Executive Committee
Jérôme Bertherat: President, 2023-2025
Jérôme Bertherat: President, 2023-2025
Jérôme Bertherat is Professor of Endocrinology at Paris University, Chief of the Endocrinology Department of Cochin Hospital, head of the National Centre for Rare Adrenal Diseases and of the research team “Genomics and Signaling of Endocrine Tumours” in the Cochin Institute (INSERM), Paris, France. He serves as the coordinator of the French National Network for Rare Endocrine Disorders. He has been dedicated to the international Endocrine Community with positions including: Deputy editor of the European Journal of Endocrinology, a member of the Nominations Committee, Congress Committee, and the Executive Committee of the European Society of Endocrinology. In addition he was Chair of ESE’s Clinical Committee. He has played a founder role in various international research or health care collaborative efforts such as the European Network for the Study of Adrenal Tumours and the ENDO-ERN. He has served in various committees of the Endocrine Society and is an ISE Executive Committee member representing Europe. He is an international research leader on Cushing’s syndrome, the genetics of familial adrenal tumours and the molecular genetics of endocrine tumours. His laboratory has identified major genes involved in adrenocortical tumour formation. He is the author of more than 450 publications with anH-index of 77.
Wiebke Arlt: President-Elect, 2023-2025
Wiebke Arlt: President-Elect, 2023-2025
Wiebke Arlt is the Director of the Medical Research Council London Institute of Medical Sciences (MRC LMS) as well as Professor of Transdisciplinary Medicine at Imperial College, London, UK. She previously worked at the University of Birmingham, UK, as MRC Senior Clinical Fellow and William Withering Chair of Medicine, and as founding Director (2015-2022) of the Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research (IMSR). Wiebke leads a multi-disciplinary research group investigating steroid metabolism and action in health and disease. As a clinician, she cares for patients with adrenal and reproductive disorders, and established clinical endocrine services of excellence recognised at the European level (ENSAT, ENDO-ERN). Wiebke grew up in Cologne, Germany, where she studied Medicine, Philosophy and Psychology and undertook an academic MD degree in Endocrinology. From 1990-1993, she trained in Neurology and Psychiatry and qualified as psychoanalytical psychotherapist. From 1994-1998, she undertook clinical and academic training in Endocrinology & Diabetes and Internal Medicine at the University of Würzburg. With a DFG Postdoctoral Fellowship, she trained in Molecular Endocrinology at the University of California at San Francisco (1998-2001). In 2001, she was awarded a DFG Heisenberg Senior Fellowship, which took her to Birmingham, which she subsequently decided to make her home.
Maria Chiara Zatelli (Italy): Secretary, 2022-2026
Maria Chiara Zatelli (Italy): Secretary, 2022-2026
Maria Chiara Zatelli is a Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Ferrara and Head of the Endocrine Unit at the University Hospital in Ferrara, Italy. Her major research interests are neuroendocrine, thyroid and pituitary tumours, both from the clinical and the translational point of view, focussing on prognostic factors and resistance to medical treatment. She is a member of several international and Italian national societies and is involved in numerous collaborative studies. She collaborates with Patient organisations and is involved in several activities at the School of Medicine and the Residency School in Endocrinology of the University of Ferrara. She is very interested in developing the innovative potential of the new generations.
Djuro Macut: Treasurer, 2020-2024
Djuro Macut: Treasurer, 2020-2024
Djuro Macut, MD, PhD is Professor of Internal Medicine and Endocrinology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Serbia. He graduated and obtained PhD degree at the same institution. Dr Macut was on clinical attachment programs at the University Hospitals in Bologna, Uppsala and Oxford, and completed postgraduate program in Reproductive Medicine from the University of Geneva and World Health Organization. Dr Macut is Head of Department and Deputy Director, Clinic of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Clinical Center of Serbia. Djuro served as Organising Committee member and Scientific Committee chair of the Serbian National Congress of Endocrinology. He is member of the ESE Congress Committee, ESE Council of Affiliated Societies (ECAS) representative to the ESE Executive Committee and served as POC member for ECE 2017 (Lisbon) and ECE 2018 (Barcelona). Djuro organised International Symposiums on Advances in PCOS and Women’s Health and Belgrade Masterclass in Clinical Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. His fields of interest are reproductive endocrinology, metabolic endocrinology and neuroendocrine tumours. He is author in over 90 original articles and reviews published in peer reviewed journals, author of book chapters including co-editorship of the book on PCOS from the Karger’s series Frontiers of Hormone Research. He was invited speaker on International Congresses and Postgraduate Courses. Djuro is Associate Editor of Hormones and Editorial board member of Journal of Endocrinological Investigation, Journal of the Endocrine Society (2017-2019) and Endocrine and serves as reviewer for numerous international journals.
