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Society Past-President Andrea Dunaif Named Division Chief at Mount Sinai

lugaif Endocrine Society past-president, Andrea Dunaif, MD, has been appointed the new Chief for the Hilda and J. Lester Gabrilove Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Bone Disease for the Mount Sinai Health System. She replaces Society member Derek Leroith, MD, PhD, who served as interim chief for the last year. Dunaif, who served as the Endocrine...
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Ruth S. Weinstock Named ADA 2017 Outstanding Diabetes Clinician

Endocrine Society member Ruth S. Weinstock, MD, PhD, has been selected to receive the American Diabetes Association 2017 Outstanding Physician Clinician in Diabetes Award. Presented annually, the award honors meritorious contributions to diabetes clinical practice. Weinstock will be recognized with this honor during the Association’s 77th Scientific Sessions, June 9-13, 2017, in San Diego.   Weinstock is...
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Gokhan Hotamisligil, MD, PhD, Named to Advisory Board

hotamisligil2 Gokhan Hotamisligil, MD, PhD, from the Harvard School of Public Health, has been named one of six members of the newly formed Scientific Advisory Board for biomedical data analysis company, Seven Bridges. This new advisory board will formalize relationships with leading global experts in genomic medicine, bioinformatics, and cancer research. The board members will also...
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Why Endocrinology: The Logical Choice

Hamvik As a child, when someone asked “What do you want to be when you grow up?” my answers included gardener, chef, and baker, but never doctor. Later, I wanted to see the world and work as a diplomat. This led me to move from my native Norway to France for high school, where I first...
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Endocrine Society Members Share 2017 Harrington Prize

The fourth annual Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine has been jointly awarded to Endocrine Society members Daniel J. Drucker, MD, and Joel F. Habener, MD, for their discovery of incretin hormones and for the translation of these findings into transformative therapies for major metabolic diseases such as diabetes. They share the award with Jens...
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Members in the News: Sen Receives Innovation Grant

Aritro Sen, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y., is one of 11 recipients of a 2016 – 2017 Ferring Innovation Grant. Sen was awarded the grant based on his research paper, “Regulation of AMH expression by GDF9+BMP15 and FSH during follicular development as a novel therapeutic...
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Members in the News: Abel Receives Appointments to NHLBI, ACCA

Abel, Evan Dale - Approved 2011_JPG Dale Abel, MD, PhD, was recently appointed to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s (NHLBI) Advisory Council of the National Institutes of Health as well as elected to the American Clinical and Climatological Association (ACCA). Abel, director of the Fraternal Order of Eagles Research Center, director of the Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism in...