The Newsletter of the American Thyroid Association
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Martha A. Zeiger, M.D.
Martha A. Zeiger, M.D.
ATA President
President's Report June 2020

Thank you:
ATA staff led seamlessly by Bobbi Smith and now Amanda Perl these past 3 months. Special thanks to the committee members of Surgical Affairs and Clinical Affairs, Patient Affairs and Education, and Internet Communications led by Rosemarie Metzger, Michael Singer, Carol Greenlee, Valerie Peck, Trevor Angell, and Avital Harari, respectively.

Rosemarie Metzger
Rosemarie Metzger
Michael Singer
Michael Singer
Carol Greenlee
Carol Greenlee
Valerie Peck
Valerie Peck
Trevor Angell
Trevor Angell
Avital Harari
Avital Harari


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Virtual Annual Business Meeting – September 12, 2020 12:00 – 2:00 pm EDT

Save the Date and join us for this year's Annual Business Meeting. In addition to organizational updates, the Annual Business Meeting will feature the Van Meter lecture and recognition of Jacqueline Jonklaas, MD, with the Distinguished Service Award and Antonio Bianco, MD, PhD, with the John B. Stanbury Thyroid Pathophysiology Medal Award. 0.75 CME/MOC credits will be available to those that view the Van Meter lecture upon completion of the program evaluation. Click here to RSVP.

Board of Directors – Candidates Announced

The Board of Directors has approved the Nominating Committee's slate of candidates and the election ballot will launch in early August.

The 2020 candidates are:

President-elect
Erik Alexander, MD, Brigham & Women's Hospital
Peter Kopp, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and University of Lausanne

Treasurer
Anthony Hollenberg, MD, Weill Cornell Medicine

Director – Otolaryngologist - Head and Neck Surgeon
Amy Chen, MD, Emory University Hospital Midtown
Brendan Stack, MD, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

Director – Private Practice Endocrinologist
Ernest Asamoah, MD, Diabetes & Endocrinology Consultants
Celeste Hart, MD, North Florida Thyroid Center

Nominations by petition, which require the signatures of at least 5% of the active members, may be submitted within the next thirty days by email to thyroidexec@thyroid.org. Voting members will receive their election ballot in early August and new Board members will take office after the Virtual Annual Business meeting in September.

Member Highlights: Submit Accomplishments

We want to celebrate and share the success of ATA members. Member accomplishments and milestones are posted online. Please help us recognize members that have had career moves, received an award or acknowledgment, or any other career achievement. View and submit achievements here.

July Webinar Schedule

July 14 Ablative Technologies for Benign and Malignant Thyroid Disease

Don't miss out on ATA's webinar series.

Next month's webinars include:

-- July 8, 1pm ET: The Urgent Threat of Thyroid and Other Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals to Our Health and Future…and What We Can Do About It with Leonardo Trasande, MD, MP

-- July 14, 2pm ET: Ablative Technologies for Benign and Malignant Thyroid Disease with Live Q&A with Faculty Juan P. Brito Campana, MD and Steven P. Hodak, MD

-- July 22, 1pm ET: Sonographic Evaluation of Thyroid Nodules: TIRADs vs ATA Scoring System with Lindsay A. Bischoff, MD

--July 31, 12pm ET: Advanced Pediatric Thyroid Cancer – Treatment Controversies with Live Q&A with faculty Adina Alazraki, MD, FAAP, Steven G. Waguespack, MD, Jonathan D. Wasserman, MD, Ari J. Wassner, MD

Register for the series today!

Apply for Committee Service by July 17th

Do you want to become more involved in ATA? Consider applying to serve as a committee member. Submit your volunteer preferences today!

Thyroid® is Now on Twitter

Add @thyroidjournal to your Twitter feed today to stay up to date on research studies. You can also follow our other journals at @clinicalthyroid and @vendocrinology.

Surgery During COVID-19

ATA Board Member Ralph Tufano, MD shares his insight in this video about surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ATA Board Member Ralph Tufano, MD

June Clinical Thyroidology for the Public now available

Clinical Thyroidology for the Public

The June issue of Clinical Thyroidology for the Public is now available. Topics covered include thyroid cancer mortality rates, small papillary thyroid cancers, and thyroid and pregnancy. Access today.

ATA Career Link

Career Link – New Jobs Posted

Endocrinologist
St. Luke's University Health Network, the region's largest, most established health system, a major teaching hospital, and one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals is seeking BC/BE Adult Endocrinologists to join an expanding practice of 5 adult and 1 pediatric endocrinologist.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

General Comprehensive Otolaryngologist – Head and Neck Surgeon
The Department of Head & Neck Surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is seeking full-time, clinical, non-tenure track general otolaryngologists to join its expanding community specialty clinical practice as a Staff Physician.
Los Angeles, California

Nurse Practitioner (NP) - Pediatric Endocrinology
Lutheran Children's Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana seeks to recruit a BC Pediatric Nurse Practitioner to join an established pediatric endocrinology practice.
Fort Wayne, Indiana

Thyroid

Volume 30, Issue 6, pp.791-938
available online through members only
Editor-in Chief
Electron Kebebew, MD

VideoEndocrinology

VE - Volume 7 Issue 2
available online through members only Editor-in-Chief
William B. Inabnet III, MD, FACS

Clinical Thyroidology

Volume 32, Issue 6, pp. 259-304
available online through members only
Editor-in Chief
Angela M. Leung, MD, MSc

Clinical Thyroidology for the Public

Volume 13, Issue 6, 2020
Now available online
Editor-in Chief
Alan P. Farwell, MD

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