Endocrine Abstracts

Susan M. Webb was born and qualified from Medical School in Barcelona, Spain, and completed training at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London and in San Antonio, Texas. She is a Senior Consultant Endocrinologist at the Hospital Sant Pau, and Professor of Medicine at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She runs the Neuroendocrine Clinic and the Pituitary Disease network of excellence research group (CIBERER unit 747), interested in the long-term consequences of having suffered pituitary diseases and evaluation of health-related quality of life. She coordinates the European Registry on Cushing’s Syndrome (ERCUSYN) initially funded by the EU, has been President of the Spanish Society for Endocrinology and Nutrition, Secretary of ENEA, and until 2018 member of the ESE ExCo; she has served on the editorial boards of JCEM, Pituitary, Endocrine, among others. She has been a member of the European Union Committee of Experts on Rare Diseases (EUCERD), and is currently Scientific Assistant Director of CIBERER (Spanish network of excellence for rare diseases) and President of the Rare Disease Advisory Committee of the Catalan health system Catsalut. She has supervised some 20 PhD theses and has (co)-authored over 350 publications (original papers, invited reviews, and book chapters).