On January 8, incoming Endocrine Society Secretary Treasurer Richard S. Legro, MD, paid a visit to the Society’s Washington, D.C. headquarters for a “lunch and learn” session with Society staff. Legro, professor of obstetrics and gynecology and public health sciences at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pa., spoke to the staff about a...
Cynthia Stuenkel, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego and chair of the Endocrine Society’s recently published clinical practice guideline, Treatment of Symptoms of the Menopause, presented at a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) workshop on November 10 on potential changes to package labels for vaginal estrogen therapies. The North...
The Society launched its new Dimensions in Diabetes program in Chennai, India on Saturday November 20 and Sunday November 21 as part of Diabetes Awareness month activities. Eight Society members contributed to this curriculum that covered the basics of diabetes management like diet, nutrition, and motivational interviewing, managing special patient populations, including pregnant patients and...
The Endocrine Society’s second scientific statement on endocrine-disrupting chemicals was highlighted in an opinion piece written by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof which was published Saturday, November 28. Kristoff quoted the Society’s position that links endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) to diabetes and obesity, which is one of the many citations in the statement that was...
Members of the Endocrine Society have elected five new Officers and Council members to lead the world’s oldest, largest and most active organization devoted to research on hormones and the clinical practice of endocrinology. The new Officers and Council members are: Lynnette K. Nieman, MD: President-Elect Howard B. A. Baum, MD: Vice President, Physician-in-Practice Daniel...
Anders Juul, MD, PhD, a leading researcher of the effects of endocrine-disrupting hormones (EDCs) on child development, received a prestigious ESPE Research Award from the European Society of Paediatric Endocrinology today during the 54th Annual ESPE conference in Barcelona. Juul is being recognized for his scientific leadership in the field of pediatric endocrinology. The award is for...
