Three Endocrine Society members have been recognized by the American Diabetes Association® (ADA) as recipients of its 2020 National Scientific and Health Care Achievement Awards. The awards recognize academics, healthcare providers, and educators who have contributed to tangible advances in the field of diabetes care and research. Each recipient has shown outstanding commitment to achieving...
Author: Mark Newman
Michael Tuttle, MD Outstanding Scholarly Physician Award Michael Tuttle, MD, is professor of medicine, Cornell University and clinical director of the Endocrine Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital. He is a leading clinician-investigator in the field of thyroid cancer and his work has shifted the paradigm in differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) treatment. Dr. Tuttle is a...
Peter A. Singer, MD Vigersky Outstanding Clinical Practitioner Award Peter A. Singer, MD, has had a great impact through the years in improving the care of people with endocrine diseases, by his outstanding role in supporting community physicians and his model as a teacher and mentor of medical students, house officers, and endocrine fellows. In...
Roy Shires, MBBCh, PhD, FRCP International Excellence in Endocrinology Award Roy Shires is a professor of medicine at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He became the first head of the Division of Endocrinology at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, the world’s third largest hospital and the only tertiary medical facility serving the largely impoverished and...
Richard J. Santen, MD Fred Conrad Koch Lifetime Achievement Award Richard J. Santen, MD, is professor of medicine at the University of Virginia and a former president of the Endocrine Society. His impressive clinical and research career has focused on both prostate and breast cancer. His pioneering work led to the development of first, second,...
Alvin C. Powers, MD Outstanding Educator Award Alvin C. Powers, director of the Vanderbilt Diabetes Center, has made special contributions to education as director of the Vanderbilt Medical Student Research Training Program and director of the NIDDK Medical Student Research Program (DK-MSRP). The former is a NIH-supported program enabling medical students from throughout the nation... For the first time since World War II, the Endocrine Society has cancelled its annual conference, ENDO 2020, following dire reports regarding COVID-19 from the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and local health authorities in San Francisco, the site of the conference. “We have been clear all along that...
Christopher B. Newgard, PhD Outstanding Innovation Award Christopher B. Newgard’s professional career has been devoted to metabolic research. Within the Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center and Duke Molecular Physiology Institute (DMPI) where he is the director, he has developed a suite of comprehensive molecular profiling platforms across the “omics” sciences to support the...