SDRC PILOT AND FEASIBILITY AWARD PROGRAM

Program Director

Fredric B. Kraemer, M.D. received his Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Emory University in 1970 and his M.D. from New York University in 1974. He was a house officer in Internal Medicine at Kings County/Downstate Medical Center (1974-1978) and a postdoctoral fellow in Endocrinology at Stanford University (1978-1982). He joined the faculty in the Department of Medicine at Stanford in 1983, with an appointment at the Palo Alto VA Hospital in 1988. Dr. Kraemer currently holds the Stanford University Professorship in Endocrinology and served as the Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Gerontology and Metabolism through 2021. He is also a staff physician at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. He was Associate Chief of Staff for Research and Development at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System from 2002-2007. His clinical and research interests have been focused on diabetes and cellular lipid metabolism. Dr. Kraemer's research program has been supported throughout his career by grants from the NIH and the Department of Veterans Affairs. He has won several awards including a Special Emphasis Research Career Award from the NIH, a SmithKline Beecham Junior Faculty Award in Diabetes, and an Arteriosclerosis Special Recognition Award from the Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology of the American Heart Association. Dr. Kraemer has served as president of the Western States Affiliate of the American Hearth Association, on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the University of California Tobacco-Related Disease Program, and the University of Minnesota Obesity Center, and the Advisory Board of the Deuel Conference on Lipids. In addition, he has served on a number of grant review boards for VA, NIH, American Diabetes Association and American Heart Association.