Outstanding Mentor Award Joel Habener, MA, MD Joel Habener, MA, MD, has been a leader in the identification and characterization of peptide hormone genes, transcription factors and mechanisms regulating β-cell function and survival. Among the seminal discoveries emanating from his lab, the identification of the first biological actions of GLP-1 is perhaps the most... Outstanding Mentor Award Joel Habener, MA, MD Joel Habener, MA, MD, has been a leader in the identification and characterization of peptide hormone genes, transcription factors and mechanisms regulating β-cell function and survival. Among the seminal discoveries emanating from his lab, the identification of the first biological actions of GLP-1 is perhaps the most...
Outstanding Leadership in Endocrinology Award Lawrence A. Frohman, MD Lawrence Frohman, MD, has had a long and distinguished career as a scientific and clinical leader, accomplished basic and clinical mentor, and outstanding teaching, service, and administrative achievements. He developed one of the first RIAs for rat growth hormone and identified and partially purified a GHRH...
Roy O. Greep Award for Outstanding Research Robert V. Farese Jr., MD Robert V. Farese Jr., MD, professor of genetics and complex diseases at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, is honored by the Endocrine Society with the Roy O. Greep Award for Outstanding Research for his seminal contributions to our understanding of cellular...
Outstanding Innovation Award Barry Komm, PhD Barry Komm, PhD, has been investigating the role of estrogens and SERMs in the reproductive tract since 1982, when he was a post-doctoral fellow with Richard Lyttle at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1985, Dr. Komm moved to the University of Arizona, where he studied the role of...
Outstanding Clinical Practitioner Award Marcello Bronstein, MD, PhD Marcello Bronstein, MD, PhD, is a unique professional physician with a remarkable record of clinical excellence and creative scholarship. Marcello is the consummate physician-healer-scholar-investigator. He runs a very large clinic treating thousands of patients with pituitary disorders — likely one of the largest such referral specialty care...
Outstanding Educator Award Carolyn Becker, MD Carolyn B. Becker, MD, is a superb clinical endocrinologist who is widely recognized for her longstanding devotion to mentoring and education, her outstanding clinical acumen, and her exceptional teaching skills. Dr. Becker received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School (HMS), residency training from Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago,...
Fred Conrad Koch Lifetime Achievement Award Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, MD Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, MD, has made paradigm-shifting contributions in endocrine physiology and the role of hormones in disease pathogenesis (focus on gender differences) in cardiovascular disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, and breast cancer. It is hard to imagine the existence of any other individual whose work reflects such staggering...