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We are sad to mark the death of Renal Pharmacology Section Head Russell Chesney.

Dr Chesney was a pediatric nephrologist at Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee, as well as president of the American Pediatric Society and chairman of the American Board of Pediatrics. He joined F1000 as a Section Head in March 2009. He died of an apparent heart attack in April this year, aged 73.

Obituaries for Dr Chesney have been published here. We send our sincere condolences to his family, friends and colleagues.