Editorial Board

Faisal Ahmed, MD
Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, UK
Professor Faisal Ahmed was appointed as a consultant in paediatric endocrinology at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, Glasgow in 2000 and after holding the Leonard Gow Lectureship in Child Health for a few years, he was appointed to the Samson Gemmell Chair of Child Health at the University of Glasgow in 2012. Since 2019, he has also held an appointment at the University of Leiden as Professor of Endocrine Registries. In Glasgow, he founded the Developmental Endocrinology Research Group and the Office for Rare Conditions. His research has focussed particularly on improving the health of people with rare endocrine conditions, and especially those with conditions affecting sex development and maturation or skeletal development. For his contributions to the field of paediatric endocrinology, he was awarded the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology Research Award in 2021.

Rosalia CM Simmen, PhD
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA
Dr Rosalia (Rosie) Simmen is Professor Emeritus of Physiology and Cell Biology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA. Professor Simmen’s research interests centre around mechanistic aspects of women’s health with emphasis on metabolic linkages in steroid hormone-dependent breast and gynecological cancers and reproductive disorders including endometriosis and infertility. She has served on numerous editorial boards for reproduction and endocrine-related journals over the last 30 years, most recently as Senior Editor of Journal of Endocrinology and Journal of Molecular Endocrinology. She is a regular reviewer for many national and international research funding agencies, has served in leadership roles in various professional societies, and has trained more than 120 undergraduate, graduate, and medical students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty. She has published ~200 peer-reviewed articles, editorials, and book chapters in the areas of reproduction and cancer biology.

Section Head - Jolanta Krajewska, PhD
M Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland
Dr Krajewska is board-certified in endocrinology and internal diseases. She has been deeply involved in the treatment of thyroid carcinoma for more than 20 years. The subject of her habilitation thesis concerned kinase tyrosine inhibitor therapy for advanced thyroid carcinoma, especially treatment-related side effects. Dr Krajewska’s research interest focuses on the management of advanced differentiated and medullary thyroid cancer, including the treatment with tyrosine kinase inhibitors, other endocrine malignancies, and molecular background of thyroid carcinomas, particularly radioiodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer and medullary thyroid cancer.
 

Carla Bizzarri, MD, PhD
Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome, Italy
Carla Bizzarri graduated in Medicine from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome in 1991. She subsequently specialized in Pediatrics and Endocrinology. Since 2003, she has been working as a Pediatric Endocrinologist at the Bambino Gesù Pediatric  Hospital in Rome, where she is currently the head of the Pediatric Endocrinology Unit. She authored over 130 scientific papers published in international journals. She is a member of the Italian Society of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology (SIEDP), where she has served as a board member, and the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE), where she has been the coordinator of the Summer School.

Filippo Ceccato, MD, PhD
University of Padova and University-Hospital of Padova, Italy
Dr Filippo Ceccato is a Senior Assistant Professor in Endocrinology at the Department of Medicine DIMED, University of Padova, and a consultant in Clinical Endocrinology at the Endocrine Unit (expertise in pituitary and adrenal diseases), University-Hospital of Padova. His research activity is focused on the diagnosis of pituitary and adrenal neoplasm (Cushing’s syndrome, adrenal carcinoma, incidentaloma, acromegaly, adrenal insufficiency), on clinical application of mass spectrometry for cortisol-related diseases, on the management of disease-related complications and identification of genetic alterations in endocrine tumors. He obtained the Italian National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor in Endocrinology (MED/13, 06/D2), and in 2019 the Award for Best Researcher in Endocrinology under 35 from the Italian Society of Endocrinology.

Amit Pandey, PhD
University Children's Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Professor Amit V Pandey has a M.Sc. and PhD in Biochemistry working on cytochrome P450 and heme metabolism. Following postdoctoral research at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) in USA, working on CYP17A1 and androgen regulation, he began his career at the University of Bern in 2005, obtaining his habilitation in endocrinology in 2010. He is currently the head of steroid biochemistry and growth hormone research laboratories at the University Children’s Hospital Bern and a Professor at University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. His research focuses on androgen regulation in humans, with focus on prostate cancer and polycystic ovary syndrome, and pharmacogenomics of steroid and drug metabolizing cytochrome P450 enzymes.

