When Georgian endocrinologist Natia Vashakmadze, MD, saw the need for an endocrine organization in her home country, she created one. In an exclusive for Endocrine News, she details the history of the Georgian Association of Endocrinology and Metabolism (GAEM), the importance of partnering with the Endocrine Society to share its Clinical Practice Guidelines, and GAEM’s...
Edwin B. Astwood Award for Outstanding Research in Basic Science Holly A. Ingraham, PhD Ingraham is the Herzstein Endowed Professor in Molecular Physiology at University of California, San Francisco in San Francisco, Calif. As a world leader in hormone signaling, Ingraham has illuminated basic molecular processes controlling endocrine development and physiology, with recent emphasis on...
Vigersky Outstanding Clinical Practitioner Award Zilbermint is an associate professor of clinical medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the chief and director of endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism at the Johns Hopkins Community Physicians Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Md. He is an outstanding clinician, well recognized for his excellent clinical care and...
The Endocrine Society selected Dalal S. Ali, MD, as the recipient of its 2023 C. Wayne Bardin, MD, International Travel Award for her outstanding ENDO abstract and research contributions related to bone disease, calcium, and endocrine disorders in pregnancy. Ali is a clinical fellow in metabolic bone disease at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada,...
The Endocrine Society has selected five recipients for its 2023 Early Investigator Awards. The Early Investigators Awards were established to assist in the development of early career investigators and to recognize their accomplishments in endocrine-related research. The Endocrine Society’s 2023 Early Investigator Award winners are: Kotaro Sasaki, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa....
A two-volume series of books entitled Metabolism & Medicine was published recently that details a scientific approach for not only predicting disease, but for preventing it as well. Written from the perspective of a full-time clinician in collaboration with a world-renowned biophysicist, the author of this tome is Endocrine Society member Brian Fertig, MD, founder and...
Robert Walker Harrison III, MD, passed away on May 3, 2023. Harrison was a native Mississippian, a graduate of Tougaloo College (Class of 1961) and the Northwestern University Medical School (Class of 1966). After medical school, he served in the United States Navy as a commissioned officer, stationed in Newport, R.I. He then completed an...
Anzela Niraula, PhD, of the University of Washington in Seattle, won the Endocrine Society’s 2023 Endocrine Images Art Competition for her image of the microglia mandala. This contest celebrates the beauty of endocrine science, and entries were judged based on aesthetic value and significance to endocrine research. Niraula’s image of the microglia (above) won the...