Myles Wolf, MD, MS, MSc, BRCU Faculty
Myles Wolf is the Sanford I. Weill Chair of Medicine in the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and Physician-in-Chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Wolf received his MD from the State University of New York–Downstate, completed Internal Medicine and Nephrology training at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and obtained a Master of Medical Sciences degree in Clinical and Physiological Investigation from Harvard Medical School. After serving on the Harvard faculty for 6 years, Dr. Wolf moved to the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, where he eventually served as Chief of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Director of the Clinical Research Center, and Assistant Dean for Translational and Clinical Research. Subsequently, he spent 3 years at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine as founding Director of the Center for Translational Metabolism and Health and as Director of the Department of Medicine’s Physician-Scientist Training Program. From 2016 to 2024, Dr. Wolf served as the Charles Johnson, MD, Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Nephrology at the Duke University School of Medicine.
Dr. Wolf’s team combines physiological and interventional patient-oriented studies, population-based epidemiological studies, clinical trials, and laboratory-based studies in a collaborative translational approach. Trainees are prominently featured in all areas. A focus of his team’s work is to investigate the role of fibroblast growth factor 23 in normal and disordered mineral homeostasis, cardiovascular disease, and acute and chronic kidney diseases. Among Dr. Wolf’s more than 300 publications are original research reports in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Nature Medicine, the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Circulation, Cell Metabolism, and the leading nephrology journals. In recognition of his scientific contributions, Dr. Wolf received the Donald W. Seldin Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Nephrology in 2014, and he was elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and the American Clinical and Climatological Society.