Four Endocrine Society members received prestigious awards from the American Thyroid Association (ATA) during its 86th Annual Meeting September 21 – 25 in Denver, Colo.
Those being honored were Nancy Carrasco, MD, who received the 2016 Sidney H. Ingbar Distinguished Lectureship Award; Gregory A. Brent, MD, who received the 2016 Distinguished Service Award; P. Reed Larsen, MD, who received the 2016 Lewis E. Braverman Lectureship Award; and the John B. Stanbury Thyroid Pathophysiology Medal was presented to Kenneth D. Burman, MD.
Carrasco, professor of cellular and molecular physiology at Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn., is being recognized for her outstanding academic achievements in thyroidology. She has made seminal contributions to thyroidology, primarily through her discovery of the sodium/iodide symporter (NIS) and the characterization of its biochemistry and function. In 2015, in recognition of her seminal contributions to biomedical research, Carrasco was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
Brent, chair of the Department of Medicine at VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, and is being recognized by his peers for his work with the ATA to support programs that brought together clinicians, scientists, and policy makers to address thyroid-related issues of significant impact.
Larsen, a member of the Thyroid Section, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, delivered the Lewis E. Braverman Lecture, entitled “Deiodinases, Cofactors & the Low T3 Syndrome,” at the ATA event. This award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated excellence and passion for mentoring fellows, students and junior faculty, has a long history of productive thyroid research.
Burman, chief of the Endocrine Section at Medstar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, D.C., professor in the Department of Medicine at Georgetown University as well as program director of the Integrated Endocrine Fellowship, Georgetown University/Washington Hospital Center, was recognized for his outstanding research contributions to the understanding of thyroid physiology or the pathophysiology of thyroid disease. A former editorial board member of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Burman’s research focus has been in the areas of clinical pathophysiology, autoimmune thyroid disease, and thyroid cancer.
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