Contact Information
Telephone number: (617) 636-5070
Fax number:(617) 636-7890
Email: DWeiner@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
Titles
Associate Medical Director
Dialysis Clinic, Inc Boston
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
Deputy Editor
American Journal of Kidney Diseases
Education
Undergraduate
Bachelor of Arts (BA) cum laude in Classics and Ancient History, 1994
Tufts University, Medford MA
Medical School
Doctorate in Medicine (MD), 1998
Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston MA
Graduate School
Master of Science (MS), 2004
Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences
Tufts University, Boston MA
Training
University of Maryland, Baltimore MD
Resident in Internal Medicine, 2001
Chief Resident in Internal Medicine, 2002
Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston MA
Clinical Research Fellow in Nephrology, 2004
Clinical Fellow in Nephrology, 2005
Board Certifcation
ABIM, Diplomate in Internal Medicine, 2001
ABIM, Diplomate in Nephrology, 2005
Interests
Clinical
Dr. Weiner’s clinical specialties are general nephrology and dialysis, internal medicine, and cardiovascular disease in patients with CKD. Dr. Weiner is the Associate Medical Director of DCI Boston. In this role, he is working to enhance care for dialysis patients and dialysis education at Tufts Medical Center.
Research
Dr. Weiner is the recipient of a K23 Career Development Award from the NIDDK to investigatecerebrovascular disease and cognitive impairment in individuals with CKD. His research work includes evaluating the effect of traditional and non-traditional cardiovascular disease risk factors on stroke and other cardiovascular disease outcomes, examining the applicability of current cardiovascular disease prediction equations to the CKD population, developing new prediction equations for use in CKD, and evaluating the burden of and risk factors for cognitive impairment and cerebrovascular disease in elderly individuals with CKD as well as in hemodialysis patients.
Dr. Weiner also has conducted research in the dialysis population, examining anemia management as well as cognitive impairment and cerebrovascular disease.
Other Professional Activities
Effective October 2010, Dr. Weiner has been appointed to a 3-year term as a member of the American Society of Nephrology’s Dialysis Advisory Group. The Dialysis Advisory Group is responsible for representing its constituents in all ASN activities including identifying, developing and communicating policy issues; meeting the needs of the constituent group in all forms of ASN education; promoting collaborations for its constituent group (including research); assisting the ASN in generating external support for its activities; and interacting with other organizations that relate directly to the Advisory Group and its members.
As of October 2006, Dr. Weiner assumed the role of Deputy Editor of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases. In this position, working with a dedicated staff, he is responsible for many of the day-to-day operations of the Journal, and has endeavored to develop new content while maintaining current excellence.
Dr. Weiner is a member of the curriculum committee at Tufts University School of Medicine and is a member of the Residency Selection Committee at Tufts Medical Center. He instructs students at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in issues relating to dialysis and kidney disease and lectures on Renal pathophysiology to students at the Friedman School of Nutrition and Tufts University School of Medicine.
Selected Publications
Essam F Elsayed, Hocine Tighiouart, Daniel E Weiner, John L Griffith, Deeb N Salem, Andrew S Levey, Mark J Sarnak. Waist-to-Hip Ratio and Body Mass Index as Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Events in CKD. Am J Kidney Dis, 2008; PMID: 18514990.
Essam F Elsayed, Mark J Sarnak, Hocine Tighiouart, John L Griffith, Tobias Kurth, Deeb N Salem, Andrew S Levey, Daniel E Weiner. Waist to Hip Ratio, Body Mass Index and Subsequent Kidney Disease and Death. Am J Kidney Dis, 2008; PMID: 18511168.
Daniel E Weiner, Hocine Tighiouart, Essam F Elsayed, John L Griffith, Deeb N Salem, Andrew S. Levey. Uric acid and incident kidney disease. J Am Soc Nephrol19(6):1204-1211, 2008.
Daniel E Weiner, Hocine Tighiouart, Essam F Elsayed, John L Griffith, Deeb N Salem, Andrew S Levey, Mark J Sarnak. Inflammation and Cardiovascular Events in Individuals with and without Chronic Kidney Disease. Kidney Int 73(12):1406-1412, 2008.
Daniel E Weiner, Hocine Tighiouart, Essam F Elsayed, John L Griffith, Deeb N Salem, Andrew S Levey, Mark J Sarnak. The relationship between nontraditional risk factors and outcomes in individuals with stage 3 to 4 CKD. Am J Kidney Dis 51(2):212-223, 2008.
Daniel E Weiner, Dana C Miskulin, Kimberly Seefield, Vladimir Ladik, Philip G Zager, Ajay K Singh, H Keith Johnson, Klemens B Meyer. Reducing versus Discontinuing Erythropoietin at High Hemoglobin Levels. J Am Soc Nephrol 18(12): 3184-3191, 2007.
Daniel E Weiner and Andrew S Levey. In the Literature: Dialysis Facility Ownership and Epoetin Dosing in Hemodialysis Patients: An Overview. Am J Kidney Dis 50(3):349-353, 2007.
Essam F. Elsayed, Hocine Tighiouart, John L Griffith, Tobias Kurth, Andrew S. Levey, Deeb N Salem, Mark J Sarnak, Daniel E Weiner. Cardiovascular Disease and Subsequent Kidney Disease. Archives Int Med 167(11): 1130-1136, 2007.