Friend of Pharmacy 2003: D. Craig Brater

D. Craig Brater

B.A., Chemistry, Duke University, 1967
M.D., Duke University Medical School, 1971

Dean and Walter J. Daly Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana

D. Craig Brater is a native of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He attended college and medical school at Duke University. He completed his internship at Duke and his residency at the University of California at San Francisco, continuing there with a fellowship in clinical pharmacology where he began his interest in diuretics that has continued to the present.

Dr. Brater joined the faculty at the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1982, and four years later was selected to chair the Department of Medicine. For the 10 years he served as chairman of the department, he oversaw a $50 million per year research budget and helped guide 280 faculty members, 150 residents, and 100 subspecialty trainees.

As Dean of the IU School of Medicine, Dr. Brater oversees 25 departments, a full-time faculty of more than 1,000 members, and nearly 2,500 medical students, residents, and doctoral candidates on nine campuses throughout the state of Indiana.

Dr. Brater has published more than 100 research articles and 50 books or book chapters. These publications are for the most part in the area of diuretics or on the effects of non-steroidal inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) on renal function. He has been awarded memberships in the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. He has been or is currently President of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, the Association of Professors of Medicine, and the United States Pharmacopoeia. His alma mater recognized his contributions to academic medicine and awarded him the 2000 Duke Medical Alumni Award.

Dr. Brater has many links with Purdue. He has been an adjunct faculty member of the School of Pharmacy for 17 years and has hosted graduate students in his laboratory. His grandfather graduated from Purdue in 1916; his mother and numerous Hoosier cousins are Purdue alumni. He has been honored by the School of Pharmacy with the Robert C. Anderson Distinguished Lectureship and the Varro E. Tyler Distinguished Lectureship.

Dr. Brater and his wife Stephanie have one daughter Aimee, who is a college student in Florida. The Braters are actively involved in the I.U. School of Medicine program in Kenya, having worked there four times in the past decade. Through this program, they met their "Kenyan son" Michael, who is currently an undergraduate student at IUPUI.