Endocrine Abstracts

Mark E Molitch, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA Abstract

Mark E. Molitch, MD, is Professor of Medicine and a Member of the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Molecular Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago, Illinois. Prior to joining the faculty at Northwestern in 1984, Dr. Molitch was an Associate Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dr. Molitch earned an A.B. degree from Princeton University and an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He did his housestaff training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and an Endocrine Fellowship at the UCLA-Harbor General Hospital in Torrance, California.

Dr. Molitch has participated in clinical research for many years, focusing on the pathogenesis of pituitary tumors and their treatment. He has also had a long-standing interest in the interaction between pituitary tumors and pregnancy. He has been involved in most of the initial trials of therapeutic agents for pituitary tumors, including those using bromocriptine, mesulergine, quinagolide, cabergoline, octreotide, octreotide-LAR, and lanreotide. Dr. Molitch has been a member of the committees that wrote many current clinical guidelines used by endocrinologists, including those for Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency, Prolactinomas, Acromegaly, Diabetes, Diabetic Nephropathy, and the upcoming Pituitary Incidentalomas. He has also participated in international diabetes trials, including the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial, the Diabetes Prevention Program, and the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation 2 Diabetes Trial.

In addition to editing six books/journal volumes, Dr. Molitch has authored or coauthored more than 300 original papers, review articles, book chapters, case reports and other publications. For many years, Dr. Molitch was an Associate Editor of the Year Book of Endocrinology and is currently an Editor of the journal, Pituitary. In 1997, Dr. Molitch was named ‘Outstanding Physician Educator in the Field of Diabetes’ by the American Diabetes Association. He is currently a member of the Council of The Endocrine Society.