C. Alvin Paulsen, MD (Emeritus)

Professor Emeritus of Medicine
Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition
University of Washington

Dr. Paulsen is Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of Washington, and previously served as director of the Population Center for Research in Reproduction at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington.  He has served as chief of research at the U.S. Public Health Service Pacific Medical Center, where he held the position of Chief of Endocrinology. 

Dr. Paulsen received his BA in 1947 from the University of Washington, and his MD in 1952 from the University of Oregon.  Following service in the U.S. Navy, he became director of the laboratories at the Pacific Northwest Research Foundation.

Dr. Paulsen’s research has concentrated on studies of the male reproductive system with major research contributions that have included the recognition of sex chromosome mosaicism and its concomitant clinical and pathologic manifestations in patients with Klinefelter syndrome, the delineation of the clinical characteristics and treatment modalities of patients with hypogonadotropic enunochoidism, and documentation of the relationship between variocele and abnormal spermatogenesis with infertility. 

Dr. Paulsen has contributed numerous articles to professional and scientific journals, and in addition to his long service on the KS&A Scientific Advisory Committee, has served on advisory boards for the National Institute of Health and on the Male Task Force for the World Health Organization.  He is past president of the Pacific Coast Fertility Society, the American Society of Andrology, and the American Fertility Society.