Meet your Executive Committee
| Eberhard Nieschlag |  |
Institute of Reproductive Medicine Tel: +49 (251) 835 6099 |
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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| Paolo Beck Peccoz |  |
Paolo Beck-Peccoz Tel: +39 02 50320606 |
Paolo Beck-Peccoz graduated (MD) from the University of Turin and later specialised in endocrinology and Internal medicine. He joined the University of Milan as an Intern and rose to the position of Director, 2nd school of specialisation in Endocrinology. He was the Editor-in Chief of the European Journal of Endocrinology from 1998-2007. He is on the Editorial Boards of various journals including Thyroid (1994 to present) and PLOS Medicine (2004 to present). He has been Secretary, Italian Society of Endocrinology and has been a member of its Executive Committee. He has also held memberships of the Executive memberships of the EFES and the European thyroid Association. He has been on the Programme organising committees (POC) of the International Congress of Endocrinology (Sydney 2000) and member of the POC of the last 4 European Congresses of Endocrinology. He has been an Invited speaker and has also chaired various National and International Meetings. He is also the winner of the ETA Merck Prize 2006. He has collaborated internationally with various research institutions all over the world. He has published more than 400 papers in various journals and books. |
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Professor Barbara Jarzab Tel: +48322789339 |
Barbara Jarzab was born in 1952. She is an endocrinologist and nuclear medicine specialist, Head of Nuclear Medicine and Endocrine Oncology Department at Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland; a comprehensive cancer center and research institute that takes care for Silesian patients, an industrial part of Poland with 5 million inhabitants. Professor Jarzab’s areas of research involvement are functional genomics of endocrine tumours with focus on gene expression profiling of thyroid cancer and genetic predisposition to endocrine disease (thyroid cancer, pheochromocytomas, Graves disease). Clinical activity focuses on radioiodine therapy of differentiated thyroid cancer and benign thyroid disease, radiopeptide imaging and therapy of neuroendocrine tumors, new methods of diagnosis and therapy of progressive endocrine gland cancer (thyroid ca, parathyroid ca, adrenal ca). In the past she was involved in experimental neurendocrinology, focusing on sexual brain differentiation. She has published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and serves as a reviewer for international journals e.g. Eur J Endocrinol, End Rel Cancer, Mol Cell Endocrinol, Exp Clin Endocrinol Diab. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of a new thyroid related journal, Thyroid Research. In years 2006-2009 she was a member of the Executive Committee of European Thyroid Association. In 2008 she was appointed Secretary of the European Thyroid Association Cancer Network. She is the President of Polish Group of Endocrine Tumors. |
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| Aart J van der Lely |  |
Erasmus MC Tel +31 10 703 2862 |
Aart Jan van der Lely 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. |
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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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| Wiebke Arlt |  |
Wiebke Arlt – Tel: +44 121 4158716 |
Wiebke Arlt is 43 years of age and fell for Endocrinology as a medical student, followed by clinical and scientific training in Germany and the USA. At present, she serves as Professor of Medicine and Head of the Centre for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. She is a Consultant Endocrinologist at the University Hospital Birmingham, the Birmingham Women’s Hospital and the Birmingham Children’s Hospital. She is a committed clinician scientist and heads a research group working on basic and clinical aspects of adrenal and gonadal disorders, with a particular focus on steroid endocrinology. She is a steering committee member of the European Network for the Study of Adrenal Tumours, ENS@T, and the FP7 European Collaborative Network on Disordered Sex Development, EuroDSD. She is an editorial board member of the European Journal of Endocrinology, Clinical Endocrinology, Journal of Endocrinology and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. She serves on several committees of the Society for Endocrinology United Kingdom and the Programme Organising Committees for the ECE meetings 2005 Gothenburg and 2010 Prague. She represents the European Society of Endocrinology as a POC member for the ICE meeting 2010 Kyoto. |
| Justo Castaño |  |
Dr. Justo P. Castaño Phone: +34 957 21 22 56 |
Justo P. Castaño is Professor of Cell Biology at the University of Cordoba, Spain. Dr. Castaño is 45 years of age. He graduated and obtained his PhD on Biological Sciences at the University of Cordoba and completed his postdoctoral training at the Medical University of South Carolina (Charleston, USA). He currently serves as Head of the Hormones and Cancer Research Group of the Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology of the University of Cordoba. His research over the last two decades has been focused on the regulation of pituitary cell types by somatostatin, cortistatin, GHRH, ghrelin, and kisspeptins, and on the molecular biology of these peptides, their receptors and signaling pathways in health and disease. More recently, these studies have been directed toward elucidating the presence and functional relevance of different types of neuropeptides and their receptors on human pituitary adenomas and in cancer. Dr. Castaño has published over 75 scientific articles and 30 book chapters and has contributed over 190 congress communications. He serves as Scientific Editor for the Journal of Molecular Endocrinology and on the editorial board of the Journal of Endocrinology, Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, and Journal of Alzheimer Disease, and has served as ad hoc reviewer for several journals, including Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Endocrinology, Endocrine Related Cancer, etc. He is President of the Iberian Society for Comparative Endocrinology, has served as member of the POC of the Rio de Janeiro ICE 2008 and the Liege ENEA Meeting 2010, and has co-chaired the Basic Endocrinology Courses of the ESE held in Cordoba (2006) and Turin (2009). He has directed 8 Doctoral Thesis. |
| 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. |
| Andrea Giustina |  |
Endocrine Service Montichiari Hospital via Ciotti 154 25018 Montichiari (Italy) Tel: +390309963480 Fax: +390309963477 Email: a.giustina@libero.it |
Andrea Giustina graduated in Medicine in 1986, postgraduated in Internal Medicine in 1991 and in Endocrinology in 1996. Assistant Professor in Endocrinology from 1991 and Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Brescia (Italy) from 2001. Full Professor of Internal Medicine from 2005, and from 2007 has been at the University of Brescia and is currently, head of Endocrine Service, Brescia-Montichiari Hospital. Andrea Giustina has published more than 350 original papers (220 on peer reviewed international journals) in the area of bone metabolism, basic and clinical neuroendocrinology, cardiovascular and skeletal endocrinology and diabetes. Previously member of the Editorial Board of JCE&M and Clinical Endocrinology, and is currently Editor of Pituitary and Reviewing Editor of the Journal of Endocrinological Investigation. Andrea Giustina has previously been a member of the Journal managing subcommittee of the Endocrine Society and is currently chairman of the Clinical Initiatives Committee of the Pituitary Society. |
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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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| Martin Reincke |  |
Medizinische Klinik – Innenstadt Tel.: +49-89-51602100 |
Martin Reincke is Professor of Medicine at the Medizinische Klinik Innenstadt, University of Munich, Germany. He received his MD from the University of Cologne, and from 1991–2, he worked as a research fellow in the laboratory of Dr George Chrousos (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA). Professor Reincke qualified in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany, and in 1998, he became Professor of Medicine and Head of Endocrinology and Diabetology at the Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany. Currently, Professor Reincke is the Chair of Endocrinology and Diabetology and Director of the Medizinischen Klinik – Innenstadt at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. In addition to his clinical duties, Professor Reincke has performed research in the areas of hormone substitution therapy, androgen and estrogen metabolism, molecular biology of pituitary adenomas, adrenocortical tumorigenesis and mineralocorticoid hypertension. Since 2006, he has served as a teaching Dean for the Faculty of Medicine and in April 2007, he was appointed acting director of the Medizinischen Poliklinik – Innenstadt at Ludwig-Maximilians University. Professor Reincke has published more than 180 manuscripts and contributed to more than 50 textbooks. |
| 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. |