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ENDO 09 Annual Meeting

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CLINICAL - Issues in the Management of MEN2

Track : CLINICAL

Program Code: M46

Date: Friday, June 12, 2009

Time: 2:45 PM to 3:30 PM EST

SPEAKER :

A Grossman, MD, FRCP, St Bartholomew's Hosp.
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose

Ashley Grossman initially graduated with a BA in Psychology and Social Anthropology from the University of London, then entered University College Hospital Medical School in London and took the University Gold Medal in 1975. He also obtained a BSc in Neuroscience. Following junior posts in cardiology and neurology, he joined the Department of Endocrinology at St. Bartholomew�s Hospital where he has been for the past 30 years, and where he is currently Professor of Neuroendocrinology at Barts and the London School of Medicine, and Consultant Physician. In 2000 he was appointed a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He has published over 600 research papers and reviews, and has particular interests in pituitary, thyroid, adrenal, neuroendocrine and hypothalamic tumours. His early clinical research concentrated on the management of pituitary tumours, particularly prolactinomas, but more recently he has focused his attention on the diagnosis and management of acromegaly and, particularly, Cushing�s syndrome. He also has a major clinical interest in the management of hypothalamic tumours. For the last 15 years his interests have expanded increasingly outside the hypothalamo-pituitary axis to include broad areas of endocrine oncology, most especially neuroendocrine tumours of all types, including phaeochromocytomas, paragangliomas, adrenocortical cancer, medullary thyroid cancer and hereditary endocrine tumour syndromes. In terms of basic research, he followed an early interest in the regulation of pituitary function by a series of studies on hypothalamic regulation, eventually exploring the interaction between the hypothalamus and the immune system in terms of cytokines and gaseous neurotransmitters. However, for the last decade he and his group have focused on the molecular pathogenesis of pituitary, adrenal and neuroendocrine tumours. He is the immediate Past-President of the European Neuroendocrine Association, Chairman of the UKI Neuroendocrine Tumour Society, and Chairman of the Advisory Boeard of the European Neuroendocrine Tumour Society. He is past editor of the journal Clinical Endocrinology, on the editorial board of the major textbook De Groot and Jameson�s Endocrinology, is Vice-Chairman of the major on-line textbook Endotext.org, and serves on the editorial boards of many journals. He is married with 6 daughters who occupy most of his time when he is not working.

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