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...
Endocrine Society in the News: The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and More
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 Takes on New Roles at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
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...
Endocrine Society Announces Early Investigators Award Winners
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...
Teresa Woodruff Named Dean of Northwestern University’s Graduate School
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...
