Irving D Weiner, M.D.

I am a Professor of Medicine and Physiology in the University of Florida Division of Nephrology, Hypertension & Renal Transplantation and hold the C. Craig and Audrae Tisher Chair of Nephrology. I am also the Chief of the Nephrology and Hypertension Section at the affiliated North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health system.

I have an active clinical practice specializing in resistant hypertension and in the management of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. I also see patients with almost every form of kidney or electrolyte disorders.

In addition, I direct a research program that has resulted in more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, which is in addition to having written more than 30 book chapter and co-authoring one nephrology textbook. This research has been funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH), Department of Veterans Affairs, American Heart Association, International Society of Nephrology, and the National Kidney Foundation.

I earned my medical degree from Vanderbilt University in 1984. Then, I went on to complete an internal medicine internship and residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, which was followed by nephrology fellowship training at Washington University St. Louis/Barnes-Jewish Hospital in 1990.

I have extensive experience in administrative roles, having previously served as interim clinical chief of the UF Division of Nephrology, Hypertension & Renal Transplantation, director of the nephrology fellowship program at UF, chair-person of the UF Health Shands Hospital pharmacy and therapeutics committee, co-director of the MS2 nephrology course for the UF College of Medicine, member and chair of the Department of Veterans Affairs merit review subcommittee for nephrology, standing member of the NIH Kidney Molecular Biology and Genitourinary Development committee, and director of the UF Division of Nephrology, Hypertension & Renal Transplantation outpatient clinic program. I also routinely review research grant proposals for these and other national and international research programs.

• Internal Medicine

  American Board of Internal Medicine
• Nephrology

  American Board of Internal Medicine

Dr. Weiner sees people with a wide range of clinical problems in the outpatient clinic. He has a major clinical interest in the evaluation and management of people who have autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, refractory hypertension, primary aldosteronism, and genetic kidney diseases. He is also very active in the evaluation and management of people who have chronic kidney disease.

Dr. Weiner’s research interests focus on the molecular mechanisms and the regulation of acid-base hemostasis. This includes studies on ammonia metabolism, including regulation of production and novel mechanisms of transport by specific proteins. Dr. Weiner’s laboratory played a major role in a recognition the Rhesus glycoproteins enable regulated transport of ammonia gas, NH3, which resulted in a paradigm shift in the understanding of ammonia metabolism. The National Institute of Health has funded Dr. Weiner’s research program for more than 30 years.

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• Acid-base homeostasis
• Fluid, Electrolyte and Nutrition
• Renal Ammonia Metabolism
• Renal Physiology