Outstanding Public Service Award
Jean Pierre Bourguignon, MD, PhD, University of Liege
Andrea Gore, PhD, University of Texas
J. Pete Myers, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences
Thomas Zoeller, PhD, University of Massachusetts
For Outstanding Public Service, the Endocrine Society recognizes Drs. Andrea Gore, R. Thomas Zoeller, John Peterson (Pete) Myers, and Jean-Pierre Bourguignon for their citizenship, outreach, and scientific leadership in the area of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs).
These four individuals have worked tirelessly with the endocrine community to communicate to the public, scientists, healthcare professionals, and global governments about the role and impacts of EDCs on normal physiology, and how EDCs challenge long-used approaches in id
entifying toxic substances. Among the varied contributions of these individuals are co-authorship of the 2009 Scientific Statement on EDCs, integration of the topic into the Endocrine Society’s scientific offerings, and expansion of the Society’s advocacy beyond the U.S. borders. They have represented the Society to the U.S. Congress, U.S. EPA, EU Parliament, and the EU Commission, traveling around the globe to ensure that the best science is considered when environmental standards are created. In the process they have been tremendous stewards for the field of endocrinology.
In addition to these collective advances, each of these individuals has contributed enormously in the following ways. In establishing the Environmental Health Network, Pete Myers changed the relationship between scientists and the press, and improved the accuracy of scientific reporting. In 2005 and again in 2009, Andrea Gore and Tom Zoeller organized the Endocrine Society’s Forums on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals, and played key roles in developing the Endocrine Society Scientific Statement on EDCs in 2009, which was updated in 2015 under Dr. Gore’s leadership. Drs. Bourguignon and Zoeller founded and co-chaired task forces dedicated to the Society’s global work on EDCs and, in 2012, Zoeller led the Endocrine Society Statement of Principles for Policymakers. Dr. Bourguignon was particularly crucial to engaging the European community on EDC science and policy.
In 2014 all of these individuals signed onto the Endocrine Principles in EDC Policy, which has led the world in thinking about EDC science and health implications. For their public service to the field of endocrinology through their work in Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals the Endocrine Society recognizes and thanks Drs. Andrea Gore, R. Thomas Zoeller, John Peterson (Pete) Myers, and Jean-Pierre Bourguignon.
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