Department of Internal Medicine
Nephrology Faculty
Medical School:
Tufts University
Residency:
University of Pennsylvania
Fellowship:
Harvard University Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Gerald F. DiBona, M.D.
Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Molecular Physiology
and Biophysics
Dr. DiBona joined the faculty in 1969 and was promoted to Professor in 1975. In 1977, he was appointed vice chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine and Chief of the Medical Service at the Iowa City VA Medical Center. His research focused on the neural control of renal function in physiologic and pathophysiologic states, such as hypertension, heart failure, and cirrhosis with ascites and was supported by the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Veteran's Affairs.
Following a sabbatical year at the University of Oslo (Norway) and the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) as a Fogarty International Fellow, Dr. DiBona developed and applied a technique for the recording of renal nerve activity in conscious experimental animals to further define renal neural control mechanisms in health and disease. He is a past president of the American Federation for Clinical Research and the American Physiological Society. He is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. He was the recipient of a Nobel Fellowship from the Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden in support of an off-campus research activities at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden during 1998-1999. In recognition of his contributions during this annual off-campus assignment, Dr. DiBona was appointed Foreign Adjunct Professor, Karolinska Institute in 2000.
Current research interests include: Neural Control of Renal Function.
Honors, Awards, and Organizations
- President, American Federation for Clinical Research,1978-79
- President, American Physiological Society, 2000-1
- American Society for Clinical Investigation
- Association of American Physicians
- Associate Editor and Editor-in-Chief, Hypertension
- Associate Editor, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
- Lewis K. Dahl Memorial Award, Council for High Blood Pressure Research, American Heart Association, 1988
- Honorary Doctor of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden,1993
- International Research Award, International Society of Hypertension, 1994
- Middleton Award for Outstanding Achievement in Biomedical Research, Veterans Administration, 1995
- Foreign Adjunct Professor, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, 2000-
- Ernest H. Starling Distinguished Lectureship, Water & Electrolyte Homeostasis Section, American Physiological Society, 2000
- Novartis Award for Hypertension Research, Council for High Blood Pressure Research, American Heart Association, 2002
- Walter B. Cannon Memorial Lecture, American Physiological Society, 2005.
- Robert W. Berliner Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology, Renal Physiology Section, American Physiological Society, 2008
Links of Interest
Recent Publications
- Bell, T.D., DiBona, G.F., Biemiller, R., and Brands, M.W. Continuously-Measured Renal Blood Flow Does Not Increase in Diabetes if Nitric Oxide Synthesis is Blocked. Am. J. Physiol. 295:F1449-1456, 2008.
- Kopp, U.C., Jones, S.Y., and DiBona, G.F. Afferent Renal Denervation Impairs Baroreflex Control of Efferent Renal Sympathetic Nerve Activity. Am. J. Physiol. 295:R1882-R1890, 2008.