Instead of viewing being female, Latina, and LGBTQ+ as a hindrance in the realm of surgery, Julie Ann Sosa, MD, MA, FACS, instead proudly asserts that they are actually “superpowers.” And she is determined to harness those powers so that future generations will have an easier path. Pursuing a career in medicine is no easy...
On June 3, during ENDO 2024 in Boston, “Vitamin D for the Prevention of Disease: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline” was officially released. While this new guideline suggests supplements might benefit specific populations and questions the need for testing, it also suggests that more research is needed to determine optimal levels for specific health...
Guideline recommends vitamin D higher than the recommended daily allowance for children, pregnant people, adults over 75 and adults with prediabetes Healthy adults under the age of 75 are unlikely to benefit from taking more than the daily intake of vitamin D recommended by the Institutes of Medicine (IOM) and do not require testing for...
In honor of National Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Endocrine News reached out to several of our U.S.-based Asian members to get their thoughts on their careers, accomplishments, goals, and even their challenges, as well as advice they have for any young Asian American endocrinologists just beginning their careers. Since 2009, when President...
The Endocrine Society is delighted to announce that Lily Ng, PhD, and Douglas Forrest, PhD, have won the Society’s 2024 Endocrine Images Art Competition for their image of the astrocyte cell that expresses type 2 deiodinase. Now in its third year, the Art Competition celebrates the beauty of endocrine science as seen through the lens...
To kick off a new guideline-writing partnership between the Endocrine Society and the European Society of Endocrinology (ESE), a new guideline on glucocorticoid-induced adrenal insufficiency has just been released. The joint guideline, which was published in the Societies’ respective journals, is designed to help clinicians manage patients who have, or are at risk of developing,...
Endocrine Society past-president Henry M. Kronenberg, MD, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), which recognizes achievement in science and provides science, engineering, and health policy advice to the federal government and other organizations. Kronenberg, who served as Endocrine Society president from 2016 to 2017, has been chief of the Endocrine Unit...
Evan Dale Abel, former Rhodes Scholar, and current chair of the UCLA Department of Medicine, stands among the few deserving of the Koch Award, the highest honor of the Endocrine Society. Abel is an accomplished investigator in laboratory research focused on the complications of diabetes mellitus and their prevention. He has trained and inspired numerous...
Instead of viewing being female, Latina, and LGBTQ+ as a hindrance in the realm of surgery, Julie Ann Sosa, MD, MA, FACS, instead proudly asserts that they are actually “superpowers.” And she is determined to harness those powers so that future generations will have an easier path. Pursuing a career in medicine is no easy...
In honor of National Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Endocrine News reached out to several of our U.S.-based Asian members to get their thoughts on their careers, accomplishments, goals, and even their challenges, as well as advice they have for any young Asian American endocrinologists just beginning their careers. Since 2009, when President...
Endocrine Society past-president Henry M. Kronenberg, MD, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), which recognizes achievement in science and provides science, engineering, and health policy advice to the federal government and other organizations. Kronenberg, who served as Endocrine Society president from 2016 to 2017, has been chief of the Endocrine Unit...
Evan Dale Abel, former Rhodes Scholar, and current chair of the UCLA Department of Medicine, stands among the few deserving of the Koch Award, the highest honor of the Endocrine Society. Abel is an accomplished investigator in laboratory research focused on the complications of diabetes mellitus and their prevention. He has trained and inspired numerous...
