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Dr. Juha P. Kokko is the recipient of the 2005 Berliner/Abbott Award. In 1964, Dr. Kokko became the first student to graduate from Emory’s combined M.D./Ph.D. program. After graduation, Dr. Kokko did his internship and residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospitals and then became a Clinical Associate and Chief Resident at the National Heart Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1969, Dr. Kokko moved to Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, where he established the technique of perfusing isolated kidney tubules in vitro and rapidly rose through the academic ranks to be promoted to Professor of Medicine and Chief of Nephrology within just 5 years. In Texas, he authored more than 100 original works with the central theme of mechanisms of salt and water transport across various nephron segments. The clinical significance of this work has been the understanding of salt, acid-base, and volume homeostasis in health and disease. He also has authored a number of books and book chapters including Fluid and Electrolytes, which he coedited with Richard Tannen, M.D., and has been one of six principal editors of Cecil’s Textbook of Medicine. He has trained over 100 postdoctoral fellows, many of whom are now directors of Divisions of Nephrology at other prestigious universities. In 1984, he was elected as the president of the American Society of Nephrology. Dr. Kokko was recruited in 1986 to become the Asa G. Candler Professor and Chairman of Medicine of Emory School of Medicine and now is an Emeritus Professor of Medicine who still enjoys participating in various Emory teaching missions.



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