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Prof Wilmar M. Wiersinga MD, PhD,
is head of the Division of Endocrinology of the Department of Internal Medicine of the
Academical Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is an internationally recognized authority on many fundamental and clinical aspects of the thyroid gland. His clinical research has touched almost all aspects of the thyroid including amongst others, analysis of thyroid function in health and disease, study of goiter, hyper- and hypothyroidism, Graves'ophthalmopathy, non-thyroidal illness, interaction of pharmacological agents with thyroid function parameters, thyroid hormone metabolism, thyroid auto- immunity, but also clinical aspects of the endocrine system other than the thyroid. His fundamental research is mainly concerned with the pathogenesis of Graves' ophthalmopathy and thyroid hormone receptors. Prof Wiersinga has numerous publications in international journal and textbooks and serves on the editorial boards of several scientific journals. He is a frequently invited speaker at international thyroid and other endocrine meetings. He is a long-term member of the European- and American Thyroid Association and other international scientific bodies. He served on the Executive Committee of the European Thyroid Association (ETA) and other international committees. He organized the Annual Scientific Meeting of the ETA in Amsterdam in 1996 and as President of the Amsterdam Thyroid Club was central in organizing several international meetings in Amsterdam. Dr Onno Bakker PhD, is head of the Research Laboratory of the Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Academic Centre Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Dr Bakker is a molecular biologist and had 3 years postgraduate training at the Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories in London UK, where he worked on sex hormone regulated gene expression. After he took his position in Amsterdam, his work can be divided into four major subjects: clinical immunological aspects of thyroid disease, Graves' opthalmopathy, regulation of metabolism of thyroid hormone (especially during illness) and most prominent the nuclear thyroid hormone receptors. Dr Bakker, is a member of the European Thyroid Association and publishes regularly in international scientific journals and textbooks.
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