Dr Sarnak has authored more than 175 publications and is a peer reviewer for more than a dozen journals. He was Co-Editor for American Journal of Kidney Disease between 2006 2007 and presently serves on the Editorial Board of the Annals of Internal Medicine. Among the recent honors he has received include Best Teacher Award for the Medical Residents in 2008, Excellence in Teaching in the Medical Clerkship in 2009, and an acknowledgment in Boston Magazine Best Doctors in both 2010 and 2011. Dr Sarnak reported no relevant financial relationships Guntram Schernthaner, MD, became Professor of Medicine at the University of Vienna, Austria in 1987. Since 1988 he has been Head of the Department of Medicine I at the Rudolfstiftung Hospital in Vienna and between 1982 and 1988 he served as Head of the Division of Metabolism & Endocrinology at the University of Vienna. Professor Schernthaner s main research interests are diabetes mellitus (including diabetic nephropathy, diabetic retinopathy, insulin resistance, CVD, hemostasis, immunotherapy of type 1 diabetes, gestational diabetes), hypertension and morbid obesity. Professor Schernthaner has held various prestigious positions, including serving as Council Member and Vice- President of the European Society for Clinical Investigation; President of the Austrian Diabetes Association; President of the first Joint Congress of the German and Austrian Diabetes Associations; Council Member of the European Diabetes Association; and President of the 32nd European Diabetes Congress (EASD, Vienna 1996). Professor Schernthaner has authored more than 350 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has presented invited lectures at many international congresses, symposia and universities in more than 50 countries. According to the Citation Index of Web of Science his papers were cited 8300 times, with a Hirsch index of 43. He was also the principal investigator of more than 40 studies (e.g.