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Kenneth Burman, MD, Selected as President-elect of the American Thyroid Association Nov. 16, 2007—Kenneth D. Burman, MD, of Kensington, Md., was recently selected as president-elect of the American Thyroid Association (ATA) from 2007–2008. He will then serve a one-year term as president of the ATA board of directors in 2008–2009. “It has been a privilege to be a member of the ATA, my most valued and important society,” said Dr. Burman in his candidate statement. “I think our continued success as a society depends to a large degree on our ability to maintain and enhance our clinical and scientific interactions with various other disciplines and to attract young physicians and scientists to actively participate in the ATA. We must be the leaders in clinical, academic, social and political thought and action in matters relating to the thyroid and we must continue our relationship with patient-oriented advocacy groups.” Dr. Burman is currently chief of the Endocrine Section in the Department of Medicine at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC. He is also program director of the Integrated Georgetown University/ Washington Hospital Center Endocrine Fellowship Program and a professor in the Department of Medicine at Georgetown University and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Dr. Burman recently received the ATA’s 2007 Paul Starr Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to clinical thyroidology. His research efforts are focused on thyroid cancer, autoimmune thyroid disease and translational clinical thyroidology. Dr. Burman was honored with the ATA Van Meter Award in 1984. He is a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation, a master in the American College of Physicians and serves on the FDA’s Endocrine Advisory Board. An ATA member for 32 years, Dr. Burman has served on the board of directors and is currently on the editorial board of ATA’s journal, Thyroid. He was a local arrangements co-chair of the ATA Annual Meetings held in Washington, DC in 1987 and 2001. Dr. Burman has served as a member and chair of the ATA’s Public Health Committee and as a member of the Finance and Audit, Awards and Education Committees. Dr. Burman obtained his undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. and his medical degree from the University of Missouri. He took his Internal Medicine training at Barnes Hospital, Washington University and his Endocrine Fellowship at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. For more information, please contact the ATA at thyroid@thyroid.org. |
