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Meet the 2020 Laureates: R. Michael Tuttle, MD

michaelTuttle PIC 2017 Michael Tuttle, MD Outstanding Scholarly Physician Award Michael Tuttle, MD, is professor of medicine, Cornell University and clinical director of the Endocrine Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital. He is a leading clinician-investigator in the field of thyroid cancer and his work has shifted the paradigm in differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) treatment. Dr. Tuttle is a...
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Meet the 2020 Laureates: Peter A. Singer, MD

Singer, Peter_02 (2).jpg Peter A. Singer, MD Vigersky Outstanding Clinical Practitioner Award Peter A. Singer, MD, has had a great impact through the years in improving the care of people with endocrine diseases, by his outstanding role in supporting community physicians and his model as a teacher and mentor of medical students, house officers, and endocrine fellows. In...
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Meet the 2020 Laureates: Roy Shires, MBBCh, PhD, FRCP

Prof Shires Roy Shires, MBBCh, PhD, FRCP International Excellence in Endocrinology Award Roy Shires is a professor of medicine at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He became the first head of the Division of Endocrinology at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, the world’s third largest hospital and the only tertiary medical facility serving the largely impoverished and...
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Meet the 2020 Laureates: Richard J. Santen, MD

santen Richard J. Santen, MD Fred Conrad Koch Lifetime Achievement Award Richard J. Santen, MD, is professor of medicine at the University of Virginia and a former president of the Endocrine Society. His impressive clinical and research career has focused on both prostate and breast cancer. His pioneering work led to the development of first, second,...
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Meet the 2020 Laureates: Alvin C. Powers, MD

Al.Powers Alvin C. Powers, MD Outstanding Educator Award Alvin C. Powers, director of the Vanderbilt Diabetes Center, has made special contributions to education as director of the Vanderbilt Medical Student Research Training Program and director of the NIDDK Medical Student Research Program (DK-MSRP). The former is a NIH-supported program enabling medical students from throughout the nation...
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Endocrine Society Cancels ENDO 2020 Amid COVID-19 Concerns

For the first time since World War II, the Endocrine Society has cancelled its annual conference, ENDO 2020, following dire reports regarding COVID-19 from the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and local health authorities in San Francisco, the site of the conference. “We have been clear all along that...
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Meet the 2020 Laureates: Christopher B. Newgard, PhD

Newgard.Christopher Christopher B. Newgard, PhD Outstanding Innovation Award Christopher B. Newgard’s professional career has been devoted to metabolic research. Within the Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center and Duke Molecular Physiology Institute (DMPI) where he is the director, he has developed a suite of comprehensive molecular profiling platforms across the “omics” sciences to support the...
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Meet the 2020 Laureates: Donald P. McDonnell, PhD

043614_mcdonnell001 Donald P. McDonnell, PhD Gerald D. Aurbach Award for Outstanding Translational Research Donald P. McDonnell challenged longstanding models of nuclear receptor (NR) endocrine pharmacology which had held that an agonist was a “switch” that induced activating conformational changes in a NR, while antagonists functioned as competitive inhibitors that would freeze receptors in an inactive (apo)...