Journal of the Endocrine Society Editors and Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief 

Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, PhD
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois, USA

Dr. Madak-Erdogan is Sylvia D. Stroup Scholar of Nutrition and Cancer, Associate Dean of Graduate College, and Cancer Center Program Leader at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She received her PhD and undertook postdoctoral studies on mechanisms of nuclear receptor action at UIUC. She has been a faculty member in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition since 2014, and the Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences at the Carle-Illinois College of Medicine since 2020. Her lab uses advanced computational analysis of ‘omics data from patient samples and in vivo and in vitro cancer models to understand how hormones and the environment impact disparities associated with metabolic health and cancer outcomes. She has built a strong and diverse laboratory and mentors high school students, undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral associates. Madak-Erdogan teaches courses in Cancer Metabolism, Basic Toxicology, Diet, Nutrition and Cancer, and Women’s Health. She has received several awards, including a Postdoctoral Fellowship from a National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Training Grant in Endocrine Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology, a fellowship from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the Women in Endocrinology Young Investigator Award from the Endocrine Society, the Mary Swartz Rose Young Investigator Award, the Bio-Serv Experimental Nutrition Award from the American Society for Nutrition, and she was named a Future Research Leader and a Health Disparities Research Institute Scholar by NIH. She was selected as a National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leader in 2023.

Deputy Editor 

Stephen R. Hammes, MD, PhD
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Rochester, New York, USA

Dr. Hammes is the Louis S. Wolk Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester. He is also the Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, as well as the Vice Chair for Research and Academic Affairs in the Department of Medicine. Dr. Hammes has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Endocrine Society journals Molecular Endocrinology and Endocrinology. He is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. Dr. Hammes’ research interests include steroidogenesis and steroid signaling, with a focus on extranuclear, or nongenomic, steroid effects. He studies these processes in the setting of female reproduction as well as in hormone-sensitive cancers such as prostate cancer and in lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM). 

Associate Editors 

Madson Q. Almeida, MD, PhD
University of São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil

Dr. Almeida is Professor of Endocrinology and Tenured Investigator at the Adrenal Unit, Division of Endocrinology, Clinics Hospital & Division of Endocrine Oncology, São Paulo State Cancer Institute, University of São Paulo Medical School. He did a postdoctoral fellowship at National Institutes of Health after earning his PhD at the University of São Paulo. He has served on the editorial board of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism and has recently joined the editorial board of the JCEM Case Reports. His research interests include the molecular basis and clinical management of endocrine hypertension. His projects apply basic science knowledge to clinical diagnosis, pathophysiology, and treatment of primary aldosteronism and pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas.

Kristien Boelaert, MD, PhD, FRCP
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, United Kingdom

Kristien Boelaert is a Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Birmingham. Her clinical research interests include the management of thyroid dysfunction, nodules, and cancer, as well as endocrine disorders in pregnancy. Her laboratory research focuses on the pathogenesis of thyroid cancer. She led the NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) Guidelines on Thyroid Diseases and UK Guidance on Management of Thyroid Cancer. She is a member of the Working Groups on Thyroid Diseases in Pregnancy for the American Thyroid Association and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Dr. Boelaert’s research attracts funding from major grant-awarding bodies and she is a regular speaker at national and international conferences. She serves on the editorial boards of The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology and Clinical Endocrinology. She is a member of the Society for Endocrinology Council and Clinical Committee, the American Thyroid Association Awards Committee, the Endocrine Society Annual Steering Meeting Committee, and the Royal College of Physicians Specialist Certificate Examination Board.

M. Furkan Burak, MD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Dr. Burak is an endocrinologist and faculty member who leads the translational immunometabolism research group at Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School. He also serves as a basic science researcher at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Department of Molecular Metabolism.  His research mainly focuses on the role of adipose tissue-derived molecules in obesity and development of new therapeutic strategies in obesity related immunometabolic diseases such as diabetes, fatty liver disease, and asthma. He is triple board certified in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Obesity Medicine. His clinical practice focuses on obesity, diabetes, and immunometabolism. Additionally, he was appointed to MassHealth Drug Utilization Review Board as the sole endocrinologist by the Governor of Massachusetts. He has contributed to the obesity and immunometabolism field with high impact publications, patents, book chapters, and has received many prestigious awards including Early Investigator Award of the Endocrine Society, United Nations Top Outstanding Young Persons of the World medical innovation and scientific development award, and the Charles A. King-Bank of America Trust Fellowship.

