D. Craig Brater, M.D.

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

He is the past president of the Central Society for Clinical Research, president of the Association of Professors of Medicine, president of the U.S. Pharmacopoeia and chairs the American Board of Clinical Pharmacology. Brater is an internationally recognized expert on the effects of drugs on the kidneys and the cardiovascular system, particularly diuretics and drugs used to treat arthritis.

Before his appointment as dean, Brater served as chairman of the IUSM Department of Medicine and was the John B. Hickman Professor of medicine. He joined the faculty in 1986 when he was named professor in the departments of medicine and pharmacology, and director of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology.

A 1971 graduate of Duke University Medical School, Brater received post-graduate training in internal medicine at Duke University Medical Center and the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco. He also trained in clinical pharmacology at UC and was on the faculty of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School before joining IU.

An Oak Ridge, Tenn., native, Brater administrates the school’s statewide medical education program located on IU campuses in Indianapolis, West Lafayette, Muncie, Bloomington, Fort Wayne, Gary, Evansville, Terre Haute and South Bend. The IU School of Medicine has 1,433 M.D., Ph.D., and M.S. students, who are trained by about 1,000 full-time faculty members, and more than 900 residents and fellows.

The IUSM has an annual budget of $540 million, including more than $135 million in research funding, more than half of which is from the National Institutes of Health.