Dr. Richard Fine
Dr. Fine is currently Dean of the School of Medicine at Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, New York. Dr. Fine is a Pediatric Nephrologist who initiated the Dialysis and Transplant Program at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles in 1967 and rose to the rank of Professor at USC School of Medicine in 1976. In 1980, he moved to UCLA to establish the Division of Pediatric Nephrology and revitalize the Pediatric ESRD program prior to coming to Stony Brook in 1991 as Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics.
Dr. Fine received his BS degree from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA in 1958 and MD degree from Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA in 1962. He completed his residency in Pediatrics at the Boston City Hospital (1962-64) and Children's Hospital of Los Angeles (1964-66). Subsequently he joined the faculty at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles as a member of the Division of Metabolic and Renal Diseases as an Instructor in Pediatrics at USC School of Medicine.
Dr. Fine's clinical and research interests have focused on optimizing clinical care of children afflicted with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) by adapting the dual modalities of Dialysis and Renal Transplantation to a Pediatric ESRD population. He is an internationally recognized expert and teacher regarding the management of children who require renal transplantation. He has lectured and published extensively on the clinical issues surrounding renal transplantation in children. His clinical research studies have involved the use of recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) to improve growth retardation in children with chronic kidney disease (CKD), those undergoing dialysis and in pediatric renal allograft recipients. He has authored more than 250 peer-reviewed publications, edited 11 textbooks and is currently Editor-in-Chief of Pediatric Transplantation. Dr. Fine is a Fellow of the American Board of Pediatrics and the sub-Board of Pediatric Nephrology.
He is currently Past-President of the American Society of Transplantation (AST), Secretary-Treasurer of the International Pediatric Transplant Association (IPTA), President-Elect of IPTA and Vice President-Treasurer of the North American Pediatric Renal Transplant Cooperative Study (NAPRTCS).
Dr. Fine has received the Henry Barnett Award for the Nephrology Section of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the Founder's Award for the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology (ASPN), Alumnus of the Year Award from Temple University School of Medicine and the Ernest Hodge Outstanding Lifetime Clinical Achievement Award from the American Society of Transplantation (AST) in recognition of his contributions to the field of Pediatric Nephrology and Pediatric Kidney Transplantation.
Dr. Fine lives with his wife, Shawney, who was a Dialysis Nurse and the first Transplant Coordinator in the U.S. with Dr. Paul Terasaki in Los Angeles in 1974 and is currently retired. In his spare time, Dr. Fine engages his 11 grandchildren in Cleveland and Los Angeles.
