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Sidney H. Ingbar Award for Distinguished Service Leonard Wartofsky, MD, MACP Leonard “Len” Wartofsky, MD, MACP, has been a member of the Endocrine Society since 1973, and his record of service to this organization is truly impressive. He has been a member of numerous committees including the Committee on Education (1977–1981), Program Committee (1980–1982), Congressional...

Richard E. Weitzman Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award Gregory Steinberg, PhD Gregory Steinberg’s research has studied the fundamental mechanism by which energy sensing, endocrine factors, and commonly used medications regulate metabolism. During his PhD, he studied adipocyte-muscle communication and the development of skeletal muscle leptin resistance in obesity. His postdoctoral research extended these findings by...

2018 Outstanding Scholarly Physician Award Shlomo Melmed, MD Shlomo Melmed, MD, compellingly impacts the practice of pituitary medicine by clinical leadership, educational initiatives, and major translational discoveries in pathophysiology and therapy of pituitary disease. He has elucidated mechanisms for paracrine pituitary growth factor regulation and pituitary tumorigenesis and identified novel molecules for pituitary tumor therapy....

Outstanding Clinical Investigator Award Christos Mantzoros, MD, DSc Christos Mantzoros, MD, DSC, an extraordinarily productive investigator, is currently the chief of the Nutrition Unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and chief of the Endocrine Section at the VA Boston Healthcare System. Dr. Mantzoros serves as a full professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School...