ECE2019 21th European Congress of Endocrinology 2019 European Hormone Medal Lecture (2 abstracts)
Jens Bollerslev is head of the Section of Specialized Endocrinology at Oslo University Hospital, and Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has been a member of the Executive Board of the European Society of Endocrinology (ESE), former chair of the ESE Education Committee (201417), chair of the ESE committee for Post Graduate Courses (201619) and is currently chair of the newly established ESE PARAT project. Moreover, he was a member of the ESE Clinical Committee and was involved in the development of ESE Clinical Guidelines. He serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism as well as Endocrine. His special interest is within clinical and translational endocrinology, and in particular in classical endocrine diseases, such as Acromegaly and Cushings, often studying bone as target tissues for clinical activity. A major interest has been devoted to metabolic bone disorders, other than postmenopausal osteoporosis, as illustrated by his work for The Scandinavian Investigation of Primary Hyperparathyroidism. He has a deep interest in the control of bone remodeling as seen in the classical endocrine and inherited metabolic diseases (like Human Osteopetrosis and High Bone Mass Phenotypes), and also in relation to solid organ transplantation. As such, he has published more than 280 papers in international, peer reviewed journals and has been a mentor of more than 20 doctoral thesis projects.