Endocrine Society Announces 2020 Early Investigators Award Winners
The Endocrine Society has selected five recipients for its 2020 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. The Endocrine Society’s 2020 Early Investigators Award winners are: Mehmet Furkan Burak, MD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Mass. His research...
Greet Van den Berghe, MD, PhD International Excellence in Endocrinology Award Prof. Dr. Greet Van den Berghe, MD, PhD, is currently head of the Department & Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine at the KU Leuven – University of Leuven. This intensive care unit is a large, 67-bed tertiary center treating over 3,100 patients annually including...
Michael Tuttle, MD Outstanding Scholarly Physician Award Michael Tuttle, MD, is professor of medicine, Cornell University and clinical director of the Endocrine Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital. He is a leading clinician-investigator in the field of thyroid cancer and his work has shifted the paradigm in differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) treatment. Dr. Tuttle is a...
Peter A. Singer, MD Vigersky Outstanding Clinical Practitioner Award Peter A. Singer, MD, has had a great impact through the years in improving the care of people with endocrine diseases, by his outstanding role in supporting community physicians and his model as a teacher and mentor of medical students, house officers, and endocrine fellows. In...
Roy Shires, MBBCh, PhD, FRCP International Excellence in Endocrinology Award Roy Shires is a professor of medicine at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He became the first head of the Division of Endocrinology at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, the world’s third largest hospital and the only tertiary medical facility serving the largely impoverished and...
Richard J. Santen, MD Fred Conrad Koch Lifetime Achievement Award Richard J. Santen, MD, is professor of medicine at the University of Virginia and a former president of the Endocrine Society. His impressive clinical and research career has focused on both prostate and breast cancer. His pioneering work led to the development of first, second,...
Alvin C. Powers, MD Outstanding Educator Award Alvin C. Powers, director of the Vanderbilt Diabetes Center, has made special contributions to education as director of the Vanderbilt Medical Student Research Training Program and director of the NIDDK Medical Student Research Program (DK-MSRP). The former is a NIH-supported program enabling medical students from throughout the nation...
