On October 3, the Endocrine Society announced 22 new recipients for its Early Investigators Awards. The Early Investigators Awards provide monetary support to assist in the development of early career investigators and recognition of their accomplishments in areas of general endocrinology. Recipients will receive a monetary award, one-year complimentary membership to the Society, one-year complimentary...
In June, Endocrine Society past-president Leonard Wartofsky, MD, MACP, professor of medicine at Georgetown University and editor-in-chief of Endocrine Reviews, was awarded doctorate honoris causa from both the University of Poznan in Poland and the University of Athens in Greece. “I think it’s a tremendous honor,” Wartofsky says. “It’s not something you really expect in...
The Endocrine Society today announced it has selected 14 leaders in the endocrinology field as winners of its prestigious 2018 Laureate Awards. These professionals are responsible for research breakthroughs that lead to the cures of tomorrow and for providing the gold standard of care for patients with hundreds of conditions and diseases including diabetes, thyroid...
Endocrine Society past-president Teresa K. Woodruff, PhD, has been named the new dean of The Graduate School and associate provost for graduate education at Northwestern University. Woodruff, the Thomas J. Watkins Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and director of the Women’s Health Research Institute at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, is an internationally recognized...
Zvi Laron, MD, PhD, was honored by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in April with the title of Honoris Causa Professor for his outstanding contribution to medical science as well as his remarkable academic achievements. Laron received the 2001 Laureate Award for Outstanding Clinical Research Investigator. Head of the Endocrinology & Diabetes Research Unit, Schneider...
Thomas Landefeld, PhD, professor of biology at California State University, Dominguez Hills, was named the university’s Advisor of the Year for 2017. Landefeld was presented the award at the CSUDH President’s Leadership and Service Awards ceremony earlier this spring. In nominating him, students pointed to his years of dedication in fostering diversity in health fields...
John Paul Bilezikian, PhD, MD, was honored by Pisa University in Italy with a doctorate honoris causa in clinical and translational science. Bilezikian, chief of the Division of Endocrinology and director of Metabolic Bone Diseases Program at Columbia University in New York, is a past editor-in-chief of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (2000...
Endocrine Society member Willard Dere, MD, professor of internal medicine, executive director of Personalized Health, and co-director of the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center, has been appointed to the Seres Therapeutics board of directors. Dere brings to Seres more than two decades of scientific, clinical, and...
In June, Endocrine Society past-president Leonard Wartofsky, MD, MACP, professor of medicine at Georgetown University and editor-in-chief of Endocrine Reviews, was awarded doctorate honoris causa from both the University of Poznan in Poland and the University of Athens in Greece. “I think it’s a tremendous honor,” Wartofsky says. “It’s not something you really expect in...
Endocrine Society past-president Teresa K. Woodruff, PhD, has been named the new dean of The Graduate School and associate provost for graduate education at Northwestern University. Woodruff, the Thomas J. Watkins Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and director of the Women’s Health Research Institute at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, is an internationally recognized...
John Paul Bilezikian, PhD, MD, was honored by Pisa University in Italy with a doctorate honoris causa in clinical and translational science. Bilezikian, chief of the Division of Endocrinology and director of Metabolic Bone Diseases Program at Columbia University in New York, is a past editor-in-chief of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (2000...
