In June, legislation to reauthorize the Special Diabetes Program (SDP) advanced in Congress and the Endocrine Society played a leading role in advocating for the legislation. Introduced in both the House and Senate, this legislation would reauthorize both components of the program through December 2025. The House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously approved a House...
The American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates unanimously passed a resolution sponsored by the Endocrine Society to protect access to evidence-based gender-affirming care for transgender and gender-diverse individuals. The Endocrine Society partnered with the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE), the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), and the Medical Student Section of the...
The Endocrine Society is pleased to welcome its president for 2023 – 2024, Stephen Hammes, MD, PhD, who took office during ENDO 2023 in Chicago. Hammes is the Louis S. Wolk Distinguished Professor of Medicine, chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and executive vice-chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of...
Tasnim Ahsan, MRCP, FRCP, knows how to shatter more than a few glass ceilings. Tasnim Ahsan, MRCP, FRCP, recipient of the Endocrine Society’s 2023 International Excellence in Endocrinology Laureate Award, is also the founder of the Pakistan Endocrine Society. She talks to Endocrine News about treating transgender patients in a challenging environment, launching a nationwide...
Honored with the Endocrine Society’s 2023 Outstanding Mentor Laureate Award, William Rainey, PhD, talks to Endocrine News about his mentoring philosophy, how he’s expanding adrenal research throughout academia, and how his own experiences as a mentee have informed his role as a mentor. It starts with his belief that mentorship extends beyond the laboratory doors....
A novel approach to treating hypothyroidism shifts the focus from TSH levels. Rudolf Hoermann, MD, PhD, a consulting endocrinologist based in Australia, talks to Endocrine News about a new approach to treating patients with hypothyroidism. Hoermann counters that regulating the HPT axis from a T-3-inclusive perspective as well as considering other factors aside from TSH...
In otherwise healthy short children, quality of life and self-esteem are associated with coping skills and how supported they feel, not the degree of their short stature, according to a study recently published in The Journal of Pediatrics. Researchers led by Adda Grimberg, MD, a pediatric endocrinologist and Scientific Director of the Growth Center at Children’s...
The Endocrine Society’s Journal of the Endocrine Society (JES) received its first Impact Factor score in 2022, while the Society’s other journals maintained high rankings on the prestigious measure of scholarly publishing. The 2022 Impact Factors were released June 28 by Journal Citation Reports, an annual publication of Clarivate Analytics. JES, which launched in 2017,...