Endocrine Abstracts

Volume 5

Clinical Endocrinology Trust Lecture

Steve Shalet, Dept of Endocrinology, Christie Hospital, Manchester, UK Abstract

After completing a BSc in Physiology at London University in 1966, I qualified in medicine at the Royal London Hospital in 1969. Junior hospital medical training posts in London and Bristol were followed by an appointment as Research Fellow in Endocrinology at the Christie Hospital, Manchester in 1974.

I obtained my Consultant post in Endocrinology at the Christie Hospital in 1978 and became a Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology) at the University of Manchester in 1994.

I have extensive research interests in the late endocrine effects following treatment of cancer, pituitary disorders and, in particular, abnormalities of growth hormone secretion.

Administratively I have served as President of the Endocrine Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, as a member of the Council of the European Society of Paediatric Endocrinology, Chairman of the Specialist Training Committee in Diabetes and Endocrinology for the North West Region and as a member of the Clinical Practice Committee of the Society for Endocrinology (UK). Currently I am Chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee of the European Society of Pediatric Endocrinology, co-editor of the first edition of the Oxford Textbook of Endocrinology and serve on the Council of the Society for Endocrinology and the SAC in Endocrinology and Diabetes. Outside interests include sport, music, literature and theatre.