Biosketch
Craig Tisher, M.D.
Dr Tisher was awarded his M. D. degree in 1961 from Washington University of
St. Louis. After completion of his internal medicine training at Barnes
Hospital in St. Louis and at the University of Washington in Seattle, he
pursued his fellowship training in nephrology at the University of Washington
under the direction of Dr. Belding H. Scribner and Dr. Benjamin J. Trump. Dr.
Tisher served for three years in the military at the Walter Reed Hospital and
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington, D. C. before he joined
the faculty at Duke University School of Medicine in 1969. In 1980, he
accepted an appointment as professor of medicine and pathology and chief of the
Division of Nephrology, Hypertension and Transplantation at the University of
Florida. Dr. Tisher is recognized both nationally and internationally for his
writings and research in renal anatomy, pathology and physiology. In January
1998 Dr Tisher accepted an appointment as senior associate dean in the College
of Medicine at the University of Florida. In 1999 he was appointed to the
Folke H. Peterson/Dean’s Distinguished Professorship and in 2001 was awarded
the prestigious John P. Peters Award from the American Society of Nephrology.
In April 2002 Dr Tisher was named Interim Dean of the College of Medicine and
in September 2002 he was named dean of the College of Medicine at the
University of Florida.
Contact: Russell Fielding / rtfield@ufl.edu
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Created: November 27, 2001
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