| P. Reed Larsen, M.D. is a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. After receiving postdoctoral training at the National Institutes of Health he served on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine for five years. In 1974 he moved to Boston as Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Head of the Thyroid Division at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. He was promoted to Professor of Medicine at Harvard in 1981 and was an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute between 1975 and 1991. Dr. Larsen's primary research interests are the physiological role of triiodothyronine, the regulation of its production, the molecular mechanism of thyroid hormone action, and the detection and treatment of congenital hypothyroidism. He has published extensively on both basic and clinical aspects of these subjects. He has received a number of prizes and lectureships including the Van Meter Award and the Parke Davis Distinguished Lectureship of the American Thyroid Association, the Merck Prize of the European Thyroid Association, and the Clinical Endocrinology Trust Medal of the United Kingdom for distinguished contributions to Endocrinology. He has also served as President of the American Thyroid Association and Chairman of the Endocrinology Study Section of the National Institutes of Health. He is the co-author with Professors Leslie DeGroot and Georg Hennemann of the Sixth Edition of The Thyroid and Its Diseases and a co-editor of the Ninth Edition of Williams' Textbook of Endocrinology. |
