Andrew Bremer, MD, PhD
NIDDK/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

Dr. Andrew A. Bremer joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a Medical Officer in November 2013 within the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases’ Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases, and was appointed in May 2018 to be the Chief of the Pediatric Growth and Nutrition Branch within the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). He is a board-certified internist, pediatrician, and pediatric endocrinologist, and has a Ph.D. in pharmacology. Prior to joining the NIH, he was an Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. His areas of interest and expertise include pediatric and adult endocrine disorders, the impact of maternal diet and gestational obesity/diabetes on fetal programming, the developmental origins of health and disease, the impact of the intrauterine environment on long-term maternal and child health outcomes, childhood obesity, and the role of nutrition in development throughout the life cycle. He is also the Acting Chief of the Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch at NICHD and the Program Official for NICHD’s Neonatal Research Network, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network, and Global Network for Women’s and Children’s Health Research.