Matthew R. Weir, MD, is attending physician
and Director of the Division of Nephrology in
the Department of Medicine at the University
of Maryland Hospital, Baltimore. He is also
Professor of Medicine at the University of
Maryland School Of Medicine.
Dr. Weir's primary research interests include
the use of antihypertensive therapy for the
treatment of diabetic nephropathy,
hypertensive renal injury in African
Americans, and preventing allograft
nephropathy in transplant recipients. He has
written more than 450 manuscripts and book
chapters about these topics. He has edited
four books, including "Medical Management of
Kidney Transplantation" and "Hypertension."
He has presented at numerous international
scientific association meetings, hospitals,
and medical schools.
Dr. Weir currently reviews manuscripts for
more than 20 major medical journals,
including the American Journal of Kidney
Disease, the Journal of the American
Society of Nephrology, and Archives
of Internal Medicine. He is on the
editorial board of ten journals and is
Section Editor of Current Hypertension
Reports and Current Opinion in
Hypertension and Nephrology, and
Associate Editor of Clinical Nephrology and
the American Journal of Nephrology. He has
three active NIH supported grants from NIDDK.
In addition, he is a member of numerous
associations, including the American Society
of Nephrology, the National Kidney
Foundation, the American Heart Association,
and the American Society of Transplantation.
Dr. Weir received his medical degree from the
University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
He completed his internship and residency
programs in medicine at the Waterbury and
Yale-New Haven Hospitals in Connecticut, and
completed his nephrology training at the
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical
School, in Boston, Massachusetts. He then
moved to the University of Maryland where he
has been a full time faculty member since
1983.
For more information about Dr. Weir, please click here to visit his profile on the University of Maryland School of Medicine Web site.
Listen to podcasts about high blood pressure and kidney disease and the kidney and heart disease connection with Dr. Weir.
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