Outstanding Educator Award
Laurence Katznelson, MD
Professor Laurence Katznelson, MD, has had a very productive career as a clinical investigator in neuroendocrinology, making important contributions to our understanding of acromegaly, Cushing disease, and hypopituitarism. Moreover, he is clearly one of the elite endocrinology and internal medicine educators in the U.S.
As the director of the Endocrine Training Program at Stanford, he reconfigured the training curriculum, adding new fellow-based lectures and interdisciplinary conferences. Dr. Katznelson has won the Endocrine Division Teaching Award in an election by fellows and faculty, and he received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the School of Medicine.
He also served on the leadership council for APDEM. Larry has had a profound and lasting influence on endocrine training nationwide through his role as the director the Endocrine Society’s Early Investigators Workshop for Trainees Program. Through this venue, Dr. Katznelson extended his educational outreach to literally hundreds of endocrine fellows around the world.
Dr. Katznelson is currently the Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education (GME). In this role, he has succeeded in promoting training in quality improvement, spearheading wellness initiatives to prevent burnout and stress, and expanding recruitment and retention of under-represented minorities into the training programs and faculty. He is now a leader in GME on a national level.
Dr. Katznelson recently served as the chair of the task force for developing guidelines on the management of acromegaly for the Endocrine Society. He has served as chair for the Special Programs Committee, a committee tasked with expanding educational programs in endocrinology. He also served as AACE’s task force chair for the 2011 update to the Acromegaly Guidelines, and he is also currently the chair of the Pituitary and Neuroendocrine Research Committee for AACE. In recognition of his work in education, he was awarded the H. Jack Baskin, MD, Endocrine Teaching Award at the AACE Congress Meeting in 2015.
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