Dana Dabelea, MD, PhD
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Aurora, Colorado, USA

Dr. Dabelea is the Conrad M. Riley Endowed Professor of Epidemiology (Colorado School of Public Health) and Pediatrics (School of Medicine), the Director of the Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center, and a Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Dr. Dabelea is an internationally recognized expert in pediatric obesity, diabetes, and lifecourse epidemiology, and a recipient of the prestigious Kelly West award in Diabetes Epidemiology from the American Diabetes Association. Her interests focus on the understanding of the complex and multifactorial etiology of diabetes, both type 1 and type 2, with a goal of preventing its occurrence, and reducing or preventing its complications throughout the lifecourse. As the Director of the LEAD Center, she oversees large, longitudinal, cohort studies spanning the entire lifecourse, from pregnancy through old age.

Quan-Yang Duh, MD
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California, USA

Dr. Quan-Yang Duh is Professor of Surgery and Chief of Section of Endocrine Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Attending Surgeon at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco. Dr. Duh obtained his MD from UCSF. He specializes in surgery for tumors of the thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal glands, as well as endocrine pancreas and gastrointestinal tumors. Dr. Duh is Past President of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons and was a recipient of its Oliver Cope Meritorious Achievement Award. He was the American Thyroid Association (ATA) Paul Starr Award Lecturer in 2017. He has published more than 400 papers and co-edited three textbooks on endocrine surgery. Dr. Duh is on the editorial board of Thyroid, JAMA-Surgery, Video Endocrinology and other publications.

Bruno Ferraz-de-Souza, MD, PhD
University of Western Australia
Perth, Australia

Dr. Ferraz-de-Souza is Deputy Dean and Associate Dean, Student Affairs, for the Global MD program at the University of Western Australia (UWA) Medical School in Perth, Australia. Clinically trained in Endocrinology at the University of Sao Paulo, he received his PhD in Endocrinology from University College London (UCL), London, UK, in 2011. Dr Ferraz-de-Souza was Deputy Editor-in-Chief for Archives of Endocrinology and Metabolism, the official journal of the Brazilian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism (SBEM), and a Senior Editor for Endocrine Connections. He has been a Director At-Large on the Board of Directors of the Endocrine Society since 2024, and was previously chair of the Committee on Diversity and Inclusion and the Publications Core Committee. His research interests include the molecular basis and clinical management of metabolic bone disorders and the molecular diagnosis of rare and common endocrinopathies.

Pamela U. Freda, MD 
College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University 
New York, New York, USA

Dr. Freda is professor of medicine at the Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University. She is also clinical director of the Neuroendocrine Unit and co-director of the Pituitary Center at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She has served as an editorial board member of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism and Journal of the Endocrine Society, on the Endocrine Society Endocrinology Self- Assessment Committee (ESAP) and as a Quality Reviewer for “Up to Date Endocrinology”. Dr. Freda is an American Board of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism Board Exam Committee Member. Dr. Freda’s research interests include pituitary tumors, acromegaly, body composition changes in GH disorders and physiology of the GH-IGF-1 axis. Her clinical practice focuses on pituitary tumors and pituitary disease. 

Andrea C. Gore, PhD 
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas, USA

Dr. Gore is professor and Vacek Distinguished University Chair in Pharmacology at the University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy. Her research focuses on fundamental mechanisms of how environmental endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) perturb the developing brain; sex differences in EDC actions; and transgenerational epigenetic effects. She has published 4 books and over 200 scientific papers and is a current NIEHS R35 RIVER recipient. Dr. Gore was Editor-in-Chief of Endocrinology from 2013-2017 and was lead author of the Endocrine Society’s two Scientific Statements on EDCs and the Endocrine Society-IPEN Guides to EDCs, most recently in 2024. Among her most notable research, teaching, and service awards are her election as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; the University of Texas Cooperative Society’s Research Excellence Award; and the Endocrine Society Laureate Award for Outstanding Public Service.  

Zhenqi Liu, MD
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

Dr. Liu is the James M. Moss Professor of Diabetes and Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. His research involves translational studies on insulin action and insulin resistance, endothelial function and vascular biology, and energy metabolism. Dr. Liu has previously served as Chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of Virginia and an associate editor for Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders, and on multiple grant review panels and study sections and the editorial boards of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism and The American Journal of Physiology – Endocrinology and Metabolism. He co-chaired the Endocrine Society International Scholars Program Task Force.

Deborah E. Sellmeyer, MD 
Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, California, USA

Dr. Sellmeyer is a clinical professor of medicine in the Stanford University School of Medicine.  She is an internationally recognized expert in metabolic bone disease. Her research centers on the effect of nutrition and environmental factors on skeletal metabolism, which she has investigated through both smaller clinical research center-based trials and large multi-center trials. Studies she has conducted have investigated the role of dietary sodium chloride, sources of dietary protein (animal, vegetable, dairy, soy), the role of dietary potassium and alkaline potassium salts, the effects of targeted thoracic exercises on kyphosis, whether structured exercise can prevent bone loss in premenopausal women treated for breast cancer, and the validation of nutritional assessment questionnaires.  

