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| NEW YORK, NY | For Immediate Release |
Jerome Hershman Receives American Thyroid Association’s 2007 John B. Stanbury Medal for Thyroid Pathophysiology October 6, 2007— Jerome M. Hershman, MD, of Los Angeles, Calif., was honored with the American Thyroid Association’s (ATA) John B. Stanbury Medal for Thyroid Pathophysiology today at the ATA’s 78th Annual Meeting in New York City. The award recognizes outstanding research contributions to the understanding of thyroid physiology or pathophysiology of thyroid disease. Dr. Hershman was honored with this award for the impact his research in thyroid physiology and pathophysiology has had on subsequent research and clinical practice in thyroid disorders. He is a distinguished professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, associate chief of the Endocrinology and Diabetes Division at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center and director of its Endocrine Clinic. Dr. Hershman received a B.S. in chemistry from Northwestern University, an M.S. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology, and a M.D. from the University of Illinois School of Medicine in Chicago. He was a resident in internal medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and the Boston VA Hospital and trained in endocrinology at the New England Medical Center. Dr. Hershman was president of the ATA from 1992 to 1993 and editor of Thyroid from 1991-2000. He received the ATA’s Sidney Ingbar Distinguished Lectureship Award in 1997. Dr. Hershman has authored over 340 research papers in endocrine literature and written 120 book chapters and reviews about thyroid function and disease. His current research focuses on the cell biology of thyroid cancer and the management of thyroid diseases. For more information, please contact the ATA at thyroid@thyroid.org. |
