Ronald S Swerdloff, MD, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Disclosures: RSS: Principal Investigator, Clarus, Abbott Laboratories.
Ronald Swerdloff, MD, is the Chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA , Director of the Harbor-UCLA Reproductive Program - World Health Organization Collaborative Center for Reproduction; NIH Contraceptive Clinical Trials Center. He is a basic and clinical investigator, distinguished educator, and highly regarded clinician. A leader in the field of endocrinology and metabolism, he has contributed greatly to our understanding of reproductive biology and men’s health. Specific areas of interest have included regulation of puberty, regulation of spermatogenesis, basic mechanisms of apoptosis, male hypogonadism, reproductive aging, androgen physiology, androgen drug development, male contraceptive development and sex chromosome aneuploidy. He has been an invited speaker to over 300 conferences and symposia, published over 500 journal articles and book chapters, edited a number of books and served as an Editor of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. He has received many awards including the Endocrine Society’s Distinguished Educator Laureate Award. Dr. Swerdloff has had a long standing interest in the pathophysiology of Klinefelter syndrome been on the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Klinefelter Syndrome Association. He will speak today on the insights into Klinefelter syndrome based on studies in the 41 XXY mouse model.