Paul F. Brenner ’57

Paul F. Brenner ’57, M.D., of North Hollywood, California, passed away on July 30. Paul graduated from Albany (New York) Academy High School. At Dartmouth he was a history major and a member of Phi Tau, participated in crew and the rowing club, and was on the dormitory committee his junior and senior years. In 1962 he earned his medical degree from Northwestern University Medical School. He completed a one-year rotating internship at Passavant Memorial Hospital in Chicago, served two years in the U.S. Army, and returned to Passavant for residency training in obstetrics and gynecology. He developed a strong interest in research in reproductive endocrinology and infertility that led him to fellowships in Texas and Sweden, where he met his wife, Mirjam. Paul also met Daniel Mishell, M.D., an expert in family planning who offered Paul a position in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center. Paul served there from 1973 until he retired in 2011. As a member of the faculty he became director of the residency program and the human research committee. He was frequently asked to speak at medical conferences, served as an expert witness in legal cases, and was coeditor of four volumes of Management of Common Problems in Obstetrics and Gynecology. He is survived by Mirjam, two daughters, and three “high-energy, unpredictable, and sensational grandsons.”