66th APS President (1993-1994)
William H. Dantzler
(b. 1935)
William H. Dantzler was installed as the 66th President of the American
Physiological Society at the close of the Society's spring business meeting
in New Orleans. He succeeds Stanley Schultz.
Dantzler is Professor and Head of the Department of Physiology at the
University of Arizona College of Medicine. He has long been active in the
Society, having served as a member of the Membership Committee and the
Committee on Committees. He has also served as Secretary and Chairman of the
Renal Section, as Councillor and Chairman of the Section on Water and
Electrolyte Homeostasis, and as Councillor and Treasurer of the Comparative
Physiology Section.
Dantzler has played a particularly active role with the Society's
publications. He is currently the editor of the American Journal of
Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. He has
also served three years on the editorial boards of the American Journal
of Physiology and the Journal of Applied Physiology; four years
as a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Physiology:
Renal, Fluid and Electrolyte Physiology; and nine years as Associate
Editor of the American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative and
Comparative Physiology.
Dantzler earned his MD degree at Columbia University and his PhD degree
at Duke University, the latter under the direction of a distinguished past
president of the American Physiological Society, Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen.
Dantzler's career includes a number of stints as a visiting professor at the
Physiologisches Institut of the University of Wurzburg in the Federal
Republic of Germany and one at the Institut fur Physiologie of Innsbuck
University in Austria. He has been at the University of Arizona College of
Medicine since 1968 and has been a full professor since 1974.
Dantzler's research involves comparative renal physiology with particular
emphasis on the renal tubular transport of organic molecules. He has been
recognized at the University of Arizona College of Medicine numerous times
for his teaching, most recently as Basic Sciences Educator of the Year 1990
and with the Spotlight of Excellence Award for Outstanding Teaching and
Outreach to Medical Students in 1992.
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