On November 2, the Endocrine Society was awarded the Collaboration Award on behalf of Diana Bianchi, MD, director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) for its participation as a partner in PregSource, a crowdsourcing research project that aims to improve knowledge of pregnancy by collecting information directly...
The Washington Post – What’s Changed Since the March for Science? Readers Respond. The Society answered the top-tier newspaper’s call for readers’ thoughts on the March for Science six months after the event, sharing comments from two members and CEO Barbara Byrd Keenan, FASAE, CAE. The Post quoted Secretary-Treasurer Richard S. Legro, MD, in its anniversary...
The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) and the Endocrine Society have teamed up to address the high cost of insulin and the associated burdens placed on the millions of Americans who rely on costly daily insulin injections. Together AACE and the Endocrine Society introduced a resolution this week at the 2017 Interim Meeting of...
The Society hosted a Diabetes Awareness Month Twitter chat on Nov. 9 to raise awareness of the dangers of hypoglycemia. Twitter users saw the event hashtag, #EndoChat, an estimated 1.2 million times in the days leading up to the discussion and during the chat itself, according to the social media analytics firm Symplur. The event...
The Endocrine Society, George Washington University, and the Consulate General of Peru are partnering to educate the local expatriate and immigrant communities about diabetes. As part of Diabetes Awareness Month, the organizations will hold an outreach event and health fair at the Consular office at 1225 23rd St., NW, on November 18. The event will...
The Endocrine Society has hired Robert W. Lash, MD — an endocrinologist with more than 25 years of experience in the field — to serve as its first Chief Professional & Clinical Affairs Officer. Lash will fill a new role on the Society’s leadership team. As the Society embarks on its second century, Lash will...
The Endocrine Society’s oldest peer-reviewed journal will get a new editor-in-chief in January. Woodruff hopes to make Endocrinology a vital resource for all science “within and beyond the borders of endocrinology.” Endocrine Society past-president Teresa Woodruff, PhD, of Northwestern University in Chicago, has had quite the past couple of months. First, she was named dean...
Last week President Trump made a number of announcements related to health insurance policy. First, he signed an executive order that seeks to increase competition by facilitating access to association health plans, short-term limited duration insurance products, and health reimbursement arrangements. Nothing is changing immediately; rather, the president has directed several government agencies to draft...