Meet your Executive Committee

 

Eberhard Nieschlag

Institute of Reproductive Medicine
of the University
WHO Collaboration Centre for Research in Male Reproduction
Domagkstraße 11
D-48149 Münster

Tel: +49 (251) 835 6097
Fax: +49 (251) 835 6093 Fax
Email: eberhard.nieschlag@ukmuenster.de

Eberhard (Ebo) Nieschlag is a specialist in internal medicine, endocrinology and andrology. After training at the universities of Bonn and Duesseldorf, research at the MRC Unit for Reproductive Endocrinology in Edinburgh and at the NIH in Bethesda, MD, he became director of the Max-Planck Clinical Research Unit for Reproductive Medicine in Muenster from 1980 to 1988 followed by the directorship of the Institute of Reproductive Medicine at the University of Muenster, Germany.

He has been president of the German Society of Endocrinology, the International Society of Andrology and the European Academy of Andrology. His clinical and research activities concentrate on reproductive endocrinology and andrology, especially treatment of infertility, testosterone substitution, the aging male and hormonal male contraception.

Ezio Ghigo

Division of Endocrinology
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Turin
Corso Dogliotti 14
10126 Turin
Italy

Tel: +390116334317/6334336/6963156
Fax: +390116647421
Email: ezio.ghigo@unito.it

Ezio Ghigo graduated in medicine from the University of Turin, Italy, in 1979 and received his postgraduate qualification in endocrinology and metabolism in 1982. He became Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism in 1999 and has been Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Turin since 2002.

His research interests include the neural control of anterior pituitary function, diagnosis and treatment of GH deficiency in childhood and in adulthood, synthetic GH secretagogues and ghrelin, control of the HPA axis, and the endocrinology
of aging, of obesity and of anorexia nervosa.

Philippe Bouchard

Service d’Endocrinologie
Hôpital Saint Antoine
184 rue du Faubourg Saint Antoine
75012 Paris
France

Tel: +33 1 4928 2409
Fax: +33 1 4928 2069
Email: Philippe.bouchard@sat.ap-hop-paris.fr

Philippe Bouchard is Professor and Chair of the Service d’Endocrinologie and Director of the Laboratory of Reproductive Genetics at Hospital Saint Antoine and the University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.

He is also President of the French Endocrine Society (2005-2007) and a Senior Consultant to the Population Council, New York, USA. In 2001 he was awarded the title Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur and also Doctor Honoris Causa, at the University of Liège, Belgium.

Jens Christiansen

Medical Department M
Aarhus University Hospital
Noerrebrogade 44
DK-8000 Aarhus C
Denmark

Tel: +45 89 492013
Fax: +45 89 492010
Email: jsc@afdm.au.dk

Jens Sandahl Christiansen is Professor of Medicine and Consultant Endocrinologist at Aarhus University Hospital, Kommunehospitalet, Aarhus, Denmark. His research interests focus on endocrinology and diabetes, in particular diabetic nephropathy, glucose monitoring and the clinical and metabolic aspects of GH deficiency.

He is a founding member and the acting Secretary of the Growth Hormone Research Society (GRS), Editor-in-chief of GH & IGF Research and serves on the editorial board of Clinical Endocrinology.

Maria Alevizaki

Maria Alevizaki

Endocrine Unit
Department of Medical Therapeutics
Athens University School of Medicine
Alexandra Hospital 80,
Vassilissis Sofias Avenue
11528 ATHENS
Greece

Tel: +30 210 3381392
Fax: +30 2107 704143
Email: mani@otenet.gr

Maria Alevizaki studied in Athens and completed a PhD degree at the University of London. She works in Athens University School of Medicine as Associate Professor of Endocrinology, Head, Endocrine Unit, Dept Clinical Therapeutics, Alexandra Hospital and Head, Hormone lab, Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Unit, Evgenidion Hospital. Her clinical work involves looking after patients with all the spectrum of endocrine disorders, with special emphasis in autoimmune thyroid disease and thyroid cancer. Her recent research work involves the role of hormonal and metabolic factors in cardiovascular disease. She is interested in the epidemiology of thyroid cancer and the metabolic complications of obesity and subclinical thyroid disease. She has chaired the Thyroid Section of the Hellenic Endocrine Society and the Educational Board of the European Thyroid Association. She is in the editorial board of 3 international journals.

