International experts delve into the latest advances in hormone research and clinical care on the Endocrine Society’s new podcast, which launches today. The Endocrine News podcast’s first two episodes explore efforts to develop a male birth control pill and the risk of novel cancer therapies triggering diabetes and other endocrine complications. Episodes are available to...
What better way for the importance of endocrine science and research to have a place at the table than having an endocrine scientist as the new director of the National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)? NIDDK is seeking an exceptional investigator with a record...
Updated Edition of Endocrine and Metabolic Medical Emergencies Published
A second edition of Endocrine and Metabolic Medical Emergencies: A Clinician’s Guide, which was first published in 2014, was just released in March. Once again, Endocrine Society member Glenn Matfin, MSc, Mb ChB, FACE, FRCP, a consultant physician in acute and general internal medicine, diabetes and endocrinology in the UK National Health Service; and Professor...
Members in the News: Gerald I. Shulman Receives ADA’s Highest Honor
Endocrine Society member Gerald I. Shulman, MD, PhD, is the recipient of the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA’s) 2018 Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement, the ADA’s highest honor. The Banting Medal recognizes significant, long-term contributions to the understanding, treatment, or prevention of diabetes. Shulman will be recognized with this honor during the ADA’s 78th Scientific Sessions, June 22-26,...
Endocrine Society’s Wanda Johnson Named Meeting Professional of the Year
The Endocrine Society’s chief program officer Wanda Johnson won the PCMA Education Foundation’s Visionary Award honoring the Meeting Professional of the Year. A veteran Society employee with more than 20 years’ tenure, Johnson leads the Education, Science, and Professional Development department. Her team is responsible for organizing ENDO, the Society’s annual meeting and expo, as...
Endocrine Society member David D. Thompson, PhD, has been named senior vice president and chief scientific officer at Inozyme Pharma, a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing treatments for rare and debilitating metabolic diseases. Thompson brings to Inozyme more than 30 years of experience designing and leading research and development programs focused on bone disorders and...
Remembering Neena B. Schwartz, PhD: A Lab & Life of Her Making
But you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction – what has that to do with a room of one’s own? … All I could do was offer you an opinion upon one minor point – a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to...
Safer Named First Executive Director at Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery
Joshua Safer, MD, an internationally renowned clinical endocrinologist and authority on transgender medicine, has joined the Mount Sinai Health System as executive director of the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery (CTMS), the first and only center in New York — and one of a few pioneers nationwide — to provide transgender patients with a...