Rudy Rodriguez, MD

Rudy Rodriguez, MD, is the Director of Hospital and Specialty Medicine at the VA Puget Sound Health Care Systems and Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington (UW). He is a nephrologist and serves as the UW Nephrology Fellowship Program Director. He is the chair of the VA-wide Renal Field Advisory Committee, which is a leading an effort to transform the renal programs within the VA including the education of providers and patients. His academic interests include health disparities, kidney disease among underserved populations, and increasing diversity in academic medicine. He is the UW School of Medicine Course Director for the Hispanic Health and Health Care Disparities Course. He previously was a faculty member at the University of California San Francisco and worked as a nephrologist at San Francisco General Hospital.