EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Nephrology Fellowship (1992-94)
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Medicine Residency (1989-92)
California Pacific Medical Center
San Francisco, CA

Medical School (1985-89)
Drew/University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

SITE OF PRACTICE:
VA Puget Sound Health Care System

CONTACT INFORMATION
Primary and Specialty Medicine Service Line
VA/Puget Sound Health Care System
Director, Nephrology and Renal Dialysis Unit
Building 100 Room 5B113
1660 S. Columbian Way
Seattle, WA 98108 

Office:   (206) 277-3282
(206) 764-2022 (FAX)
Email:   rudy.rodriguez@va.gov

Administrative Contacts:
http://depts.washington.edu/
nephron/admin.htm

  Rudolph A. Rodriguez, M.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine
Nephrology Fellowship Program Director
University of
Washington
Director, Nephrology and Renal Dialysis Unit
VA/Puget Sound Medical Center

Specialty:   Dialysis, Clinical Nephrology


 

CLINICAL INTERESTS

  • Dialysis
  • Clinical Nephrology


RESEARCH INTERESTS AND CURRENT RESEARCH

  • Association of Viral Infections and Kidney Disease
  • Interplay of Geography, Race, Poverty, and Kidney Diseases


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Rodriguez RA
, Mendelson M, O’Hare AM, Hsu L, Schoenfeld P. Determinants of Survival among HIV-infected Chronic Dialysis Patients J Am Soc Nephrol. 2003 May;14(5):1307-13.

Gupta SK, Eustace JA, Winston JA, Boydstun II, Ahuja TS, Rodriguez RA, Tashima KT, Roland M, Franceschini N, Palella FJ, Lennox JL, Klotman PE, Nachman SA, Hall SD, Szczech LA. Guidelines for the management of chronic kidney disease in HIV-infected patients: recommendations of the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.  Clin Infect Dis. 2005 Jun 1;40(11):1559-85. Epub 2005 Apr 22.

Rudolph A. Rodriguez MD, Kala Mehta D.Sc., Sandra Moody-Ayers BSN, MD, Saunak Sen PhD, Ann M. O’Hare MA MD. Geography Matters:  Residential segregation by race and outcomes among metropolitan dialysis patients and facilities Ann Intern Med. 2007;146:493-501.

Rudolph A. Rodriguez, MD, Jean Olson, MD, Ann O’Hare Kidney International: False Covers and Loss of Integrity. Letter to the editor. Kidney Int. 2007 May;71(9):952-3.

Andy I. Choi, MD, Rudolph A. Rodriguez, MD, Peter Bacchetti, PhD, Daniel Bertenthal, MPH, Paul A. Volberding, MD, Ann M. O’Hare, MD MA. Racial Differences in End Stage Renal Disease Rates Among U.S. Veterans with HIV versus Diabetes. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2007 Nov;18(11):2968-2974. 2007 Oct 17.


AWARDS

  • San Francisco General Hospital, Faculty of the Year (SFGH Association of Business Officers Group), 2004
  • San Francisco General Hospital, Consultant of the Year, 2005
  • UCSF Department of Medicine Master Clinician Award, 2006

 

NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Member, American Society of Nephrology,
Member, International Society of Nephrology
Member, National Kidney Foundation
Member, American College of Physicians
Member, National Association of Public Hospitals

 



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