Massimo Terzolo, MD
University of Turin – San Luigi Hospital, Italy
Professor Massimo Terzolo is director of the Division of Internal Medicine at San Luigi Hospital, and Full Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Turin. Professor Terzolo is a clinical and translational researcher specialized on adrenal diseases with major expertise in management of patients with adrenal tumours. Recent work from his group has provided significant advances in the development of new therapeutic strategies for adrenal carcinoma and in the definition and management of subclinical Cushing syndrome.

Stelios Tsagarakis, PhD
Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece
Dr Stelios Tsagarakis is the former Head of the Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes and coordinator of the National Expertise Centre for Rare Endocrine Diseases at Evangelismos Hospital in Athens and currently is serving in private practice in Athens. He has a major interest in pituitary tumours especially Cushing’s disease and in adrenal disorders especially adrenal incidentalomas with a focus on diagnosis and management of mild autonomous cortisol secretion.

Justin Davies, MD
Southampton Children's Hospital, and University of Southampton, UK
Professor Justin Davies is Professor of Paediatric Endocrinology at the University of Southampton, UK. He is Head of Department at the Regional Centre for Paediatric Endocrinology at Southampton Children’s Hospital. His research interests include growth and imprinting disorders, secondary osteoporosis and differences of sex development. He Co-Chairs the British Society of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes Growth Disorders Special Interest Group. He was a past Chair of the British Society of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes and is Chair of the international – DSD care quality committee. He leads an international school for paediatric endocrinology (European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology, Winter School.

Miguel Madeira, MD, PhD
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Graduated in Medicine from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2003), Residency and Specialist Title in Endocrinology, Master's degree in Medicine (Endocrinology) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2009) and PhD from the Federal University of Rio January (2013). He has experience in the area of Clinical Medicine, with an emphasis on Endocrinology. Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Medicine at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a doctor at the Endocrinology Service at the Bonsucesso Federal Hospital. Post-Doctorate from the José Alencar National Cancer Institute (INCA).President of the Department of Bone and Mineral Metabolism of the Brazilian Society of Endocrinology and Metabology (2019-2020 biennium) and Scientific Director of the Brazilian Society of Endocrinology and Metabology (Rio de Janeiro region).

Andrea Palermo, MD, PhD
University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy
Dr Andrea Palermo is a clinical researcher in endocrinology and diabetes at University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy. He graduated in 2006 from University Campus Bio-Medico where he earned his MD. Afterwards, he attended a residency program in Endocrinology and Metabolism at University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy. During his specialization, he combined his clinical training as a diabetologist with the study of novel non-injectable insulin formulations such as the buccal spray insulin. Successively, he began his PhD course in the field of bone metabolism at the same institution. In particular, he focused his research interests on the interplay between bone and glucose metabolism and the study of calcium and bone metabolism, investigating new diagnostics and therapeutic aspects of clinical and subclinical forms of parathyroid glands diseases. During his PhD program, he also attended The Academic Unit of Bone Metabolism (Sheffield, UK) where he successfully studied the normocalcemic Hypoparathyroidism and its potential genetic impairment. He has won awards for his research at national and international meetings. In particular, he received the young investigator award from the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research and Endocrine society and ECTS lain T Boyle award 2020 for the study of calcium disorders. His research interests also include osteoporosis, diabetes and thyroid cancer. He has published over 100 research articles including original article, invited reviews and book chapters in the field of osteoporosis, bone and mineral metabolism and thyroid nodules/cancer.

Section Head - Alexander Bartelt, PhD
Technical University of Munich, Germany
Alexander Bartelt is the Else Kröner Professor & Chair of Translational Nutritional Medicine at Technical University of Munich. He received his Diploma in Biochemistry in 2007 and his PhD in 2010 from University of Hamburg, Germany with honours. After his postdoctoral training at Harvard University, USA he started as a principal investigator in Munich in 2018. The Bartelt lab is dedicated to understanding the basic principles of metabolic adaptation as well as the molecular pathology of cardiometabolic diseases. One primary scientific focus of the lab is the interplay of proteostasis, inflammation and cellular stress resistance and this research is currently supported by the European Research Council ERC, the German Center for Cardiovascular Research DZHK, the German Research Foundation DFG. Over the years, Dr Bartelt’s contributions have been recognised by national and international awards, fellowships and honours.

