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Alfred Michael

American physician (1928–2022)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ48977072
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Alfred Michael (August 10, 1928 – September 25, 2022) was an American physician and medical educator and scientist. He was Emeritus Regents' Professor and Dean of the university of Minnesota Medical School and previously served as chair of the department of pediatrics. He was Regents' Professor and dean of the University of Minnesota Medical School. He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was president of the American Society of Nephrology from which he received the Peters Award. He received numerous other awards and was a member of numerous academic and scientific societies.

A cited expert in his field, his interests were in pediatrics.

Education

He earned his undergraduate and medical degrees at Temple University before serving at Philadelphia's Saint Christopher's Hospital for Children and Cincinnati Children's Hospital before teaching.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1928, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Alfred, Michael and American can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from Alfred Michael” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.