Department of Medicine

Faculty

C. Craig Tisher, M.D. (Assoc. Vice President for Program Development Folke H. Peterson Distinguished Professor)

Dr. Tisher was awarded his undergraduate degree from the University of South Dakota in 1958 and 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. 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. He was awarded the Faculty Research Prize in the Clinical Sciences at the University of Florida in 1985 and was appointed to the Central Florida Kidney Center Eminent Scholar Chair in Nephrology in 1989. Dr. Tisher is also professor of anatomy and cell biology and a member of the department’s doctoral research faculty. He is past president of the American Society of Nephrology, past treasurer of the International Society of Nephrology, and past editor of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. He is the author of 124 peer-reviewed clinical and scientific articles, 84 chapters and has written and edited 9 books in the field of nephrology and pathology. 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. He was inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society this same year. In early 2006 the Florida Medical Business publication identified Dr. Tisher among the top 10 influential physicians in Florida. Following his tenure as Dean in May 2007, he began serving as Associate Vice President for Program Development at the University of Florida.