Manuel Martínez Maldonado

Manuel Martínez Maldonado (born 1937) is a Puerto Rican physician, researcher, academic and poet.

He has worked in the field of nephrology with a focus on fluid regulation, electrolyte metabolism and physiology, and renal pharmacology. He has held administrative positions at several institutions, including Oregon Health and Science University, the Ponce School of Medicine, and the University of Louisville. His work has also included writing in both academic and literary contexts.

Biography Martínez Maldonado was born in Yauco, Puerto Rico.

After graduating from high school, he entered the University of Puerto Rico, where he initially studied chemistry and literature.

He graduated magna cum laude and was accepted to Temple University School of Medicine (TUSM) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he earned his medical degree. After a residency in internal medicine at the San Juan Veterans Administration Medical Center and University Hospital, he completed his postdoctoral studies on renal and electrolyte metabolism at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Martinez Maldonado became interested in renal physiology and nephrology and was accepted as a Fellow by the Dallas Southwestern Nephrology Division, where he developed into an investigator. He then became an independent investigator at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, rising from assistant to full professor of medicine with tenure (1968–1973). Nephrology is a branch of internal medicine and pediatrics focused on studying the function and diseases of the kidney.

Martinez Maldonado is credited with developing a technique to measure the osmolality of nanoliter samples of proximal tubular fluids. From 2000 to 2009, he served as Executive Vice President for Research at the University of Louisville. Martínez-Maldonado has also served on various committees of the National Institutes of Health Also as a member of Member, Committee on Organ Procurement and Transplantation Policy of the Institute of Medicine, National Academies.

He is also a member of the Honor Medical Society, Alpha Omega Alpha.

Selected publications Books

Novels

Poetry

La voz sostenida (1984) Palm Beach Blues (1986) Por amor al arte (1989)

Essays

Awards Martínez Maldonado was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 1973. He is a member of the Association of American Physicians, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (now the National Academy of Medicine), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was also a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine Nephrology panel,

He is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World and presided over the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation and the Latin American Society of Nephrology and Hypertension.