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| NEW YORK, NY | For Immediate Release |
Kenneth Burman Receives American Thyroid Association’s 2007 Paul Starr Award October 4, 2007 —Kenneth D. Burman, M.D., of Kensington, MD, is the recipient of the American Thyroid Association’s (ATA) 2007 Paul Starr Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to clinical thyroidology. As part of this prestigious award, he presented a major lecture today, called "Thyroid Cancer: Historical, Clinical and Molecular Perspective" at the ATA’s 78th Annual Meeting in New York City, where he also received the award. In addition, Dr. Burman also began his one-year term today as the new ATA president-elect. The award is supported by ATA Member Boris Catz, MD, and, in part, by an unrestricted educational grant from King Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Burman is currently chief of the Endocrine Section in the Department of Medicine at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC. He is also program director of the Integrated Georgetown University/Washington Hospital Center Endocrine Fellowship Program and a professor at the Department of Medicine at Georgetown University and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Dr. Burman obtained his undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. and his medical degree from the University of Missouri. He took his internal medicine training at Barnes Hospital, Washington University and his Endocrine Fellowship at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. His research efforts are focused on thyroid cancer, autoimmune thyroid disease and translational clinical thyroidology. Dr. Burman was honored with the ATA Van Meter Award in 1984. He is a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation, a master in the American College of Physicians and serves on the FDA’s Endocrine Advisory Board. An ATA member for 32 years, Dr. Burman has served on the board of directors and is currently on the editorial board of Thyroid. He was a local arrangements co-chair of the ATA Annual Meetings held in Washington, DC in 1987 and 2001. Dr. Burman has served as a member and chair of the Public Health Committee and as a member of the Finance and Audit, Awards and Education Committees. For more information, please contact ATA Communications Consultant Jennifer Reising at jreising@reisingcommunications.com or 703-300-9248. |
