Meet your Executive Committee
| Eberhard Nieschlag |  |
Institute of Reproductive Medicine Tel: +49 (251) 835 6097 |
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. |
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| Ezio Ghigo |  |
Division of Endocrinology Tel: +390116334317/6334336/6963156 |
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 |
| Philippe Bouchard |  |
Service d’Endocrinologie Tel: +33 1 4928 2409 |
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 Tel: +45 89 492013 |
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. |
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Endocrine Unit Tel: +30 210 3381392 |
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. |
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| Bruno Allolio |
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Med. Klinik u. Poliklinik 1 Tel: 49 931 201 36 109 |
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
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| Clara Alvarez |  |
Department of Physiology Tel: + 34 981 582 658 |
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 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 Tel: +41 21 314 05 99 |
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 Tel: +903524374901-21900 |
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 |  |
Erasmus MC Tel +31 10 703 2862 |
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 Fax: +371 761 4168 |
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. |
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Neuroendocrine Unit Tel: +38 1633 88105 |
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. |
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| Christian Strasburger |  |
Division of Endocrinology Tel: +49 (30) 450 514152 |
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 |  |
Christie Hospital Tel: +44 (0) 161 446 3666 |
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. |