Susan J. Mandel, MD, MPH, Univ of Pennsylvania Schl of Med Disclosure:Susan J. Mandel, MD, MPH, has received research grant support from Novacyte.
Dr Mandel is Professor of Medicine and Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where she also directs the Endocrine fellowship program. She serves as the Associate Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
She is a member of the Endocrine Society, where she currently serves on Council, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, and the American Thyroid Association and is the President of the Association of Program Directors in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism. Her research interests include the use of sonography in the evaluation of patients with thyroid nodules and as surveillance for those with thyroid cancer and thyroid disease during pregnancy. She served on the writing groups for both the American Thyroid Association Management Guidelines for Patients with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer and the Endocrine Society Guideline for the Management of Thyroid Disease During Pregnancy. Dr. Mandel directs the Introductory and Advanced Ultrasound Workshops for the Endocrine Society. She has authored papers in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Annals of Internal Medicine, and JAMA, as well as publications in endocrine and radiology journals.
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.