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Thomas E. Andreoli
January 9, 1935 - April 14, 2009
Passed away on April 14, 2009 due to complications from a severe head
injury. A devoted father, grandfather, husband, friend and physician, Dr.
Andreoli was born on January 9, 1935 in New York City. He is known
nationally and internationally for his critical contributions to medicine,
nephrology and science - contributions which have left the world a better
place.
Dr. Andreoli received his B.S., summa cum laude, from St. Vincent
College in 1956 and his M.D., magna cum laude, from Georgetown
University in 1960. He served on the medical faculty of Duke University, the
NIH, the University of Alabama in Birmingham School of Medicine (UAB), where
he was the Founding Director of Nephrology, and was appointed the Chairman
of Internal Medicine a the University of Texas Health Science Center in
Houston in 1979. In 1988, he was appointed Professor and Chair of Internal
Medicine at the University of Arkansas College of Medicine, stepping down
from that position in 2004. At the time of his death, Dr. Andreoli was a
Distinguished Professor and Chair Emeritus of Internal Medicine at the
University of Arkansas College of Medicine. Dr. Andreoli consistently
received numerous teaching awards over the years at all of the medical
centers with which he was affiliated.
Dr. Andreoli relished taking on and solving medical and scientific
challenges. His love of literature and eloquence was evident in his numerous
publications, most notably Andreoli and Carpenter’s Cecil Essentials
of Medicine, the 8th Edition of which will be published
in early 2010 with a final tribute to him.
Among other achievements in his lifetime, Dr. Andreoli was
Secretary-Treasurer of the American Society for Clinical Investigation,
1977-80; President of the American Society of Nephrology, 1993-94; and
President of the International Society of Nephrology, 1999-2001. He
received the 1995 Homer W. Smith Award for Renal Physiology from the
American Society of Nephrology; the 1997 David M. Hume Memorial Award of the
National Kidney Foundation; the 1997 Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award of
the University of Arkansas; the 1998 Robert H. Williams Distinguished Chair
of Medicine Award from the Association of Professors of Medicine; the Louis
Pasteur Medal from the Université Louis Pasteur in 1995; a Mastership from
the American College of Physicians in 1996; the 2000 Distinguished Teacher
Award from the American College of Physicians; the 2000 Robert W. Berliner
Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology from the American Physiological
Society; the 2001 Distinguished Faculty Award from the Caduceus Club at UAMS;
was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) in 2001;
the 2002-2003 George L. Ackerman Outstanding Faculty Award at UAMS; the
Silver Plate Award from the Hungarian Kidney Foundation in 2006; and was
elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London) in 2007. The
Thomas E. Andreoli Professorship in Nephrology was endowed at the University
of Alabama School of Medicine in 2001, and the Thomas E. Andreoli Visiting
Professor in Internal Medicine was endowed at the University of Arkansas
College of Medicine in 2003. The Thomas E. Andreoli, M. D., MACP, Clinical
Scholar Chair was endowed at UAMS in 2004. He is an Honorary Professor at
Beijing Medical University and an Honorary Member of the Portuguese Society
of Nephrology. He holds an Sc.D., honoris causa, from St. Vincent College,
Docteur, honoris causa, Université Paris VII, an Sc.D. honoris causa from
the Aristotelian University in Thessaloniki, and an M. D. honoris causa from
Semmelweis University in Budapest.
Dr. Andreoli was a voracious reader and a passionate art collector. He
spoke Italian and did not miss a season at the Metropolitan Opera in New
York City. He loved animals and continued to bring them into his life right
up until his death, at which time he had 6 dogs. He often joked that he felt
like the comedic elderly man character in the movie “Moonstruck” who walked
his numerous dogs at night.
Dr. Andreoli married Dr. Kathleen Gainor Andreoli in 1960, with whom he
had 3 children who survive him: his daughters Paula Andreoli North and Karen
Andreoli Roberts, both devoted mothers, and his son, Thomas Anthony
Andreoli, a partner at the Chicago law firm of Sonnenschein, Nath &
Rosenthal. In 1988, he married Elizabeth Berglund Andreoli, his loving
wife, who survives him. Dr. Andreoli is also survived by his beloved 10
grandchildren, Stephen, Sarafina, Claire, Mia, Mark, Charlotte, Gigi, Danny,
Penelope and Anthony. The family wishes to gratefully acknowledge a de facto
member of the Andreoli family – Ms. Clementine Whitman, his devoted “right
arm” for more than 40 years.
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