Jun Yang, PhD
Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Monash University, Australia
A/Professor Jun Yang is the Head of the Endocrine Hypertension Group at Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Consultant Endocrinologist at Monash Health and Senior Researcher in the Department of Medicine at Monash University, Victoria, Australia. Jun graduated from Monash University with a MBBS (Hon) in 2001 and completed her PhD on tissue-selective coregulators of the mineralocorticoid receptor in 2013. She has continued basic and clinical research in the fields of mineralocorticoid receptor biology and primary aldosteronism. She collaborates nationally and internationally to improve the detection and understanding of primary aldosteronism so as to achieve improved patient outcomes.

Section Head - Paul Foster, PhD
University of Birmingham, UK
Dr Paul Foster is currently Associate Professor of Endocrine Cancer at the University of Birmingham. He is also the Director of Education for the Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research (IMSR). Dr Foster’s research interests focus on identifying and then exploiting new therapeutic targets within steroid metabolism to treat endocrine-related cancers. He has a major interest in various enzymes involved in oestrogen metabolism, in particular steroid sulfatase and the 17beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases. Dr Foster has been involved in numerous drug development projects over the past 20 years and has significant experience in target identification and validation.

Section Head - Kathryn Tan, PhD
Queen Mary Hospital, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong
Kathryn Tan is Sir David Todd Professor in Medicine and Head of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of Hong Kong. Her main research interests include lipid disorders and lipoprotein metabolism, and the role of dyslipidaemia and post-translational modification derived products in the pathogenesis of vascular disease and diabetic complications. She is currently serving on the Executive Board of the Asian Association for the Study of Diabetes. She has recently published in Diabetes Care and in Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology on the pathological role of carbamylated lipoproteins in diabetes.

Valdis Pīrāgs, PhD
University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Valdis Pirags is Professor of Endocrinology and the Chair of Internal Medicine at the University of Latvia, and director of the Clinic of Internal Medicine at the Pauls Stradiņš Clinical University Hospital. Professor Pirags is credited with discovering of the PKC-dependent cellular mechanisms of platelet activation by glucose and revealing that probability of side effects of metformin are genetically predisposed. These research achievements resulted in establishing of a unique Laboratory of Personalised Medicine at his department. His current interests are focused on revealing of self-regulated psychoneuroendocrine mechanisms counteracting to pathogenesis and exacerbation of chronic diseases.

Esben Søndergaard, PhD
Aarhus University, Denmark
Dr Søndergaard is an endocrinologist at Steno Diabetes Centre Aarhus and Associate Professor at Department of Clinical Medicine at Aarhus University. His research interest is centred around human studies of integrated physiology and substrate metabolism in diabetes. He has published paper on lipid and lipoprotein metabolism and the consequences of diabetes, insulin resistance and inflammation in adipose tissue. He is currently performing studies on ketone body and lactate metabolism and the metabolic consequences of increasing ketogenesis by pharmacological treatment and lifestyle interventions using stable isotope and PET tracer techniques. He also has an interest in adrenal disease. He has been awarded the Jens Sandahl Christiansen Award from the European Society of Endocrinology.

Section Head - Alexander Bartelt, PhD
Technical University of Munich, Germany
Alexander Bartelt is the Else Kröner Professor & Chair of Translational Nutritional Medicine at Technical University of Munich. He received his Diploma in Biochemistry in 2007 and his PhD in 2010 from University of Hamburg, Germany with honours. After his postdoctoral training at Harvard University, USA he started as a principal investigator in Munich in 2018. The Bartelt lab is dedicated to understanding the basic principles of metabolic adaptation as well as the molecular pathology of cardiometabolic diseases. One primary scientific focus of the lab is the interplay of proteostasis, inflammation and cellular stress resistance and this research is currently supported by the European Research Council ERC, the German Center for Cardiovascular Research DZHK, the German Research Foundation DFG. Over the years, Dr Bartelt’s contributions have been recognised by national and international awards, fellowships and honours.

Jennifer Lyn Baker, PhD
Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Copenhagen University Hospital - Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg, Frederiksberg, Denmark
Dr Baker's research programme investigates how body size and growth during childhood in combination with other exposures across the lifecourse relate to disease. Dr Baker’s work particularly focuses on short and long-term effects of overweight and obesity in children. She and her group have shown that a higher body mass index in childhood increases the risk during adult life of numerous non-communicable diseases including several types of cancer, cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.

