Searchable abstracts of presentations at key conferences in endocrinology

ea0019s1biog | Society for Endocrinology Jubilee Medal Lecture | SFEBES2009

Society for Endocrinology Jubilee Medal Lecture

Wass J

J Wass, Department of Endocrinology, OCDEM, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK AbstractJohn Wass is the Professor of Endocrinology at Oxford University and Head of the Department of Endocrinology at the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Churchill Hospital Oxford, UK. He qualified at Guy’s in 1971 and did his endocrine training at Bart’s. He got his MD from the University of London in 1980....

ea0002sp4biog | Society for Endocrinology Jubilee Medal Lecture | SFE2001

Society for Endocrinology Jubilee Medal Lecture

Besser M

Michael Besser, St Bartholomew's and Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK AbstractProfessor Michael Besser qualified in medicine in 1960 at the Medical School of St Bartholomew's Hospital, and then undertook a number of junior medical posts there and at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and the Royal Brompton Hospital. He started his academic work initially as junior lecturer in therapeutics i...

ea0007s5biog | Clinical Endocrinology Trust Lecture | BES2004

Clinical Endocrinology Trust Lecture

Grossman AB

Ashley Grossman, Department of Endocrinology, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK AbstractAshley Grossman initially graduated with a BA in Psychology and Social Anthropology from the University of London, then entered University College Hospital Medical School in London where he graduated with an MBBS, and with a BSc in Neuroscience. He joined the Department of Endocrinology at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in 1978, ...

ea0063eje1biog | The European Journal of Endocrinology Prize Lecture | ECE2019

EJE Award 2019 – Biography

Mirjam Christ-Crain is full Professor of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the University of Basel and the University Hospital of Basel, Switzerland. She studied medicine in Basel and Vienna and did her MD in the year 2000 at the University of Basel and completed her PhD degree in 2007 at the University of London followed by her habilitation at the University of Basel in 2007. From 2009 to 2015 she had a resea...

ea0040lb20 | The bright and dark side of transthyretin, a thyroxine plasma transporter | ESEBEC2016

L20 – Biography

Maria João Mascarenhas Saraiva received a BSc in Biology from the University of Porto, Portugal, in 1976, and an MSc in Biochemistry from the University of London, in 1978. Between 1980 and 1984, she did a PhD in biochemistry at the University of Porto, and qualified as Professor of Biochemistry in the University of Porto in 1991. She worked for different periods as a Visiting Scientist at the ...

ea0038pl1biog | Society for Endocrinology Starling Medal Lecture | SFEBES2015

Society for Endocrinology Starling Medal Lecture

Semple Robert

Robert Semple is a Reader in Endocrinology and Metabolism and Honorary Consultant Endocrinologist at the University of Cambridge, UK. He read Biochemistry and then Medicine at the University of Cambridge before internal medical posts in London. He returned to Cambridge for specialist training in Diabetes and Endocrinology, interrupted by doctoral studies with Prof. Sir Stephen O’Rahilly, focussing on transcriptio...

ea0012s3biog | Society for Endocrinology Medal Lecture | SFE2006

Society for Endocrinology Medal Lecture

Costagliola S

VKK Chatterjee, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom AbstractKrishna Chatterjee graduated from Cambridge and completed his clinical training in Oxford. He first trained in endocrinology at Hammersmith Hospital, London and subsequently undertook research in the Thyroid Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. In 1990, he returned to Cambridge as a Wellcome Senior Clinical Res...

ea0081p212 | Thyroid | ECE2022

Identifying the use of clinical and radiological parameters to assess moderate-severe Graves’ Orbitopathy − a multi-centre analysis of the characteristics of patients with Graves’ Orbitopathy

George Nicole , Lee Vickie , Feeney Claire , Bhatia Kunwar , Ali Amina

Background: Early diagnosis and surveillance of Graves’ Orbitopathy (GO) is essential to prevent severe, sight-threatening complications and long-term disability; therefore, it is highly desirable to identify risk factors and early predictors of severe disease. GO is clinically assessed using the Clinical Activity Score (CAS) and the EUGOGO Severity Scale (ESS), which are subjective, qualitative tests that are used to evaluate the activity and severity at the anterior orb...

ea0050p220 | Diabetes and Cardiovascular | SFEBES2017

The diabetologist as a medical columnist: a 7-year experience

Adesina Olubiyi

Background: The Medical columnist has not always been welcomed by the Medical Community.The Lancet, in its August 30, 1873 editorial had pointed out with regrets that a weekly periodical, the English Mechanic and World of Science had inaugurated a medical column edited by a member of the London medical establishment. The editorial had concluded that “we cannot but regard such conduct as an infraction of the etiquette of the profession, and hardly worthy of a Fell...

ea0050p220 | Diabetes and Cardiovascular | SFEBES2017

The diabetologist as a medical columnist: a 7-year experience

Adesina Olubiyi

Background: The Medical columnist has not always been welcomed by the Medical Community.The Lancet, in its August 30, 1873 editorial had pointed out with regrets that a weekly periodical, the English Mechanic and World of Science had inaugurated a medical column edited by a member of the London medical establishment. The editorial had concluded that “we cannot but regard such conduct as an infraction of the etiquette of the profession, and hardly worthy of a Fell...