Author
	Jack H. Oppenheimer, M.D. is a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Postdoctoral training was received among others at the Boston City Hospital, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was appointed Assistant Professor in 1966, Associate Professor in 1969, and Professor of Medicine in 1973 at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, NY), Professor of Physiology and Professor of Medicine in 1976, Cecil J. Watson Professor of Medicine in 1986, Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroanatomy in 1990, and Professor Emeritus in 1997 at the University of Minnesota (MN). Dr. Oppenheimer has been Head of the Division of Endocrinology at the Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center (Bronx, NY) from 1968-76, and Head of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of Minnesota from 1976-1993. He received many prizes, including the Van Meter Award (1965), the Parke-Davis Distinguished Lectureship Award (1983), and the Distinguished Service Award (1992) of the American Thyroid Association (ATA). Dr. Oppenheimer has also been president of the ATA (1985-86).