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 Peter Grimm, D.O.
Doctor Peter Grimm is married to Dawn Winters, PhD and has two children, Robyn and Justin. He is a prostate cancer specialist and Director of Clinical Research at the Seattle Prostate Institute, which is part of the esteemed Swedish Cancer Institute. Dr. Grimm received his undergraduate education at Seattle University, medical education at Midwestern University (Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, and his graduate training in radiation oncology at UCLA. In the late 1980’s he helped pioneer a low-dose brachytherapy technique known as seed implantation for prostate cancer. Dr. Grimm, along with his colleagues, established the Seattle Prostate Institute (SPI) in 1997.
As CEO of SPI from 1997 to 2004, he was instrumental in forming SPIE, an educational business dedicated to training and support of brachytherapy physicians. He and his colleagues have treated over ten thousand patients and have trained numerous physicians from around the world in prostate brachytherapy. Over one thousand centers now perform seed implantation, which is now a treatment of choice for men with prostate cancer.
Dr. Grimm’s technical endeavors, such as his development of six U.S. patented devices have lead to continuous improvements in the equipment widely used in prostate implantation. He currently serves as one of fifteen physicians on the Medicare Practicing Physicians Advisory Board in Washington DC, is the CEO of ProQura, a medical quality assurance company, and serves on the ASTRO economic committee. He also serves on advisory boards for Nexcura, a medical advice and information company, Bard Urology, Oncura, and Watson Pharmaceuticals. As lead editor he and his partners also edited and published a collaborative book on prostate cancer, The Prostate Cancer Treatment Book, published by McGraw Hill in 2004.
Born and raised in Seattle, Dr. Grimm continues to pursue many civic activities, including his lifelong passion for preserving wild salmon by raising them on his property on Hood Canal in Washington State. For the past ten years, in a cooperative effort with the Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group and Washington State Department of Wildlife, he has released over 3 million wild salmon. He also serves as a board member for Long Live the Kings, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving wild salmon in the Northwest.
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