Melvin Malcom Grumbach (December 21, 1925 to October 4, 2016)
Submitted by Alan Rogol
“Mel” was born in Brooklyn, NY and received most of his advanced education in New York including his medical education at Columbia. He was a fellow of Lawson Wilkins at Johns Hopkins and a life-long friend of Judson Van Wyk. One of his major areas of investigation was the hormonal regulation of growth from fetal life through puberty which he accomplished mainly at UCSF where he became the chair of Pediatrics. Setting him aside from the east coast pediatric endocrinologists was the concept that anatomy alone should not dictate the gender of upbringing. Mel received many honors including the first recipient of the JJ Van Wyk award of PES and the Koch Award, the highest award of the Endocrine Society.