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...
On December 14, Endocrine Society past-president E. Dale Abel, MD, PhD, was one of the first physicians at the University of Iowa’s Carver College of Medicine to receive the COVID-19 vaccination. Abel, chair of the Department of Internal Medicine; director, Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center; and professor of medicine, biochemistry and biomedical engineering...
Endocrine Society members have elected Ursula B. Kaiser, MD, to serve as the organization’s President for the 2022-2023 term. Kaiser is chief, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension and George W. Thorn, MD Distinguished Chair in Endocrinology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and director of the Brigham Research...
Alan Schneyer, PhD, was a distinguished researcher directing National Institutes of Health-funded laboratories at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Massachusetts – Amherst. After early work examining LH and FSH and their actions in species from dolphins to humans, Alan developed a laboratory studying hormones that regulate gonadotropins. His research focused on the...
Endocrine Society members Alison Boyce, MD, and Stephanie Chung, MBBS, are among the five scientists that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) selected for the 2020 Lasker Clinical Research Scholars program, a partnership with the Lasker Foundation that supports the emergence of the next generation of clinician-researchers. Chief of the Metabolic Bone Disorders Unit, National...
In October 2020, it was announced that Joy Wu, MD, PhD, has been appointed as vice chair, Basic and Translational Science, Department of Medicine, at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif. In this new role, Wu will provide leadership and vision to further the basic science research mission in the department. Wu is a board-certified...
Endocrine Society members Rexford Ahima, MD, PhD, Myles Brown, MD, Nancy Carrasco, MD, Mark Evers, MD, and Joel Hirschhorn, MD, PhD, have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). They are five of the 90 regular members and 10 international members who were announced on October 19 at NAM’s annual meeting. Election to...