Endocrine Abstracts

Dr Lynnette Nieman is a Senior Investigator and Chief of the Endocrinology Consultation Service at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Research Center. She has been at the NIH since her fellowship. From 1991 to 2001 she served as the Clinical Director of intramural NICHD, overseeing clinical care of the institute’s patients and ensuring compliance with human subjects research regulations.

Dr Nieman is an active clinician, having seen more than 1100 patients with Cushing’s syndrome and is the Principal Investigator for six active protocols. She has authored more than 250 publications and sponsored three investigational new drug applications to the FDA, one of which was licensed in the US and Europe. She provided Congressional testimony on one of these agents. She is a co-editor of the Adrenal Section of UpToDate and an associate editor for the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.

She is a member of the subcommittee that creates the US Endocrinology and Metabolism certification examination. Dr Nieman has received the NIH Director’s Award, Clinical Teacher of the Year award and the Endocrine Society’s Distinguished Physician award. She is a past Vice President for Clinical Science of the Endocrine Society and Chaired its 2012 annual meeting.