Tulane
University invested nephrologist Lee Hamm in the A. Rudolph and Ruth Ryder
Huberwald Chair in Medicine. Hamm is a professor of medicine and
physiology and chief of the nephrology and hypertension section in the
Department of Medicine of the Tulane University School of Medicine.
Through the legacy of the late Dorothy Ryder of New Orleans, Hamm was
invested as the inaugural holder of the chair. Dorothy Ryder established
the Huberwald Chair endowment fund to memorialize her sister Ruth Ryder
Huberwald and brother-in-law A. Rudolph Huberwald. Her gift was inspired
and nurtured through her friend Robert Burch, clinical professor emeritus
of medicine at Tulane, and his wife Lillie Margaret Burch, who represented
Dorothy Ryder at the investiture ceremony.
Hamm, an expert on kidney diseases and hypertension, joined the Tulane
faculty in 1992. Four years ago, he was appointed director of the Tulane
Hypertension and Renal Center of Excellence.
Hamm chairs the American Heart Association Council on the Kidney and
Cardiovascular Disease. He currently is an investigator on several
research grants sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and
received a merit award from the NIH. He also received an American Heart
Association Established Investigator Award.
A native of Alabama, Hamm graduated from Auburn University and received
his medical degree from the University of Alabama, followed by an
internship, residency and postdoctoral fellowship in nephrology at
Parkland Memorial Hospital and the University of Texas Health Science
Center at Dallas.
