Allen J. Brimmer, 62, a primary care doctor with Kaiser Permanente in the 

Washington area, died May 16 [2010] at a hospital in Cambridge, Mass., after 

a heart attack. He was a Chevy Chase resident.

Dr. Brimmer had been practicing in the Washington area since 1995. Before 

that he'd been overseeing reproductive health projects in Tanzania for the 

U.S. Agency for International Development.

He'd previously served as a clinical physician with the Barbados Health 

Ministry and as a public health adviser in the Caribbean island nation of 

Grenada. Before going overseas, Dr. Brimmer worked as a family physician in 

the 1980s with Kaiser Permanente in the Washington area.

Allen Jay Brimmer, a native Washingtonian, was a 1966 graduate of Walter 

Johnson High School in Bethesda. He received a bachelor's degree from the 

University of Chicago in 1970 and a medical degree from the University of 

Illinois in Chicago in 1976. He received a master's degree in public health 

from Johns Hopkins University in 1986.

His marriage to Dolores Koenig ended in divorce.

Survivors include his wife Margott Thorne of Chevy Chase; a son from his 

first marriage, Charles Brimmer of Waukesha, Wis.; two daughters from his 

second marriage, Dawn Brimmer and Nicole Brimmer, both of Chevy Chase; a 

brother, Robert Brimmer of Elkton, Md.; two sisters, Patti FitzGerald of 

Potomac and Donna Thewes of Laurel; and a granddaughter.