John Wass, MD, MA, FRCP Outstanding Leadership in Endocrinology Award John Wass, MD, MA, FRCP, is a clinical researcher and educator at Oxford University in Oxford, England, whose contributions have had a significant effect on patients with pituitary disease. His early observations about the importance of single-surgeon expertise for acromegaly outcomes paved the way many... John Wass, MD, MA, FRCP Outstanding Leadership in Endocrinology Award John Wass, MD, MA, FRCP, is a clinical researcher and educator at Oxford University in Oxford, England, whose contributions have had a significant effect on patients with pituitary disease. His early observations about the importance of single-surgeon expertise for acromegaly outcomes paved the way many...
Michael W. Schwartz, MD Roy O. Greep Award for Outstanding Research Michael W. Schwartz, MD, holds the Robert H. Williams Chair in Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, Wash., where he has been on faculty since 1996. He’s published over 260 peer-reviewed studies that have shaped our understanding of how the brain regulates energy balance and glucose homeostasis,...
Simon J. Rhodes, PhD Sidney H. Ingbar Distinguished Service Award Simon J. Rhodes, PhD, was appointed as the provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Fla. in 2019. Over the last 15 years, Rhodes has reached trainees and early-career investigators around the world and given special attention to diversity, equity, and inclusion. ...
Jane E.B. Reusch, MD Outstanding Mentor Award Jane E.B. Reusch, MD, is a professor of medicine and biochemistry at the University of Colorado Denver and Denver VAMC, and associate director of the Center for Women’s Health Research in Denver, Colo. Her professional mission has been to extend her experience and expertise to train the next generation of diabetes researchers. Reusch has mentored 77 trainees through...
Karel Pacak, MD, PhD, DSc Outstanding Clinical Investigator Award Karel Pacak, MD, Phd, DSc, is chief of the Section on Medical Neuroendocrinology and head of the Developmental Endocrinology, Metabolism, Genetics and Endocrine Oncology Affinity Group of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the Intramural NIH Research Program in Bethesda, Md. His...
Kathryn A. Martin, MD Outstanding Educator Award Kathryn A. Martin, MD, is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and has been a faculty member and practicing clinician in the Reproductive Endocrine Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mass., since 1989. In addition to her clinical practice, Martin has an active teaching...
Rita Rastogi Kalyani, MD, MHS Outstanding Public Service Award Rita Rastogi Kalyani, MD, MHS, is an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md, where she’s an active clinician and sees patients regularly in the Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Diabetes Center. Kalyani...
Shingo Kajimura, PhD Richard E. Weitzman Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award As an investigator at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston Mass., Shingo Kajimura, PhD, has made pioneering contributions to the field of endocrinology and metabolism by identifying the key determinants of adipose tissue development and function. Kajimura’s work transformed our fundamental understandings of how brown/beige fat controls energy homeostasis...
