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Dr. Young is Professor of Medicine in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Vice-Chair of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, and Nutrition. He received his MD degree in 1978 from Michigan State University. Dr. Young is senior editor for Clinical Endocrinology and editor in chief of the Mayo Clinic Endocrinology Update Newsletter. He is the recipient of multiple education awards. In 2010 he received a named professorship�the highest academic distinction at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Young�s clinical research focuses on primary aldosteronism and pheochromocytoma. He has published over 210 articles on endocrine hypertension and adrenal and pituitary disorders. He has presented at over 250 national and international meetings and he has been an invited visiting professor for more than 80 medical institutions.

Dr. Auchus received his S.B. in chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his medical degree and Ph.D. in pharmacology from Washington University. He completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and a fellowship in Endocrinology at the Wilford Hall USAF Hospital and the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio. He did postdoctoral work and training at the University of California, San Francisco prior to joining the faculty at UT Southwestern in Dallas. Dr. Auchus has been the recipient of several awards and honors such as Burroughs Wellcome Clinical Scientist Award in Translational Research and the Jean D. Wilson, M.D. Award for Excellence in Scientific Mentoring at UT Southwestern. His memberships in professional organizations include the American College of Physicians, the Endocrine Society, the American College of Clinical Endocrinologists, and the Dallas County Medical Society/Texas Medical Association. He has authored over 120 journal articles and book chapters, and he has presented at a diverse range of national and international conferences. His group is active in research projects ranging from basic chemical principles of steroid biosynthetic enzymes to clinical and translational investigation in disorders of the pituitary, adrenals, ovaries, and testes that cause hypertension, infertility, and obesity. The common theme of all his work is steroid and sterol biosynthesis and action with an emphasis on the chemistry of human diseases. He collaborates with a range of investigators spanning a broad range of science from clinical neurobiology to molecular mechanisms regulating hormone production and action from nematodes to human beings. His clinical interests also focus on pituitary, adrenal, and reproductive diseases that involve disorders of steroid production.