William Philip Creger (April 15, 1922–August 9, 2013) was an American internist with a specialty in hematology. He was both a student and faculty member at Stanford and won a Guggenheim Fellowship for his research in 1970. He was also the editor of the Annual Review of Medicine from 1974 to 1993.
Creger became a faculty member at Stanford in 1949; in 1952 he became a full professor. He took leave from Stanford during the Korean War, as he served in the United States Army as a captain. In the military, he conducted research on tuberculosis. From 1968–1977, he was the associate dean of student affairs.[2] Other positions he held at Stanford included head of its division of hematology and director of the clinical laboratories at Stanford University Medical Center.[4] He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1970 in the "Medicine and Health" category.[1] Creger retired from Stanford in 1992.[2]
Creger had varied interests. He played the viola in a string quartet, enjoyed reading Sherlock Holmes stories and the poetry of Yeats, and gardened. He and his wife Nancy née Smith married in 1950[6] and had four children.[2] Creger died on August 9, 2013, at the age of 91.[1][2]