Bruno Allolio

Med. Klinik u. Poliklinik 1
Josef-Schneider Str. 2
97080 Würzburg
Germany

Tel: 49 931 201 36 109
Fax: 49 931 201 36 283
Email: allolio_b@medizin.uni-wuerzburg.de

Bruno Allolio completed his doctor of medicine degree at the University of Cologne, Germany, and remained as a Clinical Associate and Fellow in Endocrinology in the Department of Medicine until his promotion to the position of consultant. In 1988 he received the Schöller-Junkmann award Deutsche Gesellschaft für Endokrinologie, and in 1992 became Professor of Medicine in the Department of Endocrinology at the University of Würzburg, Germany, where he now heads the Department of Endocrinology and Diabetology.

His research interests include the hypophysis, adrenal steroid synthesis and
hypoparathyroidism. He currently serves on the editorial board of the European Journal
of Endocrinology.

Clara Alvarez

Department of Physiology
School of Medicine
University of Santiago de Compostela
15782 Santiago de Compostela
Spain

Tel: + 34 981 582 658
Fax: + 34 981 574 145
Email: fscralvi@usc.es

Clara V Alvarez graduated in Medicine at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Upon completion of her PhD, she continued her training at the Institut für Tumorforschung in Marburg, Germany, and later at the Department of Biological and Technical Research, University of San Raffaele, Milan, Italy. Thereafter she moved back to Spain with appointments as Associate Professor in Physiology at the University of
Vigo and later at the University of Santiago de Compostela.

For the last eight years she has been heading her own research group focused on furthering our understanding of the basic mechanisms involved in pituitary and thyroid cell proliferation/differentiation. She has published articles in top peer reviewed journals and served on several editorial boards.

Rolf Gaillard

Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolism
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois
CH-1011 Lausanne
Switzerland

Tel: +41 21 314 05 99
Fax: +41 21 314 0630
Email: Rolf.Gaillard@chuv.ch

Rolf-Christian Gaillard is full Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lausanne, and Chairman of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland.

He is President of the Section and Board of Endocrinology of the European Union of Medical Specialists and is member of the Executive Board of the European Neuroendocrine Association (ENEA). He is also a member of several international journal editorial boards.

Fahrettin Kelestimur

Erciyes University Medical School
Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Kayseri-Turkey

Tel: +903524374901-21900
Fax:+903524375807
E-mail: fktimur@erciyes.edu.tr

Professor Fahrettin Kelestimur received his doctor of medicine degree in 1979 from the School of Medicine, University of Hacettepe, Ankara, Turkey. He trained in endocrinology at Cerrahpas¸a Medical School, Istanbul, and at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, UK. He is an Executive Committee member of the ENEA.

His research interests include neuroendocrinology, reproductive endocrinology and pituitary medicine. He is the author of over 100 peer reviewed scientific articles.

Aart J van der Lely Aart J van der Lely

Erasmus MC
P.O. Box 2040
3000 CA  Rotterdam
The Netherland

Tel +31 10 703 2862
Fax +31 10 703 3639
k.vanderzwaan@erasmusmc.nl

Aart Jan van der serves as Chief and Professor of Clinical Endocrinology at the Department of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology and Head of the Clinical Research Unit at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is also Scientific Director of the Erasmus Institute of Neuro-endocrinology (ERINE) in Rotterdam. His areas of research are neuro-endocrine disorders, pituitary disease, clinical and basic aspects of the role of gut hormones in metabolism. Dr Van der Lely has published many papers and book chapters and he serves as continental editor of Clinical Endocrinology (Oxford) and on the editorial board of the Journal of Endocrinological Investigation, Clinical Interventions in Aging, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism and Nature Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. He is president of the Dutch Endocrine Society and secretary of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS), section of endocrinology. In that position he is also responsible as secretary for the CME accreditation via UEMS in the field of Endocrinology.