Selma Feldman Witchel, MD
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Dr. Witchel is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the Director of the Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship Program at the UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. She is a Past President of the Androgen Excess-Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Society. She has served as an editorial board member of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, the Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, and Journal of the Endocrine Society. Dr. Witchel is currently serving on the Editorial Board of Sexual Development and is an associate editor of Steroids. Her clinical and research interests include disorders of androgen excess, disorders of puberty, glucocorticoid actions, and differences in sex development.

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Editorial Board

Adegbenga Bolanle Ademolu, MBBS

Lagos State University Teaching Hospital
Lagos, Nigeria

Manuel H. Aguiar-Oliveira, MD, PhD 

Universidade Federal de Sergipe 
São Cristóvão, Brazil

Decio Armanini, MD

Università degli Studi di Padova
Padua, Italy

Leon A. Bach, MBBS, PhD, FRACP

Alfred Hospital
Melbourne, Australia

Traci Bekelman, PhD, MPH

Colorado School of Public Health
Aurora, Colorado, USA

Jerzy Bełtowski, MD, PhD

Medical University of Lublin
Lublin, Poland

Traci N. Bethea, PhD, MPA

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
Washington, DC, USA

Vinicius Nahime Brito, MD, PhD

University of São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil

Irene Campi, MD, PhD

IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Milan, Italy

Rubén Cardozo, PhD

Ministerio de Salud Publica
Salta, Argentina

Fernando Cassorla, MD 

University of Chile
Santiago, Chile

Catherine C. Cohen, PhD, RDN 

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Aurora, Colorado, USA

Paulo F. Collett-Solberg, MD, PhD

Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 

Margaret de Castro, MD, PhD

Ribeirao Preto Medical School - University of São Paulo
Ribeirao Preto, São Paulo, Brazil

Ruban Dhaliwal, MD, MPH 

UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas, USA

Beverly E. Diamond, PhD

Columbia University (Ret)
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Laura E. Dichtel, MD, MHS

Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Rivka Dresner-Pollak, MD

Hadassah Medical Organization - Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel

Daisy Duan, MD 

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Ghada El-Hajj Fuleihan, MD, MPH

American University of Beirut
Beirut, Lebanon

Erica A. Eugster, MD 

Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Maria Candida Barisson Villares Fragoso, MD, PhD 

University of São Paulo 
São Paulo, Brazil

Andrea Glezer, MD, PhD 

Hospital das Clinicas, University of São Paulo 
São Paulo, Brazil

Daniel A. Gorelick, PhD

Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, USA

Caroline M. Gorvin, DPhil

University of Birmingham
Birmingham, United Kingdom

Kylie K. Harrall, PhD, MS 

University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida, USA

Najmul Islam, MD

Aga Khan University
Karachi, Pakistan

Atil Y. Kargi, MD

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Bernard Khoo, MBBChir, PhD, FRCP

University College London
London, United Kingdom

Christian A. Koch, MD, PhD

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
and
The University of Florida
Jacksonville, Florida, USA

Nils W. Lambrecht, MD, PhD, FCAP

American University of Health Sciences
Signal Hill, California, USA
and
Long Beach VA Hospital
Long Beach, California, USA

Xia Li, PhD

The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University
Changsha, China

Kaitlin M. Love, MD 

University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

Moisés Mercado, MD, FRCP(C)

Hospital de Especialidades Centro Medico Nacional Siglo XXI
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Mexico City, Mexico

Jerome Nwachukwu, PhD

Wertheim UF Scripps Institute
Jupiter, Florida, USA

Christina Pamporaki, MD, PhD, PD habil 

Universitätsklinikum Dresden 
Dresden, Germany

Rosa Maria Paragliola, MD, PhD 

Unicamillus, Saint Camillus University of Health Sciences 
Rome, Italy

Rosario Pivonello, MD, PhD 

Federico II University 
Naples, Italy

Melissa O. Premaor, PhD

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Sudhaker D. Rao, MBBS 

Henry Ford Hospital / Michigan State University
Detroit, Michigan, USA

Manuela G. M. Rocha-Braz, MD, PhD 

Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein 
São Paulo, Brazil

Joseph L. Shaker, MD

Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Angela Sheu, MBBS, PhD, FRACP 

Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Darlinghurst, Australia 

Yutaka Takahashi, MD, PhD

Nara Medical University
Nara, Japan 

Alfredo Ulloa-Aguirre, MD

National University of Mexico (UNAM)-INCMNSZ
Mexico City, Mexico

Varsha G. Vimalananda, MD, MPH

Boston University School of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Yi Zheng, MD, PhD

Army Medical University
Chongqing, China

Endocrine Society Staff

Richard T. O’Grady, PhD

Publisher

Timothy M. Beardsley, DPhil

Executive Editor