Alan N. Charney, MD

Alan N. Charney, MD

Alan N. Charney, M.D. graduated from Columbia University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. After completing nephrology training at Yale and the Thorndike Laboratory at Harvard in 1973, he served at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

From 1976 to 2005, Dr. Charney was Chief of the Nephrology Section at the VA Medical Center at NYU, and became Professor of Medicine at NYU in 1986. 

From 2003 to 2005, he developed and directed the NYU Department of Medicine Resident Research Program. The resident research manual, web site, curriculum, and databases serve as a model for residency programs nationwide. 

Dr. Charney's research focused on intestinal electrolyte transport and the modulatory roles of Na-K-ATPase, adenylate and guanylate cyclase and carbonic anhydrase.

He trained more than 25 post-doctoral fellows, and a generation of medical students and residents took electives in his lab. Dr. Charney is a member of the ASCI, and the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory.  Dr. Charney currently is a Medical Director at Novartis Pharmaceuticals, but retains his NYU appointment and returns regularly to teach and make rounds.