Max Matthias Weder, MD
Pulmonary Critical Care
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Bio & Overview
Max Weder, MD, is the medical director of the UVA lung transplant program. He grew up in West Berlin when Berlin was still a divided city, and started medical school there a few weeks before the Berlin Wall came down. During medical school he met his wife-to-be, Uta Erdburgger, and a professor recommended them both to the internal medicine program at Tulane University in New Orleans. After completing their residencies at Tulane, both moved to UNC Chapel Hill, where Dr. Weder trained in pulmonary, critical care and lung transplant. The couple returned to Germany for a few years, then came back to the U.S. and joined the faculty at UVA. With the lung transplantation team, Dr. Weder has the opportunity to see patients go from debilitating end-stage lung disease back to a normal life, a transformation he finds highly rewarding.
Dr. Weder and his wife have triplet boys. Despite a very busy professional and family life, he tries to keep up with friends. He loves listening to classical music, closely follows international news and politics, and recently took up woodworking.
Academic Information
- Department
- Medicine
- Academic Role
- Associate Professor
- Division
- Pulmonary Critical Care
- Gender
- Male
- Languages
- German, French, English
- Age Groups Seen
- Adults (21-65)
Older Adults (65+)
- Primary Education
- Humboldt University
- Residency
- Tulane University School of Medicine
- Fellowships
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
- Certification
- American Board of Internal Medicine (Critical Care Medicine), American Board of Internal Medicine (Pulmonary Disease), American Board of Internal Medicine (Internal Medicine)
Highlights
My name is Max Weder. I am the Medical Director of Lung Transplant at UVA. I spend the majority of my clinical time treating and evaluating lung transplant patients. Patients with advanced lung disease who are being considered for a lung transplant come to my team for an evaluation. New patients can expect to be seen by a group of highly trained professionals that are trying to see the patient not as a summary of diagnoses but as an individual, very much acknowledging some of the fears and concerns that go into the process. I think the field of lung transplantation is unique in that it's a very extreme form of medicine and, I think, a very rewarding experience in general in that we get to see people when they're usually at a low point in their life and being told that they have advanced lung disease for which there are usually no viable medical treatment options. To be able to see how these patients then are oftentimes able to resume more or less a normal life is a very rewarding experience.
Awards
- 2017-2020 Best Doctors in America® List
Reviews
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