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BWH mourns the loss of Charles (Bernie) Carpenter, MD, of Nephrology, who passed away Sept. 30.
Dr. Carpenter was a 1958 graduate of Harvard Medical School. Following his internship and residency in New York and a brief stint in the U.S. Navy, Dr. Carpenter returned to Boston in 1962 to be trained in nephrology by John P. Merrill, MD, at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
Dr. Carpenter’s research focused on studying the molecular targets for the immune response to transplanted tissues. He trained 60 postdoctoral fellows in his lab, many of whom are now leaders in academic nephrology.
During the course of his career at the Brigham, Dr. Carpenter served at various times as the director of the Tissue Typing Laboratory, the Inter-hospital Organ Bank, the Immunogenetics Laboratory and as the acting director of the Renal Division from 2001 to 2003.
“We will all miss this giant of a man who was an extraordinary mentor and a pioneer and leader of Transplantation Nephrology for so many years,” said Joseph V. Bonventre, MD, chief of the Renal Division.
Dr. Carpenter was a founding member of the Transplantation Society, the American Society of Nephrology, the American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, and the American Society of Transplantation, and served as president of the latter two organizations. He was the 2004 recipient of the John P. Peters Award of the American Society of Nephrology and the 2005 recipient of the David Hume Award of the National Kidney Foundation.