induced nephropathy (CIN). He has been the principle investigator for a number of important trials in CIN prevention. He is a frequent reviewer for journals in Nephrology, Cardiology, and Radiology on the subject of acute kidney injury. He is a member of a number of Data Safety and Monitoring Boards for national trials. He is a member of the NIH consortium for biomarkers of kidney injury. In addition to interests in acute kidney injury, he has been involved in studies of comparative physiology for the past 25 years at the Mt. Desert Island Marine Biology Laboratory and an instructor in courses for medical residents who come to the laboratory.