Biography

Dr. J. Larry Jameson is Irving S. Cutter Professor and Chairman of Medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He received an MD-PhD degree in 1981 from the University of North Carolina before performing clinical training in Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He rose through the faculty ranks at the Harvard Medical School to become Associate Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Thyroid Unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital before moving to Northwestern in 1993 as chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Molecular Medicine. Dr. Jameson is internationally recognized for his research, which has defined the genetic basis of more than a dozen different endocrine disorders that affect reproduction and thyroid gland function. He has published more than 200 scientific articles including reports in top-ranked journals such as the New England Journal Medicine, Nature Genetics, Science, and the Journal of Clinical Investigation, as well as several specialty journals in endocrinology. Dr. Jameson is the standard bearer for molecular medicine in the field of endocrinology. He is Co-Editor of the 4th edition of the authoritative text, DeGroot and Jameson’s, Endocrinology. His book, Principles of Molecular Medicine received the Best Health Science Book of 1998 award. He was recently appointed as an Editor for the 15th edition of Harrison’s, Principles of Internal Medicine and is an Editor of Harrison’s On-line. Dr. Jameson has trained more than 50 scientists, many of whom have risen to leadership positions endocrinology. He recently served the President of The Endocrine Society, an organization with more than 10,000 members. Dr. Jameson has been the recipient of several awards including the Oppenheimer Award from the Endocrine Society and the Van Meter Award from the American Thyroid Association, and has served as a Visiting Lecturer at leading institutions around the world. He has been elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation, Association of American Physicians, American Academy of the Arts and Sciences, and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Jameson is married to Michele Jameson and they have three children: Ryan, Christina, and James.

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