William C. Stanley is Professor of Medicine and Physiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. He is a native of northern California and attended undergraduate and graduate school at the Univ. of California, Berkeley. He received his PhD in exercise physiology under the mentorship of George Brooks in 1986 and performed studies on lactate kinetic in human skeletal and cardiac muscle. Stanley did a postdoctoral fellowship at the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of California, San Francisco, where he received training in cardiac physiology and myocardial metabolism and performed translational studies in humans and large animal model. In 1989, he joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin and initiated studies addressing the interregulation of carbohydrate and fat metabolism in normal and diabetic myocardium. In 1992, he left academic research and worked in the pharmaceutical industry in Palo Alto, CA, on drug discovery and development, specifically on novel treatments for heart failure and ischemic heart disease. In 1996, Stanley returned to academics, joining the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Case Western Reserve University, where he established a research program focused on integrative approaches to metabolic dysfunction in heart failure and myocardial ischemia. In 2007, he moved to his present position in the Division of Cardiology at the University of Maryland.
Stanley has broad experience in integrative cardiovascular physiology and has worked with a wide array of experimental systems and approaches, including isolated mitochondria, rodents, large animals, and humans. He has over 180 publications and has published extensively in the journals of the APS (44 papers and counting!). He has served as Associate Editor of American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology since 2005. His laboratory has been supported by grants from the American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health, and he has been active as a study section member in both organizations. Stanley is the founder and past president of the Society for Heart and Vascular Metabolism and is an active promoter of the field of cardiac metabolism and energetics by organizing national and international symposia and conferences.