William J. Bremner

Dr. Bremner, a board certified internist, is the Robert G. Petersdorf Endowed Chair in Medicine and Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He is Co-Founder and Director of the Center for Research in Reproduction and Contraception at the University of Washington. Funded continuously by the NIH since 1979, the Center investigates the basic biology of male reproduction, infertility and contraception. Dr. Bremner is also an active physician and teacher at University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle. He is the author or co-author of over 200 scientific publications and over 50 book chapters and has held more than 100 invited lectureships and visiting professorships around the world over the past 25 years. In 2003, he received the University of Washington School of Medicine Distinguished Alumni Award; and in 2005, he was given the Mayo Soley Award by the Western Society for Clinical Investigation in recognition of lifetime achievement in scientific endeavors and for his concern for junior faculty. He has been elected to the scientific and honorary societies: American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Associations of American Physicians. Dr. Bremner serves as an at-large member of the American Board of Internal Medicine Board of Directors as well as the Governance committee. He is the past President of the Association of Professors of Medicine (APM) and the American Society of Andrology. He received the Robert H. Williams Distinguished Chair Award, the highest honor of the APM. He has served on numerous national and international bodies, including NIH review groups, the Steering Committee for the World Health Organization Special Program on Research in Human Reproduction and the Expert Advisory Committee, Agency for International Development/CONRAD Program and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Blue Ribbon Panel on Academic Affiliations.