Bruce S. Spinowitz MD, FACP

Bruce S. Spinowitz, MD, FACP is Vice Chairman of the Department of Medicine at New York Hospital Queens and Associate Director of Nephrology and Dialysis Services at the hospital’s Trude Weishaupt Memorial Satellite Dialysis Center. He is also a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University.

He received his medical degree at the New York University School of Medicine and his internal medicine and nephrology training at Bellevue/NYU Hospital in New York City. Following his training, he was Associate Director of Dialysis at Bellevue Hospital before joining Nephrology Associates PC in 1979.

He has worked with numerous pharmaceutical companies during the last 25 years, as an investigator and advisor to the industry, and has published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles in the nephrology literature. His research activities have been in anemia, iron replacement, hyperphosphatemia, diabetic nephropathy, and hyperkalemia. He has been named to New York Magazine’s listing of super doctors consistently over the past 10 years and received the 2014 Nephrologist of the Year award from the American Kidney Fund.