Endocrine Abstracts

Volume 11

Clinical Endocrinology Trust Lecture

AP Weetman, University of Sheffield Medical School, Sheffield, United Kingdom. Abstract

Tony Weetman is the Sir Arthur Hall Professor of Medicine and Dean of the Medical School at the University of Sheffield, and Consultant Endocrinologist at the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust. After graduating from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1977, he trained with Professor Reg Hall at the Welsh National School of Medicine, Dr Tony Fauci at the Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA and Professor Sir Keith Peters at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London and the University of Cambridge. His main research interests are the immunoregulation and genetics of autoimmune endocrine disorders, especially those involving the thyroid. He is a former editor of Clinical Endocrinology, The British Medical Bulletin and Clinical and Experimental Immunology, as well as serving as an Associate Editor of Endocrine Reviews. He received the Merck Prize of the European Thyroid Association in 2002, and is currently President of the British Thyroid Association and a member of the Executive Committee of the European Thyroid Association.