William Weitzel Email & Phone Number

Dr. Weitzel is Professor of Nephrology at the University of Michigan and Nephrologist and Researcher at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System (VAAAHS), the Lieutenant Colonel Charles S. Kettles VA Medical Center. The VAAAHS provides state-of-the-art healthcare services to Veterans at seven locations in southeast Michigan and northwest Ohio and is a major tertiary care referral center for Michigan, Northern Indiana, and Northern Ohio. Dr Weitzel works within the VA Ann Arbor Technology Transfer Program (TTP) working with Research Investigators to help them translate scientific and technological developments into new products, processes, applications, or services. The TTP works closely with VA regional and national VA Tech Transfer Offices, the VAAAHS non-profit the Veterans Education and Research Association of Michigan (VERAM), and the VAAAHS academic affiliate the University of Michigan. As a practicing Nephrologist Dr. Weitzel cares for patients with renal diseases at the VAAAHS and his own research interests include technology development to help patients with renal, cardiac, and vascular diseases. His research projects involve end-stage renal disease, vascular access for dialysis, fluid and volume status assessment, software and algorithm development, and novel imaging modalities including ultrasound strain and elasticity imaging.

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