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John Wass, MD, MA, FRCP  Outstanding Leadership in Endocrinology Award John Wass, MD, MA, FRCP, is a clinical researcher and educator at Oxford University in Oxford, England, whose contributions have had a significant effect on patients with pituitary disease. His early observations about the importance of single-surgeon expertise for acromegaly outcomes paved the way many...

Michael W. Schwartz, MD  Roy O. Greep Award for Outstanding Research  Michael W. Schwartz, MD, holds the Robert H. Williams Chair in Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, Wash., where he has been on faculty since 1996.  He’s published over 260 peer-reviewed studies that have shaped our understanding of how the brain regulates energy balance and glucose homeostasis,...

Simon J. Rhodes, PhD  Sidney H. Ingbar Distinguished Service Award Simon J. Rhodes, PhD, was appointed as the provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Fla. in 2019. Over the last 15 years, Rhodes has reached trainees and early-career investigators around the world and given special attention to diversity, equity, and inclusion. ...

Jane E.B. Reusch, MD  Outstanding Mentor Award Jane E.B. Reusch, MD, is a professor of medicine and biochemistry at the University of Colorado Denver and Denver VAMC, and associate director of the Center for Women’s Health Research in Denver, Colo. Her professional mission has been to extend her experience and expertise to train the next generation of diabetes researchers. Reusch has mentored 77 trainees through...

Karel Pacak, MD, PhD, DSc  Outstanding Clinical Investigator Award Karel Pacak, MD, Phd, DSc, is chief of the Section on Medical Neuroendocrinology and head of the Developmental Endocrinology, Metabolism, Genetics and Endocrine Oncology Affinity Group of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the Intramural NIH Research Program in Bethesda, Md. His...