Endocrine Society member William T. Cefalu, MD, has been appointed chief scientific & medical officer (CSMO) of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and will formally begin serving on Feb. 20, 2017. He replaces another Society member, Robert E. Ratner, MD, who retired on Dec. 31, 2016, after serving as CSMO for nearly five years. Since...
Outstanding Public Service Award Larry D. Bowers, PhD Throughout his distinguished career, Larry D. Bowers, PhD, has made numerous outstanding contributions to the fight against abuse of performance-enhancing anabolic steroids and other hormones in sport. Dr. Bowers served as the laboratory director for the then International Olympic Committee-accredited laboratory at Indiana University from 1992 to...
Outstanding Scholarly Physician Award Rebecca S. Bahn, MD, FRCPI Rebecca S. Bahn, MD, professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine is the winner of the Endocrine Society’s Outstanding Scholarly Physician Award for 2017. This award recognizes outstanding contributions to the practice of clinical endocrinology in an academic setting. Dr. Bahn is internationally...
Alan Dalkin reflects on how his involvement in last year’s centennial celebration heightened his passion for the Society’s work and made him enthusiastic about its future. Participating in our Society’s Centennial Celebration has been a truly rewarding experience for me. Working with the talented authors of Special Edition ESAP: Historical Perspectives for Today’s Clinician (past...European Commission Proposal Leaves Public Exposed to Harmful EDCs
The Endocrine Society expressed disappointment today in the European Commission’s revised proposal on defining and identifying endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), citing unnecessarily narrow criteria for identifying EDCs that will make it nearly impossible for scientists to meet the unrealistically high burden of proof and protect the public from dangerous chemicals. A new provision in the revised...
The Endocrine Society today praised Eli Lilly and Company’s announcement that it will offer discounted prices on insulin products purchased through certain online platforms as a step toward addressing increasing insulin prices. The Society is concerned rising insulin prices have created a barrier that makes it challenging for people with diabetes who are insulin-dependent to...
The Endocrine Society leadership is saddened to announce that valued friend and colleague P. Michael Conn, PhD, MS, died on November 26, 2016. Conn served as president of the Endocrine Society from June 1996 to June 1997. Conn was a pioneer in discovering the signaling mechanisms used by the GnRH receptor and, in recent years,...Members in the News: Laura Vandenberg Honored by the Cornell Douglas Foundation
Laura N. Vandenberg, PhD, an assistant professor of environmental health sciences at UMass Amherst’s School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS) in Amherst, Mass., has been named one of the Cornell Douglas Foundation’s 2016 Jean and Leslie Douglas Pearl Award winners for her “outstanding leadership in conducting critical research to identify and address the...
