FranklinDanielDiazMDFACP

Summary

• Franklin Diaz, MD is a nephrology specialist based in Lawrenceville, GA with subspecialties in chronic renal failure & dialysis, glomerular disease, and hypertension. He is an alumnus of the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine class of 1980 and further trained in internal medicine at the VA Caribbean Healthcare System and nephrology at the University of Texas Medical Branch Hospitals. Dr. Diaz has vast experience in hypertension, transplant nephrology, end-stage renal disease, glomerular disease, and dialysis, evidenced by his employment history which includes roles such as the Staff Physician at Northside Hospital-Gwinnett and National Medical Director at HELPING HANDS Medical Missions. He has contributed to medical literature, with one of his notable works published in the Am J Physiol in 1986. Notably, he is a recipient of the 2009 Christus Medicus from the Catholic Medical Association- Atlanta Guild and became a Fellow of the American College of Physicians in 1992.