Ashley Grossman, MD, FRCP Outstanding Mentor Award Ashley Grossman has trained many leading endocrinologists in Europe and the world. With his amazing ability to combine superb clinical knowledge and many years of patient-related experience with up-to-date detailed knowledge of basic science, he enthusiastically transferred his love of academic and clinical endocrinology to his younger colleagues.... Ashley Grossman, MD, FRCP Outstanding Mentor Award Ashley Grossman has trained many leading endocrinologists in Europe and the world. With his amazing ability to combine superb clinical knowledge and many years of patient-related experience with up-to-date detailed knowledge of basic science, he enthusiastically transferred his love of academic and clinical endocrinology to his younger colleagues....
Andrew Dauber, MD Richard E. Weitzman Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award Andrew Dauber, MD, is the chief of endocrinology at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. He is an exceptional clinician-scientist who has successfully applied innovative genetic technologies to pediatric endocrinology and with friendly international collaborations his discoveries made major contributions to our understanding of...
Researcher Daniel J. Drucker, MD, has been awarded the Endocrine Society’s John D. Baxter Prize for Entrepreneurship for his contributions to diabetes treatment, the Society announced today. Drucker’s research has contributed greatly to the understanding and treatment of diabetes over the last 25 years. He discovered new mechanisms of hormone action enabling the development of...
Five endocrinologists to join Board of Directors Endocrine Society members have elected Carol H. Wysham, MD, to serve as the organization’s President for the 2021-2022 term. Wysham is an endocrinologist at Rockwood/MultiCare Health Systems in Spokane, Wash., and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington. She will serve as President-Elect for a year...
Jean Rivier was a chemist both in training and spirit, but by isolating and characterizing many then-undiscovered peptide hormones, and providing the synthetic peptide tools critical to experimental biology to study them, he became a pioneer of our modern understanding of the biological roles of peptides in regulating nearly all physiologic systems ranging from endocrinology...
Carolyn Smith, PhD, professor of molecular and cellular biology and chair of the Endocrine Society’s Annual Meeting Steering Committee (AMSC), was named dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Smith is also a member of the Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center where her research...
The seventh annual meeting of EndoBridge® took place October 24-27, 2019 in Antalya, Turkey, co-hosted by the Endocrine Society and European Society of Endocrinology in collaboration with the Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism of Turkey. The meeting was held in English with simultaneous translation into Russian, Arabic, and Turkish and accredited by the European Accreditation...
On October 31, Endocrine Society immediate past-president Susan Mandel, MD, MPH, was recognized by the American Thyroid Association’s (ATA) Women in Thyroidology (WIT) with its 2019 Women in Thyroidology Woman of the Year Award. The WIT Woman of the Year award was established in 2012 to recognize outstanding women who have demonstrated a long-standing commitment...
