In Memoriam

KARL R. BRINKER, MD Division of Nephrology, Baylor University Medical Center Dr. Karl Brinker, age 58, died on January 22, 2005. He was born in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in 1968 from the University of Michigan, he attended medical school at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. From 1975 to 1977, he was in the US Public Health Service, serving with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Fort Collins, Colorado. Afterwards, he completed a fellowship in nephrology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Dr. Brinker was on the medical staff at BUMC and Methodist Dallas Medical Center and was a clinical associate professor at UT Southwestern. In 2004, he took an educational sabbatical with the Division of Nephrology and Transplantation Immunology with Phillip Halloran, MD, PhD, at the University of Alberta in Canada. His hobbies included dry fly fishing, watching hockey, and coaching youth baseball.