Endocrine Abstracts

B Allolio, Department for Endocrinology and Diabetes, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany Abstract

Bruno Allolio received his Bachelor of Physics Degree in 1974 and graduated in Medicine from the University of Cologne in 1975. He obtained his MD in 1977 and trained in General Medicine and Endocrinology at the University Hospital Cologne. He received basic science training under the auspices of John Landon at Bartholomew’s Hospital, London (1981–1982), and at the NIH, Bethesda (1989). He became Professor of Medicine and Head of the Department for Endocrinology and Diabetes at the University of Wuerzburg in 1992.

His interests include adrenal disorders with a current research focus on adrenocortical cancer, adrenal imaging and adrenal insufficiency. Further interests comprise pituitary adenomas, regulation of the HPA axis, bone disease, and hyponatraemia.

He has been a founding member of the European Network for the Study of Adrenal Tumours (ENSAT) and has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the European Society of Endocrinology (2004–2009) and as media officer in the Council of the German Society for Endocrinology.

Bruno Allolio has published more than 250 papers in international journals and more than 50 book chapters. He has served in the editorial boards of the European Journal of Endocrinology and the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.