George J. Kahaly, M.D., is Professor of Medicine and Endocrinology/Metabolism
at the Gutenberg-University Medical School and works at the Gutenberg-University
Hospital, Mainz, Germany, where he is executive senior physician of the
Department of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism, and chief
of the University endocrine outpatient clinic. His clinical work has mainly
focused on endocrine and metabolic disorders.
Current research interests are autoimmune endocrine disease (e.g. Graves' ophthalmopathy), glycosaminoglycans in endocrine autoimmunity and diabetic angiopathy, iodide and thyroid autoimmunity, pathophysiology of endemic goitre, bioavailaibility and pharmacokinetics of iodine compounds, cardiac features in patients with resistance to thyroid hormone, as well as cardiorespiratory involvement in patients with endocrine and metabolic disorders. He serves as regular reviewer for American (JCEM, Thyroid, Clin Immunol Immunopathol), as well as European (Eur J Endocrinol, J Endocrinol Invest, Clin Endocrinol) journals. He organized and cochaired many international scientific meetings on:
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