Po-Shiuan Hsieh, MD, PhD
National Defense Medical Center (NDMC), Taipei, Taiwan
Professor Po-Shiuan Hsieh is currently Director of the Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences and Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, National Defense Medical Center (NDMC), Taipei, Taiwan. Professor Hsieh’s research interests have focused on the pathological links between obesity and metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes and potential therapeutic strategies. Additionally, his recent research interests have centred around the regulatory mechanism underlying weight control and energy metabolism. He has published a series of SCI articles regarding the role of COX-2-mediated signaling in obesity-associated adipose tissue inflammation and insulin resistance as well as the involvement of hepatic inflammation into the development of type 2 diabetes.

Peter Kühnen, MD
Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
Professor Peter Kühnen was appointed as the director of the Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin in 2022. Since 2023, he is leading the Berliner Center for Rare Disease. His research is focused on rare endocrine/metabolic diseases such as monogenic obesity and congenital hyperinsulinism and the epigenetic regulation of body weight.

Section Head - Henrik Oster, PhD
University of Lübeck, Germany
Professor Henrik Oster serves as the Lichtenberg Endowed Chair of Neurobiology and director of the Institute of Neurobiology at the University of Lübeck. After receiving his PhD in biochemistry in Fribourg (CH) and postdoctoral training in Hannover (DE) and Oxford (UK) he started his work in chronophysiology in Göttingen (DE) and, since 2011, in Lübeck (DE). His special interests are in the interaction of endocrine and circadian systems in the regulation of energy metabolism, behavioural functions, and sleep.

Jens Otto Lunde Jorgensen, PhD
Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
Jens Otto Lunde Jorgensen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Clinical Medicine and the Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes. Professor Jørgensen’s main research interests include growth hormone (GH), GH-deficiency, metabolic actions of GH and acromegaly, with further work in insulin resistance states, obesity, Cushing and ghrelin.

Section Head - Rosalia CM Simmen, PhD
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA
Dr Rosalia (Rosie) Simmen is Professor Emeritus of Physiology and Cell Biology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA. Professor Simmen’s research interests centre around mechanistic aspects of women’s health with emphasis on metabolic linkages in steroid hormone-dependent breast and gynecological cancers and reproductive disorders including endometriosis and infertility. She has served on numerous editorial boards for reproduction and endocrine-related journals over the last 30 years, most recently as Senior Editor of Journal of Endocrinology and Journal of Molecular Endocrinology. She is a regular reviewer for many national and international research funding agencies, has served in leadership roles in various professional societies, and has trained more than 120 undergraduate, graduate, and medical students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty. She has published ~200 peer-reviewed articles, editorials, and book chapters in the areas of reproduction and cancer biology.

Sasha Howard, PhD
Queen Mary University of London, UK
Dr Sasha Howard is a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Career Development Fellow and Clinical Reader at the Centre for Endocrinology, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Endocrinology at Barts Health NHS Trust. Her translational research investigates the genetic basis of pubertal timing, using next-generation sequencing, comparative transcriptomic and epigenetic investigative approaches to identify novel genetic variants underlying precocious, delayed and disordered puberty. Her clinical research is focused on optimising diagnosis in delayed and precocious puberty and facilitating best practice management, particularly for mini-puberty and pubertal replacement in male hypogonadism.

George Mastorakos, PhD
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Professor George Mastorakos is currently Professor of Endocrinology and Director of the post-graduate University Master Research in Female Reproduction at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Professor Mastorakos’ research interests include endocrinology of reproduction, pregnancy and menopause, obesity, neuroendocrine mechanisms in chronic/acute stress and immune/inflammatory reaction, endocrinology of exercise, hypothalamic amenorrhea. He has served as member on the International Advisory Panel for Endocrine Reviews. He served as president of the Hellenic Endocrine Society and ex-officio member of the European Society of Endocrinology (ESE) ExCo. He has been the recipient of a Special Recognition Award from ESE.

Lisa Owens, PhD, MD
St James's Hospital and Trinity College Dublin, Dubline, Ireland
Dr Lisa Owens works as a Consultant Endocrinologist at St James's Hospital, Dublin since 2019 and is also a Honorary Senior Lecturer in Medicine at Trinity College Dublin and Imperial College London. She completed a PhD in PCOS and a Fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology at Imperial College London. She works as a Reproductive and General Endocrinologist and her clinical and research interests include complex menopause, premature ovarian insufficiency, PCOS, and male factor infertility.

