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...Winners Announced for the Endocrine Society’s 2024 Endocrine Images Art Competition
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...
Endocrine Society, ESE Publish Joint Guideline on Glucocorticoid-Induced Adrenal Insufficiency
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...
The Endocrine Society has appointed Zane B. Andrews, PhD, of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, as editor-in-chief of its flagship basic science journal, Endocrinology. Andrews has been deputy editor of the journal since 2020 and will be taking on this role as previous editor-in-chief Carol Lange, PhD, of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minn.,...Endocrine Society Formalizes Partnership with the Korean Endocrine Society
On April 13, the Endocrine Society and the Korean Endocrine Society (KES) officially entered into a memorandum of Understanding (MOU) during the 12th Seoul International Congress of Endocrinology and Metabolism (SICEM) in conjunction with the 43rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the KES, which took place in Seoul, South Korea, April 11 – 13, 2024. This...
