Manuel Martínez Maldonado (born 1937) is a Puerto Rican internist, nephrologist specialist, administrator, educator, poet, and author.
[citation needed] He graduated magna cum laude and was accepted at Temple University School of Medicine (TUSM), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he earned his medical degree.
[3][5] He has also served as editor or co-editor of several books, including: Poetry Novel "Essay" Martínez Maldonado was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 1973.
[3] In 1990, he was appointed Chief of the Medical Services at the Atlanta VA Center, as well as Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine at Emory University.
In 2000, Martínez Maldonado was named president and dean of the Ponce School of Medicine, where he obtained full accreditation and improved its finances.
In 2006, he was selected as the executive vice president for research at the University of Louisville,[6] overseeing the building and completion of the Center for Predictive Medicine, a level-3 biodefense laboratory in the United States.