James W. Findling, MD Outstanding Clinical Practitioner Award James (Jay) Findling has been in clinical endocrinology practice in Milwaukee, Wisc., for over t30 years. After graduating from the University of Notre Dame and Northwestern University Medical School, he did his internal medicine training at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and his endocrinology fellowship at...
Kenneth Burman, MD Outstanding Educator Award Kenneth Burman is the chief of endocrinology at Medstar Washington Hospital Center (MWHC) and the director of the Integrated Endocrine Training Program at Medstar Georgetown University/MWHC. He has educated more than 140 endocrinologists. He has a special passion for endocrinology. Passion drives the human spirit, which in turn results...
Fred Conrad Koch Lifetime Achievement Award Edward Brown is one of the world’s leading biomedical scientists. His brilliant career exemplifies what all investigators aspire to, but rarely achieve. The elegance of his logic and the innovative approaches he applied in his quest to delineate calcium-induced parathyroid cell signaling, clone the calcium-sensing receptor (CaSR) cDNA, and...
Outstanding Clinical Investigator Award Wiebke Arlt is the William Withering Professor of Medicine at the University of Birmingham, UK, and an outstanding clinician scientist. Trained by Bruno Allolio, Walter Miller, and myself, she has made several seminal contributions to the field of endocrinology. Firstly, she identified the importance of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) in women and in a...
It is with great sadness that we learned that Professor Paul Kelly passed away on Wednesday November 28, 2018. Paul was an internationally well-known endocrinologist. After receiving his PhD in endocrinology and reproductive physiology from the University of Wisconsin in 1972, Paul went to Canada to do his post-doctoral training in the laboratories of the...
Frank Talamantes, PhD, professor emeritus of endocrinology at UC Santa Cruz, died October 8 in El Paso, Texas, at the age of 75. He received his BA in biology from the University of St. Thomas in Houston, his MA in biology from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, and his PhD in endocrinology from...
Endocrine Society member Mary M. Lee, MD, has been appointed enterprise chief scientific officer for Nemours Children’s Health System, a multi-state pediatric health system. Lee, who has served Nemours as an Enterprise Vice President and Physician-in-Chief of Delaware Valley Operations since April, is being tapped in this new role to oversee and lead the organization’s...
This past Saturday, November 17, the Endocrine Society held its second iteration of EndoCares: DC, its global outreach program for healthcare providers, patients, and the general public. This year, EndoCares followed a health fair format focused on diabetes awareness, and it was held simultaneously at the Mexican and Peruvian consulates, a first for the program...
James W. Findling, MD Outstanding Clinical Practitioner Award James (Jay) Findling has been in clinical endocrinology practice in Milwaukee, Wisc., for over t30 years. After graduating from the University of Notre Dame and Northwestern University Medical School, he did his internal medicine training at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and his endocrinology fellowship at...
Kenneth Burman, MD Outstanding Educator Award Kenneth Burman is the chief of endocrinology at Medstar Washington Hospital Center (MWHC) and the director of the Integrated Endocrine Training Program at Medstar Georgetown University/MWHC. He has educated more than 140 endocrinologists. He has a special passion for endocrinology. Passion drives the human spirit, which in turn results...
Fred Conrad Koch Lifetime Achievement Award Edward Brown is one of the world’s leading biomedical scientists. His brilliant career exemplifies what all investigators aspire to, but rarely achieve. The elegance of his logic and the innovative approaches he applied in his quest to delineate calcium-induced parathyroid cell signaling, clone the calcium-sensing receptor (CaSR) cDNA, and...
Outstanding Clinical Investigator Award Wiebke Arlt is the William Withering Professor of Medicine at the University of Birmingham, UK, and an outstanding clinician scientist. Trained by Bruno Allolio, Walter Miller, and myself, she has made several seminal contributions to the field of endocrinology. Firstly, she identified the importance of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) in women and in a...
It is with great sadness that we learned that Professor Paul Kelly passed away on Wednesday November 28, 2018. Paul was an internationally well-known endocrinologist. After receiving his PhD in endocrinology and reproductive physiology from the University of Wisconsin in 1972, Paul went to Canada to do his post-doctoral training in the laboratories of the...
Endocrine Society member Mary M. Lee, MD, has been appointed enterprise chief scientific officer for Nemours Children’s Health System, a multi-state pediatric health system. Lee, who has served Nemours as an Enterprise Vice President and Physician-in-Chief of Delaware Valley Operations since April, is being tapped in this new role to oversee and lead the organization’s...
