# Gerald B. Appel

> Gerald B. Appel is an American medical doctor and kidney researcher known both for his celebrity patients and for his scholarly work on the renal manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus and other diseases of the glomeruli, the filters of the kidney. He has also published more than three hundred academic papers and book chapters on diseases of the glomeruli.

*American physician/kidney researcher*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/gerald-b-appel

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Doctor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Doctors
- **Born:** 1947
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Gerald B. Appel is an American medical doctor and kidney researcher known both for his celebrity patients and for his scholarly work on the renal manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus and other diseases of the glomeruli, the filters of the kidney. He has also published more than three hundred academic papers and book chapters on diseases of the glomeruli.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 39.5 / 100
- **Momentum:** 3.2 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 1.5 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 14.5 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 10.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 39.0 / 100

## Sources
- [Gerald B. Appel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_B._Appel)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5548902)

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