The Endocrine Society and Avalere Health have launched a first of its kind quality improvement intervention study in primary care practice to address the clinical gaps in identifying and treating hypoglycemia in older adults with type 2 diabetes. The Society and Avalere have partnered with Pottstown Medical Specialists (PMSI), a physician-owned multispecialty group in Pottstown,...
Clinical Endocrinology Update Goes Bicoastal for a Second Year
After the success of last year’s special issue to promote and highlight the Endocrine Society’s Clinical Endocrinology Update (CEU) program, we decided to make it an annual tradition. For the second year in a row, CEU will take place twice in the September on both the East and West Coasts — Sept. 5 – 7...Sharing & Caring: Endocrine Society Hosts Primary Care Collaboration Roundtable
The Endocrine Society last Wednesday hosted stakeholders representing each of the nation’s major primary care associations for a roundtable aimed at identifying the best ways to collaborate – sharing resources and supporting one another in order to improve patient care. Representatives from six medical associations – the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the American...Standing Room Only: The NIH’s Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD Opens ENDO 2019
Every ENDO is packed with exciting, groundbreaking science, and of course, one of the highlights each year is the Presidential Plenary. To officially open the proceedings of ENDO 2019 in New Orleans, attendees were fortunate to have Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, the director of the National Institutes of Health, deliver the Presidential Plenary speech,... The Endocrine Society expressed major opposition to a rule proposed today by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that would jeopardize transgender individuals’ access to healthcare. The proposed regulation would weaken the previous administration’s definition of “sex discrimination” to remove protections for gender identity. Patients could be turned away or denied medical care...
ENDO 2019: Teresa Woodruff Charts the History of Reproductive Transplants in Sawin Lecture
The 2019 Delbert A. Fisher Award recipient is Teresa K. Woodruff, PhD, dean of The Graduate School and Chief of Reproductive Biology Research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University in Chicago. Each year, the Delbert A. Fisher Research Scholar Award provides a $2,000 honorarium to a scholar demonstrating exceptional work in...Endocrine Society Congratulates 2019 Early Investigators Award Winners
The Endocrine Society has selected five recipients for its Early Investigators Awards. The Early Investigators Awards were established to assist in the development of early career investigators and to provide greater recognition of their accomplishments in endocrine-related research. “One of the biggest challenges endocrine fellows and junior faculty face is gaining recognition and obtaining access to the resources they need for professional development,”...
ENDO 2019 News: CPAP Machine Improves Weight Loss in Dieting Adults with Obesity, Sleep Apnea
When trying to lose weight by cutting calories, people who have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in addition to obesity can lose more weight if they treat their sleep disorder with an overnight CPAP, or continuous positive airway pressure, machine. This finding of a new study was at ENDO 2019 in New Orleans, La. “Some people...
