Doug Bremner

Doug Bremner is a professor, physician, researcher, writer, and director, from Atlanta, Georgia, and President and CEO of Laughing Cow Productions, which he co-founded with his wife Viola Vaccarino in 2012. He grew up in Olympia, Washington, and attended college at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, and medical school at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina. He has written several non-fiction books, including "Does Stress Damage the Brain?" (WW Norton, 2002), "Before You Take That Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad For Your Health" (Penguin, 2008), and "The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg" (Right Publishing, 2011), which is also a screenplay. He has written several screenplays and was a finalist in the Charleston International Film Festival Screenwriting Competition in 2011 and a quarter-finalist in the PAGE Awards Screenwriting Competition in 2011 for comedy. In 2012 he directed and produced one of his screenplays, Inheritance, Italian Style (2014), which was filmed in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2012. He also played a minor role as the Delivery Man in the film.