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Esteemed clinicians and researchers recognized for their contributions to American Thyroid Association, thyroid cancer and thyroid disease research.

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The American Thyroid Association (ATA) celebrates the recipients of the Women Advancing Thyroid Research Award.  This award recognizes and honors the work of young women that are leading outstanding thyroid research.

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American Thyroid Association releases new guidelines for the diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of anaplastic thyroid cancer.

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American Thyroid Association to host ATA Alliance for Thyroid Patient Education Health Forum on Saturday, November 14, 2020 from noon - 1:15pm EST. Clinicians, Patient Advocates, Patients, and Families invited to participate.

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The new Executive Director replaces a legacy leader who has served the ATA for 24 years.

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For the first time in its 96-year history, the American Thyroid Association (ATA) will be majority led by a president, secretary/COO, treasurer, and past-president who are women.  The ATA, headquartered in Falls Church, VA, announces with pleasure that Martha Zeiger, MD, began a one-year term as president of the Board of Directors and Jacqueline Jonklaas, MD, started her 4-year term as Secretary/Chief Operating Officer at the close of the 89th Annual Meeting, November 3 in Chicago, Illinois.

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The American Thyroid Association will hold its 89th Annual Meeting on October 30-November 3, 2019, at the Sheraton Grand Chicago in Chicago, Illinois.

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November 1, 2019—The American Thyroid Association (ATA) is pleased to announce that the Distinguished Service Award recipient will be Dr. Robert C. Smallridge. He is Professor of Medicine at Mayo Medical School and the Alfred D. and Audrey M. Petersen Professor of Cancer Research.  He is a Deputy Director in the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center and has served as the Chair of the Division of Endocrinology, the Director of Research, and as a member of the  Board of Governors.

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November 1, 2019—The American Thyroid Association (ATA) is pleased to announce that the 2019 Sidney H. Ingbar Distinguished Lectureship Award recipient will be Dr. Bryan R. Haugen, currently is Professor of Medicine and Pathology at the University of Colorado Denver. He is also Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism & Diabetes and Director of the Thyroid Tumor Program and holds the Mary Rossick Kern and Jerome H.

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November 1, 2019—The American Thyroid Association (ATA) announces with pleasure that the 2019 John B. Stanbury Thyroid Pathophysiology Medal will be awarded to Dr. Sissy M. Jhiang at the ATA Annual Meeting this week. Dr. Jhiang is the Professor of Physiology and Cell Biology at the Ohio State University (OSU), member of the OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center and Graduate Faculty member for multiple graduate programs.

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November 2, 2019—The American Thyroid Association (ATA) announces with pleasure that the 2019 Lewis E. Braverman Distinguished Award recipient will be Dr. Martha A. Zeiger, Director of Surgical Oncology Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.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.

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October 31, 2019 — The American Thyroid Association (ATA) announces with pleasure that the prestigious Van Meter Award for 2019 has been presented to Dr. Cari Kitahara, a tenure-track Investigator at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.  Dr. Kitahara earned her doctoral (2011) and master’s (2008) degrees in cancer epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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The American Thyroid Association will hold its 89th Annual Meeting on October 30-November 3, 2019, at the Sheraton Grand Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. In addition to hearing major speeches and awards, attendees can view the following posters and oral presentations on disorders of thyroid dysfunction.###The American Thyroid Association® (ATA) is dedicated to transforming thyroid care through clinical excellence, education, scientific discovery and advocacy in a collaborative community.

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The American Thyroid Association will hold its 89th Annual Meeting on October 30-November 3, 2019, at the Sheraton Grand Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. In addition to hearing major speeches and awards, attendees can view the following posters and oral presentations on thyroid imaging and thyroid nodules and goiter.###The American Thyroid Association® (ATA) is dedicated to transforming thyroid care through clinical excellence, education, scientific discovery and advocacy in a collaborative community.

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October 31, 2019 —The American Thyroid Association (ATA) announces a new ATA award recognizing and celebrating the work of young women that are leading outstanding thyroid research, Women Advancing Thyroid Research (WATR) Award.  Sponsored by our publisher Mary Ann Liebert (https://home.liebertpub.com/) through the Rosalind Franklin Society (https://www.

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October 31, 2019—The American Thyroid Association (ATA) is pleased to announce that the 2019 Paul Starr Award recipient and lecturer is Dr. Douglas S. Ross Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Co-Director of Thyroid Associates at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.The Paul Starr Award is presented to an outstanding contributor to clinical thyroidology.

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The American Thyroid Association will hold its 89th Annual Meeting on October 30-November 3, 2019, at the Sheraton Grand Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. In addition to hearing major speeches and awards, attendees can view the following oral presentations on thyroid hormone action, metabolism, and regulation.###The American Thyroid Association® (ATA) is dedicated to transforming thyroid care through clinical excellence, education, scientific discovery and advocacy in a collaborative community.

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The American Thyroid Association will hold its 89th Annual Meeting on October 30-November 3, 2019, at the Sheraton Grand Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. In addition to hearing major speeches and awards, attendees can view the following poster and oral presentations on autoimmunity.###The American Thyroid Association® (ATA) is dedicated to transforming thyroid care through clinical excellence, education, scientific discovery and advocacy in a collaborative community.

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The American Thyroid Association (ATA) announces with pleasure that Elizabeth Pearce, MD, MSc, began a one-year term as president of the Board of Directors at the close of the Annual Meeting, October 7 in Washington, DC. Dr. Pearce has served for the past year as President-Elect. Newly elected board members are: Martha Zeiger, MD, President-Elect Jacqueline Jonklaas, MD, Secretary-Elect Joshua Klopper, MD, Director Angela Leung, MD, MSc, Director.

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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 American Thyroid Association (ATA) will hold its 88th Annual Meeting on October 3‒7, 2018, at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, DC. In addition to the major speeches and awards, a variety of smaller presentations will be accessible to attendees in the form of posters and oral abstracts. One group of these concerns disorders of thyroid function.

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The American Thyroid Association (ATA) will hold its 88th Annual Meeting on October 3‒7, 2018, at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, DC. In addition to the major speeches and awards, a variety of smaller presentations will be accessible to attendees in the form of posters and oral abstracts. One group of these regards thyroid cancer.

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The American Thyroid Association (ATA) will hold its 88th Annual Meeting on October 3‒7, 2018, at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, DC. In addition to the major speeches and awards, a variety of smaller presentations will be accessible to attendees in the form of posters and oral abstracts. One group of these regards thyroid nodules and goiters.

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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.