Office of the Executive Vice President for Research

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Manuel Martínez-Maldonado,
M.D., MACP, FAHA, FAAAS

Executive Vice President for Research

University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky

Is Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology and Toxicology and Adjunct Faculty in English at U of L. He received his MD degree from Temple Medical School. He was President and Dean, of Ponce School of Medicine from 2000 to 2006. From May 1998 to Dec 1999 he was professor of medicine, vice provost and vice president for research at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. He was the Vice Chair of the department of medicine at Emory University Medical School and director of internal medicine and ambulatory care at the Atlanta VA Medical Center from 1990-1998. He is a board-certified internist and nephrologist and a Master of the American College of Physicians. He received his nephrology training at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. He has held professorships at Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Puerto Rico, Emory and OHSU. He has also taught at Harvard and Vanderbilt. He has served on numerous NIH committees, including the Board of Scientific Counselors of the NHLBI. Author of numerous scientific publications, his research interests include disturbances of body fluid composition, the renin-angiotensin system and hypertension and their effects on renal function and kidney damage. Dr. Martínez-Maldonado is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Medicine and Health, Who’s Who in the South and Southeast. Dr. Martínez-Maldonado is a Fellow of the American Heart Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He holds membership in numerous societies, including the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.