Rodney Folz, MD

Dr. Folz was born and raised in southern Indiana.  He graduated with Honors from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana with a B.S. in Chemistry. He was accepted into the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri and graduated with an M.D. and Ph.D.  This was followed by an internship and residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Duke University. He first joined the faculty in Pulmonary and Critical Care at Duke where he became a tenured Associate Professor of Medicine. He was subsequently named Chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Disorders Medicine at the University of Louisville where he was also appointed as a tenured full professor and Distinguished University Scholar. Dr. Folz was then recruited to be Chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and tenured Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine before.  From Cleveland, he moved to Houston Methodist Hospital to take over as Chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine.