Endocrine Abstracts

S Melmed, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA. Abstract

Shlomo Melmed received his medical degree with distinction from the University of Cape Town, School of Medicine in 1970. At Cedars-Sinai since 1980, he is now Senior Vice-President for Academic Affairs, and Dean of the Medical Faculty. He is also Professor and Associate Dean of UCLA School of Medicine.

Dr Melmed is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine, certified in Endocrinology and Metabolism; a fellow of the American College of Physicians and elected to Master of the ACP in 2010; an elected member of the Association of American Physicians and the American Society of Clinical Investigation. He is also the recipient of the Endocrinology Trust Medal of the Royal Society of Medicine; the Endocrine Society Clinical Investigator Award; and the Pituitary Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Dr Melmed’s laboratory has been consistently funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 1980 to 2013, and he has trained over 60 physicians, scientists and graduate students who occupy leading positions in academic endocrinology worldwide. His research is devoted to molecular pathogenesis and treatment of pituitary tumors and growth factor regulation of anterior pituitary function. He has pioneered the discovery and application of novel treatments for endocrine tumors and is a recognized international authority on pituitary medicine.

Dr Melmed is acknowledged as a plenary speaker at multiple national and international meetings and is the author of over 250 peer-reviewed articles in prestigious publications. He co-edits Endocrinology: Basic and Clinical Principles, DeGroot and Jameson’s Textbook of Endocrinology, and Williams Textbook of Endocrinology; and is pituitary section author for Harrison’s Textbook of Medicine. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Pituitary, and is on the editorial board of Journal of Clinical Investigation and past Editor-in-Chief of Endocrinology.

Having served on the NIH Endocrinology Study Section, he has also chaired Special Endocrine Study Sections. He was President and founding member of the Pituitary Society, co-chairs its Program Committee, and was an elected member of the Endocrine Society Council. He was President of the International Society of Endocrinology and a member of the Executive Board Committee, Program Chair of the International Congress of Endocrinology, and a Director of the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs.