Faculty Biographies and Disclosures

Robert D. Toto, MD

Dr. Robert Toto is the Mary M. Conroy Professor of Kidney Disease and Director of Clinical Nephrology and Patient-Oriented Research in Nephrology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He received his medical degree from the University of Illinois in Chicago in 1997 and did his internal medicine training at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He completed his nephrology training at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 1983 and joined the full-time faculty immediately thereafter.

Dr. Toto is nationally and internationally known for his clinical research and teaching. He has authored more than 80 articles and book chapters related to diagnosis and management of hypertension and kidney disease. He has also served on the editorial boards of many prominent medical journals. Dr. Toto's research interests include detection, prevention and treatment of progressive kidney diseases including diabetes and hypertension. He has participated in several major clinical trials of kidney disease including the African American Study of Kidney Disease (AASK trial and the HEMO study. He is the leader of an NIH-funded training program for junior clinical scientists at UT.