New Board Members Elected to American Thyroid

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Newswise -- The American Thyroid Association (ATA) will install the new members of its Board of
Directors during the ATA's 84th Annual Meeting, October 29th - November 2nd, in Coronado,
California. Current President-Elect Robert C. Smallridge, M.D., will become the new ATA president,
as Hossein Gharib, M.D., completes his term as president. Antonio Bianco, M.D., Ph.D., will become
the new cold feet hypothyroidism president-elect, and Victor J. Bernet, M.D. accepts the position of
secretary/COO-elect. Joining the Board are three new directors: Julie Ann Sosa, M.D., Christine
Spitzweg, M.D., and M. Regina Castro, M.D.

Incoming ATA President Bob Smallridge is Professor of Medicine and former Chair, Endocrinology
Division, at Mayo Clinic Florida. He is Deputy Director, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, and the Alfred
D. and Audrey M. Petersen Professor in Cancer Research. He is a retired Colonel in the U.S. Army
and served as Director, Department of Medicine, at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research,
Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and Consultant
in Endocrinology to the Attending Physician for the U.S. Congress and Supreme Court. Dr.
Smallridge has served as Treasurer of the ATA (1988-1993) and, most recently, as Chair of the
Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer Guidelines Task Force (2009-2012).
President-elect Tony Bianco is the Charles A. Weaver Professor of Medicine, Executive ViceChairman of the Department of Medicine, and Chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Secretary/COO-elect Vic Bernet is Chair of the
Division of Endocrinology at the Mayo Clinic in Florida.
New ATA Director Julie Ann Sosa is Professor of Surgery and Medicine (Oncology) at Duke
University, where she serves as the Leader of the Endocrine Neoplasia Diseases Group at the Duke
Cancer Institute and the Duke Clinical Research Institute, as well as Chief of Endocrine Surgery and
Director of Health Services Research in Surgery. Christine Spitzweg is Professor of Medicine and
Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Ludwigs-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich,
Germany. Regina Castro is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and
Consultant in Endocrinology at Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota.
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The American Thyroid Association (ATA) is the leading worldwide organization dedicated to the
advancement, understanding, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of thyroid disorders and thyroid
cancer. ATA is an international membership medical society with over 1,700 members from 43
countries around the world. Celebrating its 91st anniversary, the ATA delivers its mission -- of being
devoted to thyroid biology and to the prevention and treatment of thyroid disease through excellence
in research, clinical care, education, and public health -- through several key endeavors: the
publication of highly regarded professional journals, Thyroid, Clinical Thyroidology, and
VideoEndocrinology; annual scientific meetings; biennial clinical and research symposia; research
grant programs for young investigators, support of online professional, public and patient

educational programs; and the development of guidelines for clinical management of thyroid disease
and thyroid cancer. The ATA promotes thyroid awareness and information through its online Clinical
Thyroidology for the Public (distributed free of charge to over 11,000 patients and public
subscribers) and extensive, authoritative explanations of thyroid disease and thyroid cancer thyroid
cold feet in both English and Spanish. The ATA website serves as the clinical resource for patients
and the public who look for reliable information on the Internet.
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