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2024 Endocrine Society Election

President-Elect

Please note: The candidates’ bios may not appear in the same order as listed on the ballot.

Candidate for President-Elect
Carol Ann Lange
Carol Ann Lange

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Degree(s) and Year(s): BS (1985); PhD (1991)

Current Position:
Professor of Medicine (Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Transplantation) and Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Associate Director for Basic Science, University of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center

Principal Areas of Scientific/Medical Interest:
Steroid hormone action in breast and ovarian cancers, Mechanisms of cellular stress-induced signal transduction, cancer stem cell biology, cancer metastasis
 
Endocrine Society Service: (listed in alpha order by committee)
Annual Meeting Steering Committee (2003 - 2006)
Basic Science Task Force (2006 - 2011)
Molecular Endocrinology Editorial Board (2006 - 2008)
Scientific and Educational Programs Core Committee (2006 - 2009)
Annual Meeting Steering Committee (Basic Science Chair) (2007 - 2008)
Publications Core Committee (2010 - 2011), (Editor-In-Chief) (2011 - 2014)
Hormones & Cancer (Editor-In-Chief) (2013 - 2014)
Laureate Awards Committee (2013 - 2014)
Board of Directors (Vice President (Basic Sci)) (2014 - 2017)
Advocacy and Public Outreach Core Committee (Council Liaison) (2014 - 2015)
Executive Committee (Vice President Basic Science) (2014 - 2017)
Leadership Development Task Force (Chair) (2015 - 2015)
Publications Core Working Group (2015 - 2015)
Nominating Committee (2018 - 2021)
Endocrinology (Editor-In-Chief) (2020 - 2026)

Honors and Awards (Selection):
Women in Endocrinology Women’s Health Research Award (2001); American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award (2004-2008); Tickle Family Land Grant Endowed Chair in Breast Cancer Research; Roy O Greep Award for Outstanding Contributions to Endocrine Research (Endocrine Society Laureate Awards 2012); Sara Evans Award (University of MN 2012) for Outstanding Leadership in Science and Engineering; University of MN Mentor of the Year Award (2013); Council of Graduate Students Outstanding Faculty Award (2014); Ada Comstock Distinguished Women Scholars Award and Public Lecture (U of MN; 2014); Emerging Research Award (2015); 5th District Eagles (University of MN); U of MN Research Excellence Award (2016); NIH/NCI Up for a Challenge (U4C) Award (co-recipient with Chad Myers; 2016); Jensen Symposium Memorial Plenary Lecture (2018); Annette L. Boman Cancer Research Symposium KeyNote Lecture (2018); Sidney H. Ingbar Laureate Award for Distinguished Service to the Field of Endocrinology (Endocrine Society Laureate Awards 2020); American Cancer Society ResearcHers Legacy Award (2022); University of Minnesota Wall of Scholarship in recognition of highly cited work (2022); Masonic Cancer Center Excellence in Mentoring Award (2023).

List significant leadership commitment and involvement with other organizations, including organizations’ names and dates. Please list any leadership training skills.

I am a veteran trainer with nearly 25 years of teaching, mentoring, and leadership experience. My core strengths include my energy, enthusiasm, love of science, and extensive experience in promoting research excellence through exceptional mentoring and team building for original collaborative research projects that are exciting, innovative, and inter-disciplinary. In these roles, I have striven to raise awareness for the need to eliminate unconscious bias and promote respect, fairness, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Selected leadership local and national roles that demonstrate my qualifications and core competencies for the role of President Elect include:

LEADERSHIP & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING
01/13-14/2021 “Transforming Conflict into Collaboration” (AAMC Virtual Workshop)

Why do you want to serve in a leadership role and what leadership qualities do you possess to be successful? Please describe how you embody the required core competencies.

I deeply enjoy strategic thinking, team building, and helping others to be successful. My leadership accomplishments have a common thread of mentoring and career development.  I believe that leadership encompasses recognizing opportunity and building consensus that empowers talented people to connect and reach a common goal. Proactive leaders enable teams or organizations to do more together than can be accomplished alone. Leadership holds the unselfish vision that the success of others, both individually and as a collaborative group, is a measure of the success of the organization. In this highly competitive climate, there is an urgent need to ensure that our most talented Society members who are in training or newly entering professional life continue to be successful and make timely transitions as basic and translational scientists, clinician scientists, clinicians, and future leaders. We must also fully engage mid-career and established members to meet their specific needs as valued and vibrant contributors. I am driven to help promote a stimulating and rich environment that recognizes that everyone has something valuable to contribute, is culturally inclusive, diverse, respectful, and innovative. I believe I can contribute to and sustain our Society’s legacy of excellence as a President aimed at supporting and promoting member career-focused needs as well as our many shared interests. Together, we can enrich the environment of our Society and our field of endocrinology by nurturing our members at all levels, thereby ensuring a vibrant and diverse leadership pipeline for the Society and the field of Endocrinology as we embody the hormones-to-health mission.

Please identify 1 short term and 1 long term issue you see facing the profession and describe your perspective on how the Society should address these issues.

