| Janusz A. Nauman, M.D., Ph.D. is professor of Medicine and head of the Department of Endocrinology, University Medical School, Warsaw, Poland. He is also head of the Department of Experimental Endocrinology, Medical Center of Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.Dr Janusz Nauman is a well-known endocrinologist with a special interest in thyroidology. His early work in 1967, concerning the determination of total and free triiodothyronine, attracted international attention. He authored around 200 scientific papers and his research area is related to the pathophysiology of the thyroid, thyroid hormone metabolism and mode of action. He has a special interest in Graves' disease and Graves' ophthalmopathy. Since 1986 he became involved in actions implemented in Poland after the accident in the Chernobyl nuclear power station. He shared responsibility for actions to protect the thyroid, resulting in administration of potassium iodine to about 19 million people in Poland, including all persons up to the age of 16 year. Since this time Dr Nauman served several times at temporary advisor to the World Health Organization and the International Atomic Energy Agency in matters concerning thyroid protection following nuclear accidents. Dr Nauman was twice a recipient of the Postdoctoral Foggarty Research Fellowship and worked at the Columbia University, New York, with Sidney C. Werner and at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, with J. Wolff. |
