Richard Glassock
USA
2025 KI Best Reviewer
Kidney International®(KI) reviewers were evaluated by number of reviews completed, quality of each review as assessed by the KI Associate Editors, and length of time manuscripts were under review.
Dr. Richard Glassock is currently Professor Emeritus at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, in Los Angeles, California, USA, and an independent medical consultant. He graduated from the UCLA School of Medicine in 1960. He received post-graduate training at UCLA, Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and Scripps Research Institute (San Diego, California).
Dr. Glassock is the past-president of the American Society of Nephrology, the National Kidney Foundation (USA), and past-chairman of the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is the former chair of the departments of medicine at the University of Kentucky (1992-1999) and Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (1980-1992). He is a master of The American College of Physicians and a fellow of The Royal College of Physicians (UK). He has published over 750 original papers, books, book chapters, and reviews. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the NephSAP Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (2002). He is an editor of the nephrology section of UpToDate, and a founding moderator of The ASN Communities online site.
Dr. Glassock has received the David Hume Memorial Award of the National Kidney Foundation, The Robert Narins Award of the American Society of Nephrology, Distinguished Achievement Awards from UCLA and the Association of Professors of Medicine, The Torchbearer Award of the American Kidney Fund, and the Medal of Excellence Award from the American Association of Kidney Patients.
The ISN-KI Early Career Researchers will be acknowledged in The ISN-KI Editorial Fellows Session: The Best of 2025 KI Articles, taking place on Monday, March 30, from 9:25-10:55 a.m. Japan Time in room 315.