Cynthia Andoniadou : Chair of the Congress Committee, 2022-2026
Cynthia Andoniadou : Chair of the Congress Committee, 2022-2026
Cynthia Andoniadou is a basic scientist researching stem cells of endocrine tissues, and their regulation in homeostasis and disease. She was born in Athens, Greece, and carried out her studies in the UK, where she established her research career. Cynthia is a Reader in Stem Cell Biology at the Centre for Craniofacial & Regenerative Biology, King’s College London and Associate Dean for Postgraduate Research for the Faculty. She has a joint affiliation with the Centre for Internal Medicine, Technische Universität Dresden as a Group Leader. Cynthia obtained her PhD in Anatomy and Developmental Biology from UCL, having carried out her graduate research on neural stem cells at the MRC National Institute for Medical Research. She completed her postdoctoral studies at the UCL Institute of Child Health, working on mechanisms of disease pathogenesis of congenital defects affecting the forebrain and pituitary gland, before focusing on pituitary gland stem cells. Cynthia established her research group at King’s College London in 2013 and is the recipient of a Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine Research Prize (2016) and SfE Starling Medal (2022). She is an active member of the UK and international endocrine community and an advocate for strengthening basic endocrinology research.
Philippe Chanson: Chair of the Publishing and Communications Committee, 2021-2025
Philippe Chanson: Chair of the Publishing and Communications Committee, 2021-2025
Philippe Chanson is Professor of Endocrinology at University Paris-Saclay and Head of the Service of Endocrinology and Reproductive Diseases at Bicêtre’s Hospital (Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris). He coordinates one of the French National Reference Centers for Rare Pituitary Diseases. He also leads the Bicêtre HCP for Endo-ERN. His main interest is in Neuroendocrinology: pituitary adenomas including acromegaly, Cushing’s disease; and Reproduction (gonadotropic function and disorders) which are his main clinical research themes. He conducts his basic research in INSERM U1185 on effects of GH on kidney and on pituitary tumorigenesis. He is the General Secretary of the French Pituitary Club and past Treasurer of European Neuroendocrine Association (ENEA). He was recently elected at the Board of Directors of The Pituitary Society. He has served the Boards of Clin Endocrinol, J Clin Endocrinol Metab, Endocrine, J Endocr Soc and is now in the Editorial Board of Pituitary. He was awarded in 2018 for the Clinical Endocrinology Trust Prize of the European Society of Endocrinology and for the Rolf Gaillard Prize of the European Neuroendocrinology Association. He is the author or co-author of more than 300 original peer-reviewed contributions and many invited reviews or book chapters.
Mirjam Christ-Crain: Chair of the Education Committee, 2020-2024
Mirjam Christ-Crain: Chair of the Education Committee, 2020-2024
Mirjam Christ-Crain is full Professor of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the University of Basel and the University Hospital of Basel, Switzerland. She studied medicine in Basel and Vienna and did her MD in the year 2000 at the University of Basel and her PhD 2007 at the University of London followed by her habilitation at the University of Basel in 2007. From 2009 to 2015 she had a research professorship of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Her main research interest is on vasopressin-dependent disorders of fluid homeostasis, i.e. diabetes insipidus and hyponatremia. She authored and co-authored more than 200 publications including high-ranked publications in the New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet and received several honours and awards for her research, most recently the European Journal of Endocrinology Award 2019. Since 2013 she is Deputy Chief at the Clinic for Endocrinology, University Hospital Basel and since 2014 she is Head of the Department of Clinical Research at the University of Basel.
Eleanor Davies: Chair of the Science Committee, 2023-2027
Eleanor Davies: Chair of the Science Committee, 2023-2027
I am Professor of Molecular Endocrinology in the School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Health at the University of Glasgow. I graduated from the University of Glasgow with a BSc (Hons) Biochemistry and then from the University of Edinburgh with a PhD. After a post-doctoral position in Newcastle and a 3-year fellowship in INSERM U36 Paris, I returned to Glasgow. Currently, I lead a translational research group investigating the role of aldosterone in cardiovascular disease, in particular hypertension and stroke. My studies integrate molecular biology, cell biology and human clinical studies and they have been funded by grants from the EU, MRC, BHF and CSO. Currently, we are investigating the utility of circulating OMIC biomarkers including miRNAs in the diagnosis of Endocrine Hypertension (ENSAT-HT). In addition, I am director of our Cardiovascular Sciences MSc programme and our British Heart Foundation PhD training programme. I am a reviewer for multiple national and international funding organisations and journals and for the last 5 years I have also chaired the Scottish Government’s CSO Translational Science grants committee.
