Vigersky Outstanding Clinical Practitioner Award Frances J. Hayes, MBBCh Frances J. Hayes’s outstanding clinical skills were evident during medical school, when she was awarded the Gold Medal in Clinical Medicine at graduation. After clinical and research leadership roles at the University of Dublin and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Dr. Hayes currently serves as the...
Fred Conrad Koch Lifetime Achievement Award Phillip Gorden, MD For the past 50 years, Phil Gorden has improved the lives of people around the world though his scientific contributions leading to enhanced diagnosis, characterization, and treatment of diabetes and other endocrine conditions. As a physician‐scientist, he has always been systematically patient focused, which created...
Outstanding Mentor Award James R. Gavin, III, MD, PhD James Raphael Gavin III, MD, PhD, is a clinical professor of medicine at Emory University and Indiana University, the CEO & Chief Medical Officer of Healing Our Village, Inc., and the national program director emeritus for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Harold Amos Medical Faculty...
Outstanding Educator Award Ann Danoff, MD Ann Danoff is a first-rate educator and exemplifies all that is wonderful about teaching. She served as division director and program director (PD) of the Endocrine Fellowship at NYU for 13 years. With the benefit of a rich variety of patients and her ability to inspire colleagues to...
Sidney H. Ingbar Distinguished Service Award Sally A. Camper, PhD Sally Camper is a professor in the Department of Human Genetics and Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan. She served as the James V. Neel Professor and chair of the Department of Human Genetics from 2005 to 2015 and from 2016 to present she...
Outstanding Clinical Investigator Award Richard J. Auchus, MD, PhD Rich Auchus is professor of medicine and pharmacology at the University of Michigan and the world’s foremost authority on steroid-related diseases. His pioneering science has transformed fundamental principles of steroid biosynthesis, and his clinical investigation has repeatedly changed clinical practice — for androgen synthesis, endocrine hypertension,...
Last month, Joshua Joseph, MD, MPH, FAHA, was awarded the 2021 Philanthropist of the Year Award by the Medical Mutual Pillar Award for Community Service. The Medical Mutual Pillar Award for Community Service is presented by Smart Business magazine to businesses that make outstanding contributions to their communities. Joseph was honored as Medical Mutual’s Philanthropist...
Endocrine Society president Gary D. Hammer, MD, PhD, discusses receiving the COVID-19 vaccine and why it’s imperative for endocrinologists to “stand behind the science.” Endocrine Society president Gary D. Hammer, MD, PhD, on December 22, 2020, received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and his second dose on January 12, 2021, joining a growing...