The division has been under the leadership of Stephen L. Gluck, M.D., as the chief of the division, since 1998. The previous directors of the division includes C. Craig Tisher, M.D., currently the Senior Associate Dean of the College of Medicine of the University of Florida and editor of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, and Robert Cade, M.D., inventor of Gatorade.
Patient care is provided in both the inpatient and the outpatient settings.
The division provides care for inpatients at Shands Hospital and the Gainesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Renal transplantation is performed at Shands Hospital, where approximately 150 transplants are performed each year, and over 2500 patients have received a kidney transplant since inception of the program in 1969. Outpatients with a wide variety of diseases, such as primary and secondary glomerular diseases, hypertension, renal artery stenosis, diabetic nephropathy, and chronic renal insufficiency, are cared for by the division. Approximately 150 patients receive chronic hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis under the direction of the faculty. A wide variety of research seeks to to understand how the kidney functions in health and disease and how to promote health in diseased kidneys.