Leonard Wartofsky, MD, MACP, Washington Hosp Ctr Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose
Dr. Wartofsky is a Professor of Medicine, Anatomy, Physiology and Genetics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD., and Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine. He is Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Washington Hospital Center. He is a graduate of George Washington University and did his postgraduate training in internal medicine at the Barnes Hospital of Washington University in St. Louis and the Albert Einstein Medical Center in New York, and trained in endocrinology with Dr. Sidney Ingbar on the Harvard University Service, Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, at Boston City Hospital. Dr. Wartofsky is a past Secretary of the American Thyroid Association, and past President of both the American Thyroid Association and The Endocrine Society and a recipient of the Distinguished Educator Award of the Endocrine Society. He is the author or coauthor of 300 articles and book chapters in the medical literature and began a 5 year term as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism in January 2010.