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ESA Newsletter: April 2001

From the President

ESA President The ESA Council has worked hard to set the program for a busy year ahead. A Sponsorship Committee has been formed to co-ordinate and consolidate approaches to industry for corporate support and sponsorship of the Society’s educational and scientific meetings. The Committee will be chaired by Cathie Coulter. Members will include Ken Ho, Bruce Robinson, Patricia Crock (Chair, Seminar Committee), Leon Bach (Chair, Program Committee), Judith Clements (Chair, LOC for Annual Scientific Meeting 2001) and David Torpy (Convenor, Clinical Weekend 2001). Patricia Crock has put together an exciting program for the Seminar meeting in Newcastle, April 20–22, 2001. Organisation for this year’s Annual Meeting at Jupiter’s Casino on the Gold Coast, from September 9–12, is well on the way. The ESA and SRB will be meeting with the ADS, ADEA and ASSO. The Clinical Weekend will be held in association with APEG at the Nara Resort, Seaworld. Prof Jack Martin has accepted the Society’s invitation to be this year’s Harrison Lecturer.

The ESA has continued discussions, initiated last year, with the Japan Endocrine Society (JES) about ways to strengthen ties between the two Societies through a program of speaker exchange at scientific meetings. For the second year in a row, the JES extended an invitation to the ESA to send 2 scientists to their Summer Seminar. The ESA has put forward Drs Ray Rodgers and Judith Clements this year and will look into ways of developing this joint venture with a view of establishing an ESA-JES exchange speakers program for its future Annual Scientific Meetings.

Profs John Funder and Evan Simpson have been nominated to stand on Council of the US Endocrine Society. This is the first time that scientists outside North America have been nominated to the Council of the Endocrine Society. This reflects the reputation and standing of Profs Funder and Simpson in the international endocrine community. I call on ESA members of the Endocrine Society to exercise their voting right appropriately.

Ken Ho, ESA President
April 2001

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