Floyd Rector

Floyd Rector is a nephrologist and emeritus professor of medicine.

Floyd Rector
Alma mater
Scientific career
Fields	Nephrology
Institutions	UT Southwestern UCSF Parnassus National Institutes of Health

Rector was recruited to UT Southwestern as a medical student by Donald Seldin. He did a fellowship at the NIH studying acid-base metabolism^[1] for two years before returning to the faculty at UTSW.^[2]

Rector was chief of the division of nephrology at UCSF Parnassus from 1973 to 1989, where he became chair of the department of medicine until 1995.^[3]

Rector was elected president of the American Society of Nephrology in 1976.^[3]

See also

• Acid–base homeostasis