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The American Thyroid Association (ATA) announces with pleasure that the 2018 Van Meter Award has been presented to Dr. Carmelo Nucera, currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology and at the Cancer Center and Cancer Research Institute of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Harvard Medical School. He is also an Associate Member at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and Faculty member at the Center for Vascular Biology Research (CVBR) at BIDMC, which is dedicated to “improve human health by using genomics to advance our understanding of the biology and treatment of human disease, and to help lay the groundwork for a new generation of therapies.”

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The Braverman Distinguished Award is presented annually to an individual who: demonstrates excellence and passion for mentoring fellows, students, and junior faculty; has a long history of productive thyroid research; and is devoted to the ATA. The American Thyroid Association (ATA) announces with pleasure that the 2018 Lewis E. Braverman Distinguished Award recipient will be Dr. R. Michael Tuttle, currently Clinical Director of the Endocrinology Service and Attending Physician at Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases in New York City.

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The American Thyroid Association (ATA) is pleased to announce that the 2018 Paul Starr Award recipient and lecturer will be Dr. Scott A. Rivkees, Professor and Chair, as well as Nemours Eminent Scholar, at the University of Florida Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Rivkees is also Physician-in-Chief at Shands Children’s Hospital in Gainesville, Academic Chair of Pediatrics at Arnold Palmer Hospital in Orlando, and University of Florida Chair of Pediatrics at Studer Family Children’s Hospital at Sacred Heart in Pensacola. The Starr Award is presented to an outstanding contributor to clinical thyroidology. At the ATA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, Dr. Rivkees will deliver the Paul Starr Award Lecture at 1:00 pm on October 4, 2018, on “Unmasking the Problems With Antithyroid Medication Safety.”

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The American Thyroid Association (ATA) announces with pleasure that the 2018 John B. Stanbury Thyroid Pathophysiology Medal will be awarded to Dr. Marvin C. Gershengorn at the ATA Annual Meeting this week. Dr. Gershengorn is Chief of the Clinical Endocrinology Branch (formerly the Laboratory of Endocrinology and Receptor Biology) at the National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.

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The recipient of the 2016 American Thyroid Association (ATA) Paul Starr Award Lecture is Mingzhao Xing, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, Oncology, and Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Dr. Xing delivered The Paul Starr Award Lecture, entitled "BRAF in Prognostication of Thyroid Cancer -- Where Are We Now?" at the ATA's 86th Annual Meeting, September 21-25, 2016, in Denver, Colorado.