Bruce C. Kone

Infobox Person
name = Bruce C. Kone, M.D.
birth_date = January 29, 1958
education = Bachelors Princeton University, M.D. University of Florida College of Medicine
known_for = Physician-scientist, leader in academic medicine

Bruce C. Kone, M.D. (born January 29, 1958) is an American professor, nephrologist, administrator, and molecular biologist. He is currently professor of medicine, biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Florida College of Medicine.

History

A naturalized citizen of the United States, he was born in Frankfurt, Germany. He attended Pine Crest Preparatory School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he was a scholar-athlete awardee, All-American swimmer, and selected to the Athletic Hall of Fame and the Arete Society. In 1979, he received his A.B. in English (cum laude) and captained the varsity swimming team at Princeton University. He then completed his M.D. (Honors in Research) at the University of Florida College of Medicine in 1983, a residency in internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and a nephrology fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

Kone held faculty positions at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1989-91) and the University of Florida College of Medicine (1991-95) before joining the University of Texas Medical School at Houston in 1995. He was the inaugural chief of the division of clinical pharmacology (1998-99), director of the division of renal diseases and hypertension (2000-06), vice chairman (2000-03) and then chairman (2004-07) of the department of internal medicine (2004-07), and holder of the James T. and Nancy B. Willerson Chair (2001-07) at that institution. He also served as the chief of nephrology (2000-06) and of internal medicine (2004-07) at Memorial Hermann Hospital and chief of the section of nephrology at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (2000-06). From 2007-2008, he was the Folke H. Peterson/Dean’s Distinguished Professor and eighth Dean of the University of Florida College of Medicine [Citation
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Honors

Kone is a Fellow of the AAAS [Citation| | last =
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He has served as an associate editor of "Clinical and Translational Science", and a member of the editorial boards of the "American Journal of Physiology: Renal Physiology", the "American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology and Metabolism", the "Journal of the American Society of Nephrology", "Kidney International", and the "American Journal of Medicine". Kone has served on the Florida Tobacco Education and Use Prevention Advisory Council of the Florida Department of Health [Citation| | last =
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