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Markus Bitzer

Clinical Professor
Nephrology
Medicine

Education
MS, Chemistry, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen, Germany
MD, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen, Germany

Post-Doctoral Training
01/1995-05/1995     Externship, Visiting Medical Student – Medicine Sub-internship, Critical Care, Hematology- Oncology, Duke University
12/1995-05/1997    Internship, Internal Medicine, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen, Germany
06/1997-08/1998    Residency, Internal Medicine, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen, Germany
10/1998-06/2002    Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Nephrology & Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
07/2002-06/2003    Internship, Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
07/2003-06/2004    Residency – Physician-Scientist track, Internal Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
07/2004-06/2006    Fellowship, Nephrology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

Academic Appointments
07/2006-08/2009           Assistant Professor of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Bronx, NY
12/2007-08/2009           Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Bronx, NY
09/2009-10/2013           Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Michigan, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology
09/2015-08/2019           Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Michigan, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology
09/2019-present            Professor of Medicine, University of Michigan, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology

Administrative Appointment
11/2011-present            Director of Geriatric Nephrology Clinic, University of Michigan

Clinical Appointment
11/2014-present            Staff Physician, Internal Medicine – Nephrology, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System


Projects:

Cardiometabolic disease and acute kidney injury, Machine learning approach for quantitative morphometric assessment of kidney structure.

University Affiliation(s)

University of Michigan Medical School

Community and Professional Affiliation(s)

Human Cell atlas | Kidney Precision Medicine Project

Research Area(s)

Diabetes and management | Older adult chronic disease management | Systems biology | cardiovascular diseases