William Towner, MD, FACP, FIDSA
Physician Director
Division of Clinical Trials Research
Principal Investigator
Los Angeles Medical Center
Infectious Diseases
Clinical.Trials@kp.org
Biography
Dr. William Towner is the physician director for Clinical Trials and serves in a leadership role for HIV Services for Kaiser Permanente Southern California. He has been extensively involved in research on infectious diseases since 2000. His current clinical trial research focuses on HIV, HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, and vaccine safety and effectiveness.
He is also a professor in the Department of Clinical Science of the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine.
Dr. Towner has served as principal investigator for more than 150 clinical trials at Kaiser Permanente. This work has directly informed the scientific community about the effectiveness and safety of emerging medications. He also conducts outcomes research in infectious disease and related vaccines.
Areas of Focus
- HIV clinical trials
- Delivery of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis
- Infectious disease vaccine safety and effectiveness
Education
University of Southern California
University of California, Los Angeles
Honors and Awards
- Fellow, American College of Physicians
- Fellow, Infectious Diseases Society of America
- 2022 SCPMG Physician Researcher of the Year