Editorial introductions

Abstract

Current Opinion in Endocrinology and Diabetes was launched in 1994, with Obesity added to the title in 2007. It is one of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The fields of endocrinology and diabetes are divided into 12 sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Journal's Editor-in-Chief and Section Editors for this issue. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Lewis E. BravermanLewis E. BravermanLewis E. Braverman is currently a Professor of Medicine in the Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition within the Department of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, Massachusetts, USA. He earned his undergraduate degree in Biology from Harvard University, his MD from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and an Honorary Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Parma, Italy. He completed an Internal Medicine Residency and Endocrinology Fellowship on the II-IV Medical Services and Thorndike Memorial Laboratory (Harvard), Boston City Hospital, USA. Dr Braverman has been the recipient of many National and International Awards, most recently the Jack Baskin, M.D. Teaching Award from the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, and has served the research community on many study sections and advisory committees. He has been a Principal Investigator on several key clinical and research studies as well as an invited presenter at numerous medical conferences, both nationally and internationally. Dr Braverman has published in many leading medical journals and is co-editor of a leading thyroid textbook, while being currently the Editor-in-Chief of Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity and Endocrine Practice. His research and clinical interests have focused on the physiology and pathophysiology of the thyroid. SECTION EDITORS Lynne L. LevitskyLynne L. LevitskyLynne L. Levitsky is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and Yale Medical School, USA. She received her pediatric training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA. She was trained in Pediatric Endocrinology at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. She was a pediatric endocrinologist at the Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, until 1990. She then came to Massachusetts General Hospital as Chief of the Pediatric Endocrine Unit and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Her research interests in carbohydrate metabolism span laboratory studies of transcriptional control of beta cell function, and a role as an investigator in the NIH-sponsored TODAY treatment study of type 2 diabetes in the young. She is a past President of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society. Christian WeberChristian WeberDr Christian Weber is a graduate of Hamburg University Medical School, Hamburg, Germany. He received his internal medicine training at the University of Mainz, Germany, and in Framingham, Massachusetts, at the MetroWest Medical Center. He was trained in Gastroenterology at Georgetown University in Washington DC and at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. He has been a staff gastroenterologist at Boston University Medical Center and at the Veteran Administration (VA) Boston Healthcare System since 1997. He holds academic appointments as Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, USA. Dr Weber was appointed Associate Chief and Clinical Director of Gastroenterology at the VA Boston Healthcare System in 2007. His research interests in neuroendocrinology span laboratory studies regarding molecular mechanisms of mammalian bombesin receptor regulation in cancer and obesity, and clinical investigations concerning acid secretory disorders and functional bowel disorders.