Valdis Pirags

P.Stradins Clinical University Hospital
Centre of Endocrinology
Pilsonu iela 13
Riga
LV-1002 Latvia

Fax: +371 761 4168
Email: pirags@latnet.lv

Valdis Pirags is Professor of Medicine at the University of Latvia. Currently he is the Chairman of the Latvian Association of Endocrinologists and a Council member of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. He received his doctoral degree for research on acute stimulation of protein kinase C-beta by glucose in human platelets.

His main research interests are molecular medicine and the genetics of endocrine diseases. He has successfully organized several medical congresses and postgraduate courses in the Baltic region, including the 10th European Federation of Endocrine Societies Postgraduate Course in Clinical Endocrinology in 2003.

Vera Popovic-Brkic

Vera PopovicBrkic

Neuroendocrine Unit
Institute of Endocrinology
Dr Subotica 13
11000 Belgrade
Serbia

Tel: +38 1633 88105
Fax: + 38 1112 685 357
Email: popver@eunet.yu

Vera Popovic-Brkic ,MD,PhD is professor of  Medicine at Belgrade University School of Medicine and was Head of Postgraduate Studies in Endocrinology at Belgrade University for 4 years. She is also Head of the Neuroendocrine Unit at the Institute of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases in Belgrade,Serbia. Professor Dr. Popovic was a member of the Standing Steering Committee on Congresses of the European Federation of Endocrine Societies (EFES) a member of the Executive Committee of the European Neuroendocrine Association from 1990 to 1998 and currently is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Society of Endocrinology from 2007-2011. She was an organiser of the first Workshop on Pituitary Adenomas in Lisbon in 1993, was part of the program organising committee (POC) for the EFES congress in 2001 held in Torino  and 2003 held in Lyon and is member of the POC for the coming ESE congress Berlin 2008 and was organiser of the 1st European Society of Endocrinology Postgraduate Course in Clinical Endocrinology in 2007. Since 1985 she has been Prinicipal investigator for the Research projects supported by the Ministry of Science Serbia.

Professor Dr Popovic is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physiscians and is a member of numerous other professional societies, including the European Neuroendocrine Association, the Growth Hormone Research Society and the Endocrine Section of the Serbian Medical Association. She is ellected  Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences within the Serbian Medical Association. She has published more than 100 papers  in peer-reviewed journals.She is a  reviewer for Clinical Endocrinology, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, European Journal of Endocrinology, Hormone Metabolic Research etc.  is associate Editor for Hormones ( the International Journal of the Hellenic Endocrine Society) and is memeber of the editorial board  for Expert Review Endocrinology & Metabolism.

Christian Strasburger Christian J. Strasburger

Division of Endocrinology
Dept of Internal Medicine IV
Campus Charité Mitte
Schumannstrasse 20/21
10117 Berlin
Germany

Tel: +49 (30) 450 514152
Fax: +49 (30) 450514952
Email: christian.strasburger@charite.de

Christian J. Strasburger, graduated in Medicine from the University of Lübeck, Germany in 1983 and received training in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology at the Universities of Lübeck and Munich, Germany. Since 2003 he is appointed as Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Endocrinology at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany. His major research interests are pituitary disorders and the structure-function relationship of proteo-hormones. He joins the ESE Executive Committee as an ex-officio member as the Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Endocrinology.

Peter Trainer Peter Trainer

Christie Hospital
Wilmslow Road
Manchester  M20 4BX
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0) 161 446 3666
Fax: +44 (0) 161 4463772
Email: peter.trainer@man.ac.uk

Peter Trainer is Professor of Endocrinology and consultant endocrinologist at the Christie Hospital and the University of Manchester in Manchester, England. Previously, he was a senior lecturer in endocrinology at Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School in London. He received his undergraduate in Edinburgh and his post-graduate training in London and Portland, Oregon.

Professor Trainer is an active leader in the medical community and holds positions of responsibility in the Endocrine Society and the Society for Endocrinology. He has served on the editorial boards of Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Clinical Endocrinology, Treatments in Endocrinology, and GH and IGF Research.   His areas of research include pituitary and adrenal disease, particularly Cushing’s syndrome, and acromegaly.