Dear Colleagues, Welcome to my PES monthly President’s Newsletters! I want to begin by expressing my heartfelt gratitude to Dr.…
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I am Juwairriyyah Siddiqui, MD, a second-year Pediatric Endocrinology Fellow at Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai. Growing up in a family of physicians fueled my passion for community service,…
Arnold Adolph Berthold (1803-1861) Testis Transplantation and the Regain of Male Sexual Characteristics and Behaviors Submitted by Alan Rogol In 1849 Berthold transplanted testes from roosters into the abdominal cavity…
This past weekend the Division of Endocrinology and the Department of Pediatrics lost their founding father and a giant in our field, Dr. Arlan Rosenbloom. Dr Rosenbloom came to the…
Professor Pierre Sizonenko died 13 February, 2023 at his home in Geneva, Switzerland, after a 15-year battle with multiple myeloma. Pierre was born and educated in Paris, followed by a…
The use of glucagon-like-peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists for the treatment of obesity has increased significantly over the past year. Due to high demands and limited supply, patients and clinicians are…
Augustine Joseph “Joe” D’Ercole, M.D., one of the giants of pediatric endocrinology, died on December 21, 2023 at home in Chapel Hill, NC. Joe graduated from the University of…
Holiday greetings to all PES Members and Friends! As we close out another calendar year, one naturally considers 2023’s issues and events. The year will be most remembered for our…
Fulfilled Ighalo, MD I am currently in my second year of pediatric endocrinology fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas. I obtained my medical degree at…
Friedrich Wöhler (July 31, 1800 to September 3, 1882) and the Synthesis of Urea Submitted by Alan Rogol, MD Friedrich Wöhler was a German chemist who worked in both the…
Dr. Barry B. Bercu 1944-2023 Barry B. Bercu, M.D. died on Friday, November 24, 2023. Dr. Bercu, a pediatric endocrinologist long associated with the University of South Florida, was internationally…