Director of Hospital and Specialty Medicine
VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine
University of Washington

Rudolph A. Rodriguez, a board-certified internist and nephrologist, is the Director of the Hospital & Specialty Medicine Service Line at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System and a Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington. As a clinician scholar, his academic career focused on nephrology fellowship education along with scholarly work on issues related to vulnerable populations.

His academic interests include health disparities, kidney disease among underserved populations, and increasing diversity in academic medicine.

Dr. Rodriguez serves as a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine Nephrology Board. He is the Chair of the Veteran Affairs Nephrology Field Advisory Board. He also served on the American Society of Nephrology Training Program Director’s Executive Committee. Go to Dr. Rodriguez's full bio.