Richard Quinton, MD
Northern Regional Gender Dysphoria Service, CNTW NHS Trust (substantive Consultant contract), UK
Dr Richard Quinton is a Consultant Endocrinologist to the Northern Gender Dysphoria Service (CNTW NHS Trust), based at the Walkergate Parke Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and honorary Reader in Reproductive Endocrinology at the Department for Metabolism, Digestion & Reproduction at Imperial College London.

William Walker, PhD
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Dr. Walker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a Member of the Magee Womens Research Institute at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Walker’s research is focused on the endocrine control of male spermatogenesis and fertility. He has been characterizing gene expression and intracellular signaling pathways in the mammalian testis for over 25 years. Dr. Walker determined that testosterone can act via two mechanisms in Sertoli cells to support spermatogenesis. In the classical pathway, T interacts with the androgen receptor (AR) to directly regulate gene expression. In the non-classical pathway, T acts via the AR to activate numerous kinases, their target proteins and downstream gene expression in Sertoli cells. Dr. Walker’s current interests include the use of proteomic and transcriptomic approaches to identify testosterone-mediated secreted proteins from Sertoli cells that are required for germ cells to complete meiosis. He is also studying estrogen and androgen regulation of benign prostate hyperplasia in aging mice and men.

Section Head - Alexander Teumer, PhD
University Medicine Greifswald, Germany
Dr Alexander Teumer is a researcher and is leading a group focusing on genetic epidemiology at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the University Medicine Greifswald. Having a background in mathematics and computer science, he participated in and led various projects on determining the genetic background of complex traits and diseases. Currently, his main research focus is on thyroid and kidney function. He is the co-leader of the ThyroidOmics consortium studying the determinants and effects of thyroid diseases and function.

Sara Ahmadi, MD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Dr. Sara Ahmadi is a board-certified endocrinologist specializing in treating patients with thyroid disease, focusing on thyroid cancer and thyroid nodules. She was an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Duke University, a member of the Duke Endocrine Neoplasia team, and the Duke Cancer Institute from 2016 to 2019, and She has been an associate physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School since 2019. She has served on several committees and task forces at the American Thyroid Association and Endocrine Society. She has served as a member of the American Thyroid Association's (ATA)patient education and Trainee committees, co-chair of the ATA Trainee committee, and a member of the ATA centennial task force, ATA annual meeting program committee, and Endocrine Society clinical Endocrinology update committee.

Anupam Kotwal, MD
University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, United States
Dr. Anupam Kotwal is Medical Director of the Thyroid Tumor Program at Buffett Cancer Center and Assistant Professor in the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism at University of Nebraska Medical Center. He trained in Endocrinology at Mayo Clinic, Rochester. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology. He is a physician-scientist who has received funding from the Department of Health and Human Services and a scholar grant from NIH/NIGMS to study prognostic immune markers in thyroid cancer.

Gloria Hoi-Yee Li, PhD
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Dr. Li obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Bioinformatics, MPhil and PhD degrees from the University of Hong Kong (HKU). She received her post-doctoral training at the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, HKU. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Health Technology and Informatics of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Dr. Li has hands-on research experience in analysis of multi-omics data and big data analytics using electronic health records. Her recent research focuses on thyroid dysfunction and the associated epidemiology study.

Yushu Li, PhD, MD
The First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China
Yushu Li obtained her Bachelor and PhD degrees from China Medical University, and finished her postdoctor training in Kyoto University of Japan.  She is currently Professor of the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The First Clinical College, China Medical University and the PI of Key Laboratory of Thyroid diseases of NHC. Her research interests lie primarily in thyroid diseases and metabolic bone disease.

Mustafa Sahin, MD
Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
Prof. Dr. Mustafa Şahin is a clinical and translational researcher specializing in Endocrinology and Internal Medicine. His primary research interests focus on the management of thyroid nodules and carcinomas, thyroid sonography, and the genetics of thyroid diseases. He is also involved in research on adrenal and pituitary endocrine neoplasias, endocrine disruptors, stem cell studies, and diabetes mellitus.
Prof. Dr. Şahin is the President of the Thyroid Study Group of the Society of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases. He is an active member of the Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism of Turkey, the European Thyroid Association (ETA), and the European Endocrinology Association.

Chih-Yuan Wang, MD
National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan
Chih-Yuan Wang, MD, PhD is a Deputy Director, Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. His research interests are thyroid cancer,autoimmune thyroid disease, insulin resistance, lipid metabolism, glucose metabolism, clinical endocrinology, cholesterol, and triglycerides