Richard H. Sterns

Richard H. Sterns is a nephrologist, a Professor Emeritus at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, a former Chief of Medicine at Rochester General Hospital, and an Editor-in-Chief for Fluid and Electrolytes for UpToDate. Dr Sterns is a graduate of Stanford University who completed his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania; internal medicine training at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center and Albert Einstein School of Medicine; and his nephrology fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Sterns introduced the term “Osmotic Demyelination Syndrome” (a serious neurological complication caused by overly rapid correction of hyponatremia) in 1986 and has published extensively on the subject of hyponatremia.