Alfred Michael, M.D.

Regents Professor
Mayo Mail Code 293
420 Delaware Street, SE
Minneapolis, MN  55455
Phone: (612) 626-4949
Fax: (612) 626-2791
micha003@umn.edu

Alfred F. Michael received his medical education at Temple University School of Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital and College of Medicine, and the University of Minnesota Medical School. He is an international leader in research and education concerned with diseases of the kidney; has published over 370 scientific papers; and was involved in the training of over 100 nephrology fellows, many of whom continue in academic medicine.

He was Dean of the University of Minnesota Medical School from 1996 to 2002. Prior to assuming the Deanship, he was the Head of the Department of Pediatrics and Chief of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Hospital and Fairview-University Medical Center (1986-1997), and Director/Co-Director of the Division of Pediatric Nephrology (1966-1986). He is a Regents' Professor, which is the highest distinction of the University, awarded to only twenty members of the faculty. He is a past president of the American Society of Nephrology from which he received its John Peters Award, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of many academic societies, a National Institutes of Health Merit Awardee, and recipient of the Alumni Achievement Award for Clinical Science from Temple University School of Medicine.

He is also the recipient of the Shotwell Award, the Harold S. Diehl Award, the Gold Headed Cane and Regents Award of the University of Minnesota, and the Bolles-Rogers Award. He is the physician founder of the Minnesota Viking Children's Fund, the University Pediatric (Children's) Foundation, and was a founding member of the Sub-Board of Pediatric Nephrology.