Richard H. Sterns, MD, is a Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He served for 20 years as Chief of Medicine at Rochester General Hospital, an affiliated teaching hospital for the university, and for two years as the Internal Medicine Residency Program Director for the hospital. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, before pursuing a fellowship in nephrology at the University of Pennsylvania.