Michael Joseph Blumenkrantz

Background

Blumenkrantz, Michael Joseph was born on September 27, 1942 in New York City.

Education

AB, Columbia College, 1964; Doctor of Medicine, Albert Einstein College Medicine, 1968; postgraduate, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London, 1972; postgraduate, National Neurology Hospital, London, 1972.

Career

Intern, assistant resident, then resident in medicine, Hospital of University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1968-1971; instructor in medicine, Hospital of University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1970-1971; director home peritoneal dialysis program, VA Wadsworth Medical Center, 1972-1982; research and education associate, VA Wadsworth Medical Center, 1975; fellow in nephrology, VA Wadsworth Medical Center/University of California at Los Angeles, 1972-1974; assistant professor medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, 1975-1981; associate professor medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, 1981-1982; adjunct associate professor medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, 1983-1985; private practice internal medicine, nephrology and nutrition, Los Angeles, since 1982. Coordinator VA Cooperative Dialysis Study, 1975-1982. Coordinator nutrition support service VA Wadsworth Medical Center, 1976-1982.

Consultant in peritoneal dialysisVA Wadsworth Medical Center/University of California at Los Angeles Center Health Sciences, 1979-1982. Consultant in nephrology and dialysis Children's Hospital Los Angeles, 1988-1989. Consultant Pritikin Center, Santa Monica, California, 1991.

Speaker, researcher in field.

Achievements

• Michael Joseph Blumenkrantz has been listed as a noteworthy Internist, nephrologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American College of Physicians, American College Nutrition. Member American Medical Association, American Society Nephrology, American Heart Association Council of Kidney, International Society Nephrology, Los Angeles County Medical Association, American Society Artificial Internal Organs, American Federation Clin.Rsch., American Society Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, International Society forArtificial Organs, American Society Clinical Nutrition, American Institute Nutrition, European Dialysis and Transplant Association (associate).

Interests

• Avocations: reading, bicycling, travel, tennis.

Connections

M. Bonnie Davis.