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Roland C. Blantz, M.D.
Nephrology
Internal Medicine
"I enjoy the mix of clinical medicine, focusing upon nephrology and research, examining factors relating to normal kidney physiology and the causes of acute kidney injury, mechanisms in the early diabetic kidney and factors leading to progression of chronic kidney disease using sophisticated physiologic techniques. I also am Head of a large divsion of Nephrology-Hypertension with 35-40 M.D. and Ph.D. faculty. I think it is important to remain a Physician-Scientist."
Dr. Blantz serves as an attending physician in nephrolgy several months per year, working with the consult service that focuses on kidney problems in pateints in intensive care units in medicine and surgery. These include fluid electrolyte and acid base problems and particularly acute kidney injury and treatments with dialysis and other modalites of therapy. We also care for those patients with progressive kidney disease which includes patients with diabetic nephropathy and other glomerular diseases.
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Board Certification:
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Nephrology
Internal Medicine
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Experience:
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Dr. Blantz is currently a Professor of Medicine and has been Head of the Division of
Nephrology-Hypertension at UCSD since 1988. Prior to that, he was Chief of the Nephrology Section at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Blantz is Past President of the American Society of Nephrology and Chair of American Kidney Societies (2001-02), Chair of Chronic Kidney Disease Advisory Group of ASN and prior Chair of External Advisory Committee of the NIH HEMO trial, studying morbidity and mortality in dialysis patients, a large scale clinical trial. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology, the ACP and the American Heart Association Council on High Blood Pressure Research. He recently won the Wm Middleton award for Excellence in Research from the VA Research Service.
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Languages other
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German but not fluent
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Education:
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Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Doctor of Medicine
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Training:
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Research Fellow in Internal Medicine, Renal Division and Associate in Medicine
University of Texas Health Science Center, Southwestern Medical School
Dallas, TX
Residency and Internship in Internal Medicine
University of Colorado Medical Center
Denver, CO
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Clinical Interests:
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kidney problems, fluid electrolyte and acid base problems, acute kidney injury, dialysis, progressive kidney disease, diabetic nephropathy, glomerular diseases
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Hospital Affiliations:
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UCSD Thornton Hospital, La Jolla
UCSD Medical Center, Hillcrest
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Office Addresses:
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UCSD Medical Center
200 West Arbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92103
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UCSD Thornton Hospital
9300 Campus Point Drive
La Jolla, CA 92037
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Last Updated April 16, 2008
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