Author
  John Lazarus is a Senior Lecturer in Medicine at the University of Wales College of Medicine in Cardiff, Wales and Honorary Consultant Physician to the Bro Taf Health Authority. After early research experience in the metabolism of antithyroid drugs he investigated the effects of lithium on thyroid physiology and disease. While working at Columbia University, New York, he was involved in the identification of the mitochondrial T3 receptor. In addition to publishing on many different aspects of clinical thyroidology he has been the head of the group investigating the clinical, immunological and physiological aspects of postpartum thyroid disease for the last 7 years and has authored over 150 scientific publications. He is currently the Secretary-Treasurer of The European Thyroid Association.


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Dr. John H. Lazarus, Dept. Medicine, UWCM,
Heath Park, Cardiff, Wales, U.K.
Tel: 01222-716900
Fax: 01222-712045