Endocrine Abstracts

Andrea Dunaif, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, United States. Abstract

Dr Dunaif received her MD from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, trained in New York and Boston and rose to rank of Associate Professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Since 1992 Dr Dunaif has held posts at Brigham and Women’s Hospital as Director of Women’s Health and Chief of the Division of Women’s Health, and at Harvard Medical School National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health. In 2001, she was recruited to her current post.

Dr Dunaif’s research has focused on reproductive physiology and metabolism in women and she is an internationally recognised expert on polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). She is Director of the Northwestern University Specialized Center of Research on Sex and Gender Factors Affecting Women’s Health and is the immediate past president of the Endocrine Society. She has more than 100 scientific publications and has edited three books on PCOS and received many awards and honours, including a Woman of Achievement Award from the Big Sisters Association of Greater Boston and the 2006 Arnold Adolph Berthold Medal from the 50th Annual Meeting of the German Endocrine Society.