Bruder Stapleton, MD

At the University of Tennesse, he served as Chief of the Division of Pediatric Nephrology at the University of Tennessee, where he founded the pediatric General Clinical Research Center. He served as A. Conger Goodyear Chair of the Department of Pediatrics and pediatrician-in-chief and medical director for Childrens Hospital of Buffalo in New York. He has served as secretary-treasurer and president of the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology, assistant secretary-general and treasurer of the International Pediatric Nephrology Association, president of the Southern Society for Pediatric Research, chairman of the Sub- Board of Pediatric Nephrology of the American Board of Pediatrics and member of its Board of Directors, and member of the Council of Pediatric Research for the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is the President of the American Pediatric Society and is founding editor-in-chief of Journal Watch Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. He is also the Co-Editor-in-Chief of UptoDate Pediatrics and editor of the Oxford Handbook of Pediatrics. He is head of the Data Safety Monitoring Board for the NIH National Study of Kidney Disease in Children (CKiDS) and chairs the Sub-specialties committee of the American Board of Pediatrics.