Outstanding Innovation Award Barry Komm, PhD Barry Komm, PhD, has been investigating the role of estrogens and SERMs in the reproductive tract since 1982, when he was a post-doctoral fellow with Richard Lyttle at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1985, Dr. Komm moved to the University of Arizona, where he studied the role of...
Outstanding Clinical Practitioner Award Marcello Bronstein, MD, PhD Marcello Bronstein, MD, PhD, is a unique professional physician with a remarkable record of clinical excellence and creative scholarship. Marcello is the consummate physician-healer-scholar-investigator. He runs a very large clinic treating thousands of patients with pituitary disorders — likely one of the largest such referral specialty care...
Outstanding Educator Award Carolyn Becker, MD Carolyn B. Becker, MD, is a superb clinical endocrinologist who is widely recognized for her longstanding devotion to mentoring and education, her outstanding clinical acumen, and her exceptional teaching skills. Dr. Becker received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School (HMS), residency training from Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago,...
Fred Conrad Koch Lifetime Achievement Award Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, MD Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, MD, has made paradigm-shifting contributions in endocrine physiology and the role of hormones in disease pathogenesis (focus on gender differences) in cardiovascular disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, and breast cancer. It is hard to imagine the existence of any other individual whose work reflects such staggering...
Richard Bergman, PhD, received the Distinguished Leader in Insulin Resistance Award for his groundbreaking efforts to predict, prevent, treat, and ultimately cure diabetes. Bergman, director of the Sports Spectacular Diabetes and Obesity Wellness and Research Center at Cedars-Sinai and the Alfred Jay Firestein Chair in Diabetes Research, accepted the award Dec. 2 in Los Angeles...
The Washington Post – What’s Changed Since the March for Science? Readers Respond. The Society answered the top-tier newspaper’s call for readers’ thoughts on the March for Science six months after the event, sharing comments from two members and CEO Barbara Byrd Keenan, FASAE, CAE. The Post quoted Secretary-Treasurer Richard S. Legro, MD, in its anniversary...
Anthony Hollenberg, MD, has been appointed chairman of the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and physician-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Recruited as the Weill Chairman, Hollenberg will lead the institutions’ largest clinical and academic department, overseeing 16 divisions and nearly 2,600 physicians and scientists who exemplify excellence...
Endocrine Society members Christos Coutifaris, MD, PhD, and V. Craig Jordan, OBE, PhD, DSc, FMedSci, FAACR, have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). Coutifaris and Jordan are two of the 70 regular members and 10 international members who were announced on October 16 at NAM’s annual meeting. Coutifaris is the Celso Ramon...
Outstanding Innovation Award Barry Komm, PhD Barry Komm, PhD, has been investigating the role of estrogens and SERMs in the reproductive tract since 1982, when he was a post-doctoral fellow with Richard Lyttle at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1985, Dr. Komm moved to the University of Arizona, where he studied the role of...
Outstanding Clinical Practitioner Award Marcello Bronstein, MD, PhD Marcello Bronstein, MD, PhD, is a unique professional physician with a remarkable record of clinical excellence and creative scholarship. Marcello is the consummate physician-healer-scholar-investigator. He runs a very large clinic treating thousands of patients with pituitary disorders — likely one of the largest such referral specialty care...
Outstanding Educator Award Carolyn Becker, MD Carolyn B. Becker, MD, is a superb clinical endocrinologist who is widely recognized for her longstanding devotion to mentoring and education, her outstanding clinical acumen, and her exceptional teaching skills. Dr. Becker received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School (HMS), residency training from Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago,...
Fred Conrad Koch Lifetime Achievement Award Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, MD Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, MD, has made paradigm-shifting contributions in endocrine physiology and the role of hormones in disease pathogenesis (focus on gender differences) in cardiovascular disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, and breast cancer. It is hard to imagine the existence of any other individual whose work reflects such staggering...
Anthony Hollenberg, MD, has been appointed chairman of the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and physician-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Recruited as the Weill Chairman, Hollenberg will lead the institutions’ largest clinical and academic department, overseeing 16 divisions and nearly 2,600 physicians and scientists who exemplify excellence...