Martin Fassnacht: Chair of the Clinical Committee, 2021-2025
Martin Fassnacht: Chair of the Clinical Committee, 2021-2025
Martin Fassnacht is Professor of Internal Medicine/Endocrinology and Chair of the Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes at the University Hospital in Würzburg. He studied medicine at the School of Medicine at the universities of Saarbrücken and Würzburg and completed his medical training in Würzburg. In-between he joined the Duke University in North Carolina as postdoctoral fellow for 2 years. In 2012, he was appointed as professor of endocrinology at the University of Munich and since 2014 he is the successor of Bruno Allolio in Würzburg. Martin served on several boards of national and international endocrine societies including the Clinical Committee of ESE. He has been a founding member, working group head, and chair of the European Network for the Study of Adrenal Tumours (ENSAT). Furthermore, he had been one of the founding members of the supporting organisation for young researchers in endocrinology (YARE), the German predecessor of EYES. His scientific interests mainly relate to endocrine tumours, adrenal and pituitary diseases, and obesity. Martin has authored more than 280 publications in high-ranking international journals and has received a number of awards, including the European Journal of Endocrinology Award 2014. He has organised numerous scientific meetings and has chaired two guideline panels of ESE.
Sebastian Neggers: Chair of the Rare Disease Committee, 2023-2027
Sebastian Neggers: Chair of the Rare Disease Committee, 2023-2027
Since 2007, he is a consultant in Medicine and Endocrinology at the Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam (Netherlands), where he also completed his Doctoral thesis titled “New insights into the medical treatment of acromegaly” in 2011. Research: long-term effects of treatment of childhood cancer on endocrine and metabolic parameters in adulthood. Secondly, treatment of pituitary diseases in particular; the medical treatment of acromegaly, familial pituitary disease and pituitary tumours. The third area of interest is metabolic disease, like diabetes and obesity, focusing on acylated and non-acylated ghrelin. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, including multiple book chapters and presented his research at numerous conferences, including the ECE, ENDO, American Society of Hematology and SIOP. He is currently a board member of Dutch Childhood Oncology Group late effects. Dr Neggers is an editor for the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism and was an associate editor for Neuroendocrinology (2016-2020) and Journal of Neuroendocrinology (from 2020). In 2019, he was the Programme Organising Committee (POC) chair for the European Congress of Endocrinology 2019. He is a member of numerous societies, including the European Society of Endocrinology, the Endocrine Society, the Dutch Society for Endocrinology, the Pituitary Society, GRS and the European Neuroendocrine Association. In 2009, Dr Neggers won the ESE Young Investigators Award.
Sherwin Criseno: Ex-Officio member as the Chair of the ESE Nurse Committee, 2019-2023
Sherwin Criseno: Ex-Officio member as the Chair of the ESE Nurse Committee, 2019-2023
Sherwin is an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Endocrinology in one of the leading Tertiary Endocrine Centres in the UK . He leads the largest team of Specialist Nurses in Endocrinology in the UK. He is an active member of the Society for Endocrinology Peer Review Working Group, the UK Pituitary Foundation Medical Committee, the European Society for Endocrinology Clinical Committee and the incoming Chair of the European Society for Endocrinology Nurses Working Group. He has special interest in pituitary disorders, adrenal disorders, growth hormone, metabolic bone disorders, long-term effects of cancer treatment and male fertility. Sherwin has published on peer-review journals and presented nationally and internationally at various scientific and educational meetings. His current research focus is on primary hyperparathyroidism, osteoporosis and vitamin D. Contact: Sherwin.criseno@uhb.nhs.uk, Endocrinology Department, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Mindelsohn Way, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2GW.
Anton Luger: Ex-Officio member responsible for ECAS, 2020-2024
Anton Luger: Ex-Officio member responsible for ECAS, 2020-2024
Anton Luger was born in Vienna and went there to school at the Lycee francais and Theresianische Akademie. After an intermezzo studying Law and Interpreter for French he turned to Medicine and graduated in 1978. Before starting his training in internal medicine, Anton joined the Institute of Pharmacology of the University of Vienna for two years where he was involved in studies on colonic ion transport in rabbits serving as model for the distal nephron of the kidney. From 1985-1986 Professor Luger was a Max Kade fellow at the Developmental Endocrinology Branch at the NIH in Bethesda, MD, USA, working with George Chrousos and Lynn Loriaux studying exercise physiology and the interplay between the endocrine and immune systems. Thereafter Anton returned to the Medical University of Vienna, where he served as Deputy Head, Acting Head and Head of the Clinical Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism from 1995 through 2018. Besides his strong devotion to patient care and teaching, his main scientific interests are Neuroendocrinology and Diabetes mellitus. Anton have published 258 original papers among others in the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Diabetes and Diabetes Care as first or last author.
Antoan Stefan Sojat: Ex-Officio member as the Co-Chair of the EYES Committee, 2022-2024
Antoan Stefan Sojat: Ex-Officio member as the Co-Chair of the EYES Committee, 2022-2024
Antoan Stefan Šojat is a M.D and a PhD candidate working in the Clinic for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases in the University Clinical Centre of Serbia. His clinical and research work focuses on adrenal and reproductive endocrinology. He is also interested and involved in academic mobility and career development programs.
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