Marc Drezner, UW ICTR Director
Director of the UW-ICTR is Marc K. Drezner, MD, who has ultimate responsibility for the academic activities of the UW-ICTR, as well as management of the resources and supervision of personnel. Dr. Drezner, Senior Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research in the School of Medicine and Public Health, is an active and experienced translational and clinical investigator. He is internationally known for his scientific work in bone and mineral metabolism and has made seminal contributions to the knowledge regarding several genetic diseases. He is also section head for endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism.
Dr. Drezner has served as Professor of Medicine and Head, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Section; Senior Vice Chairman of Research, Department of Medicine; Program Director of the GCRC; and most recently Associate Dean of Clinical and Translational Research in the School of Medicine and Public Health. He also serves on the National CTSA's Clinical Research Management & Community Engagement Key Function Committees. In the academic community, he has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research and Secretary-Treasurer of the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research.
Dr. Drezner also has an outstanding record of training clinical scientists. From 1983-2000 he was the Endocrinology and Diabetes Training Program Director at Duke University Medical Center, and from 2000 to the present he has assumed the same role at UW. During this period, he has personally trained 17 clinical scientists, most of whom currently hold positions at academic institutions. Most recently, as Director of the GCRC (which becomes part of ICTR on October 1, 2007), he has focused his efforts at encouraging the participation of young investigators with NIH support to perform studies on the GCRC.
As Director of the UW-ICTR, Dr. Drezner will have institutional responsibility for the Institute, which includes oversight of academic, administrative, strategic and fiscal functions and ensuring career development opportunities for new investigators in clinical and translational science. In addition, he will provide required information to NIH Program and Science Officers and collaborate with other CTSA sites to initiate collaborations and to adopt and implement actions recommended by the CTSA National Committee.
