Bruce C. Kone

Quick Facts

Full Name	Bruce C. Kone
Occupation	American Swimmer
Date Of Birth	Jan 29, 1958(1958-01-29)
Age	66
Birthplace	Frankfurt
Country	Germany
Birth City	Hesse
Horoscope	Capricorn

Bruce C. Kone Biography

Bruce C. Kone is one of the most popular and richest American swimmer who was born on January 29, 1958 in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. Bruce C. Kone (born on the 29th of January 1958) is a American Professor, Nephrologist, and molecular biologist. Kone also is the United States Masters Swimming (USMS) national record holder, a 23-time USMS national champion and eight times FINA Masters world’s most highly ranked age-group swimmer. He is currently an appointed medical professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston (UTHealth).

He has been an associate editor for Clinical and Translational Science, and is a member of the editorial committees for the American Journal of Physiology. Renal Physiology, the American Journal of Physiology. In addition, there is Endocrinology as well as Metabolism and the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Kidney International, the American Journal of Medicine, and the World Journal of Biological Chemistry. Kone was a member of the Florida Tobacco Education and Use Prevention Advisory Council of the Florida Department of Health, the Board of the Memorial Hermann Healthcare System Physicians of Texas, Houston, Texas, as well as the Chairman and President of the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute. Kone was a former Member of the Public Policy Committee of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology. He was elected by his peers to “Best Doctors in America” 2005-2019. He was also named the Marquis “Who’s Who In America” and “Who’s Who in the World” from 2009 to 2019 in 2009 – 2019 and “Who’s Who in Science and Engineering” from 2010 to 2016. In 2016, Kone was appointed as a member of the Academy of Master Educators at the McGovern Medical School of The University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. Kone is also acknowledged by the American record holder (2014, 2015), American records holder (2014 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019) and All-American (2010 and 2013-2019) and Pool All-Star (2014 2019, 2019) and 23-time national age-group Champion for United States Masters Swimming. Kone also held the FINA Masters first-place ranking around 2013. He also was awarded two first-place world ranking in 2014. He also earned as well as a first-place world ranking in 2016, 2015 2018 and 2019, and a third place world ranking in 2019.

Kone was a professor in Kone was a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1989-91) and at the University of Florida College of Medicine (1991-95) prior to becoming a faculty member at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston (now named McGovern Medical School). McGovern Medical School) in 1995. Kone was chosen by Nobel awardee Ferid Murad to serve as the first director for the department of clinical pharmacology (1998-99). Kone continued to become Director of the department of hypertension and renal disease (2000-06) Vice-chairman (2000-03) and later chairperson (2004-07) in the internal medicine department (2004-07) and the in the inaugural year, holder of the James T. and Nancy B. Willerson Chair (2001-07) at the institution. He was also the chief of kidney disease (2000-06) and also of Internal Medicine (2004-07) within Memorial Hermann – Texas Medical Center Hospital and was the head of the nephrology department in The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (2000-06). In 2007 at the age of 49, he was the youngest dean of a medical school of the United States when he was named as the Folke H. Peterson/Dean’s Outstanding Professor as well as the the eighth Dean at the University of Florida College of Medicine. As Dean, he played an integral role in the establishment of partnerships with the University of Florida and the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute and Shands HealthCare for cancer care as well as research. He also recruited an internationally-respected leading expert in cancer care as well as research Joseph V. Simone, M.D., to be the director of his department at the University of Florida and Shands Cancer Center. Kone also advocated for innovative clinical quality, accessibility as well as safety measures. In his time as dean the number of specialties offered at the UF-affiliated Shands Teaching Hospital recognized in the U.S. News and World Report rankings of “America’s Best Hospitals” increased from 7 to 11. Shands Healthcare was selected for the Governor’s Sterling Award in recognition of outstanding performance. The UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute established, the UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute was created and state funding for the University of Florida for medical education was increased for the first time in the span of seven years. Kone was also a champion of gender equity and diversity and expanded his Office of Minority Affairs, making the first African-American to be head of a department of the University of Florida College of Medicine and selecting women for endowed professorships department chairs, as well as associate dean post.

Bruce C. Kone Net Worth

Bruce C. Kone is one of the richest American Swimmer from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bruce C. Kone 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Naturalized citizenship from the United States, he was born in Frankfurt, Germany. He went to Pine Crest Preparatory School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where there was an award for scholar-athletes All-American swimmer and was selected for the Athletic Hall of Fame and the Arete Society. He graduated in 1979 and earned his A.B. in English (cum louise) and was captain of the swimming team of the varsity on the campus of Princeton University. Then, he finished his M.D. (Honors of research) in the University of Florida College of Medicine in 1983. He then completed an internal medicine residency in Johns Hopkins Hospital. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a nephrology fellowship in Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

Kone was elected as a Fellow of the AAAS as well as The American College of Physicians, the American College of Clinical Pharmacology as well as the American Society of Nephrology, and the American Heart Association, and to be a member of and membership in the American Clinical and Climatological Association He was awarded an established investigator award from The American Heart Association, and has been continually funded through the National Institutes of Health for his kidney research since the year 1986. Kone was the President of the Southern Society of Clinical Investigation and was an active part of the Leadership Council on the Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease of the American Heart Association.

In May 2008, University of Florida president J. Bernard Machen abruptly “relieved” Kone of his duties as Dean of the University of Florida College of Medicine amid controversy regarding Kone’s decision — publicly supported by Machen — to override the medical selection committee and admit the son of a politically active physician who was personally recommended by Governor Charlie Crist and State Senate President Ken Pruitt, which was disclosed when medical selection committee members illegally breached the accepted student’s confidentiality to the press, (the student subsequently graduated from the UF College of Medicine and is a practicing physician) and Kone’s objections regarding “deals” that had been struck by his predecessor C. Craig TIsher, M.D. and senior administrative officials to rehire senior administrators who had completed the Deferred Retirement Option Program (DROP), in particular the continued employment in an endowed position of senior associate dean Robert W. Watson, M.D. Kone defended his decision to override the medical selection committee in public statements, and in a letter to the editor of Academic Medicine. The University of Florida investigated the DROP matter and concluded that senior UF officials violated the spirit of a University policy by receiving DROP payouts to retire and then be rehired without searches for other candidates, in some cases also receiving perks such as bonuses and raises. The report also concluded that Kone’s refusal to honor the Watson agreement prevented violation of law. On June 18, 2009, Florida Governor Crist signed into law the “Double-dipping Reform Bill” to prevent state employees from simultaneously collecting retirement benefits and a salary. On June 30, 2009, Kone resigned from the University of Florida to return to the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and received a settlement award of $517,000 from the University of Florida Board of Trustees.

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Bruce Ranked on the list of most popular American swimmer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Bruce C. Kone celebrates birthday on January 29 of every year.