John K Maesaka

John Maesaka, professor of medicine at NYU Long Island School of Medicine and Chief Emeritus, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at NYU Langone Hospital Long Island, was born in Hawaii, received a BA degree from Harvard University, MD degree from the Boston University School of Medicine and trained at Barnes Jewish Hospital at Washington University in St. Louis and the Mount Sinai Hospital and Medical School in New York. He spent 5 years exclusively in the physiology laboratory, which prepared him well for his future research endeavors. He has spent many years studying hyponatremic conditions, especially renal salt wasting and identifying the protein that causes it.