I believe we are facing a crisis of connection. Short-term, we are still emerging from the damages of prolonged isolation, restricted interactions and movements, halted/stunted collaborations, and supply chain shortages experienced post COVID pandemic. Our young people in training that required in-person/hands-on learning experiences were delayed, their activities in laboratories or clinics performed in isolation, truncated and/or reduced to simulation. All members have endured what will likely be one of the most challenging periods of their professional careers. We must find creative ways to reconnect. Recently, a young Faculty approached me at a small conference and said, “Dr. Lange, you probably don’t remember me, but ~12 years ago you had lunch with me at ENDO, and you told me about your career path. You inspired me to feel like I could really do this job, and here I am today after two fellowships leading my own lab. You have no idea of the impact you made on my career and my life!” I believe our long-term solution is also about connections. We can do more together. The most productive collaborations initiate organically. Our Society provides the perfect venue for connections that are life changing. Nurturing both spontaneous connections at ENDO and continuing to foster new strategic structured ways of bringing people together year-round should be our focus as we fully embrace limitless future opportunities. Leveraging this momentum through old and new connections found within and between our diverse interest groups will ensure a vibrant future that is filled with discovery.




Candidate for President-Elect
 Jenny Visser
Jenny Visser

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Degree(s) and Year(s): PhD, 1998

Current Position:
Associate Professor.  Head Laboratory of Metabolism and Reproduction at Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC.

Principal Areas of Scientific/Medical Interest:
Obesity and Reproduction (sex differences in obesity, genetic obesity, PCOS, AMH)

Endocrine Society Service: (listed in alpha order by committee)
Annual Meeting Steering Committee (2011 - 2014)
Endocrinology (2013 - 2019)
Scientific and Educational Programs Core Committee (Basic Science Chair) (2015 - 2016)
Annual Meeting Steering Committee (Basic Science Chair) (2015 - 2016)
Journal of the Endocrine Society (2016 - 2017)
Board of Directors (At Large) (2017 - 2019)
Research Affairs Core Committee (Board Representative) (2017 - 2019)
Strategic Plan Retreat (2017 - 2017)
EIC Search Committee for Endocrine Reviews (2017 - 2017)
EIC Search Committee for Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (2018 - 2019)
Communities of Practice Working Group (Chair) (2018 - 2020)
Nominating Committee (2019 - 2022), (Chair) (2020 - 2022)
Board of Directors (Ex Officio, NC Chair) (2020 - 2022)
COI Advisory Group (Ex Officio) (2021 - 2022)
Annual Meeting Steering Committee (Annual Meeting Chair) (2022 - 2023)
Early Career/DEI Reviewer advisor for the Endocrine Society Journals (2023 – present)

Honors and Awards (Selection):
- Young investigators award, Women in Endocrinology. 1997, 2003
 
List significant leadership commitment and involvement with other organizations, including organizations’ names and dates. Please list any leadership training skills.

European Society of Endocrinology:
- Co-chair and co-founder European Women in Endocrinology (EUWIN), European Society of Endocrinology (2022-present)
- Co-chair Focus Area Reproductive and Developmental Endocrinology, the European Society of Endocrinology (2020-present)
- Basic Science Chair, Program Organizing Committee, ECE2015, European Congress of Endocrinology (2014-2015)

ESHRE:
- Basic science officer, Special interest group (SIG) Reproductive Endocrinology, ESHRE, 2016-2019

National:
- member Program Organizing Committee of the Dutch Endo-Neuro-Psycho meeting, Doorwerth, The Netherlands. Including chair of NVE poster-price committee (2002-2004)

Erasmus MC:
- Executive Committee, Research Council, Clinical and Experimental Medicine initiative, Department of Internal Medicine, Rotterdam The Netherlands (2020-present)
- Steering committee Obesity Center CGG (Centrum Gezond Gewicht), Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2014-2018)
 
Leadership skills training:
- Female Career Development program, Erasmus MC, 2008
- Associate professor leadership program, Erasmus MC, 2016
- Visible leadership course, Erasmus MC, 2019
- Team-oriented leadership course, Erasmus MC, 2023
- Several (short) leadership training programs with the Endocrine Society

Why do you want to serve in a leadership role and what leadership qualities do you possess to be successful? Please describe how you embody the required core competencies.

The Endocrine Society is my main professional organization. This initially started by attending its annual meeting as a basic science graduate student, showing me how clinical and basic science can meet and strengthen each other. Later in my career I had the opportunity to become involved in the Endocrine Society by serving at several leadership roles, latest as chair of ENDO2023. This has given me an in-depth understanding of Endocrine Society’s core mission, governance and strategic plan. All combined, the Endocrine Society has been very influential on a professional level but also on a personal level. It allowed me to develop my leadership qualities and gain insight into governance. My vision and qualities have subsequently been recognized by my department, since I was asked to be a member of the Executive Committee of a new management structure aimed to strengthen research between basic and clinical researchers and tasked with daily management roles, and for which I developed the governance structure and bylaws. My interest to serve as President-Elect stems to give back to the Endocrine Society and help it remain and further grow as a strong global Society for the whole endocrine community. Throughout my various leadership positions, I have learned that I can lead a team with different leadership styles, different nationalities and cultures, be collaborative, solicit input from others and give others opportunities to take the lead. Furthermore, I am patient but when necessary be firm always keeping the end goal in mind and with respect to others.

Please identify 1 short term and 1 long term issue you see facing the profession and describe your perspective on how the society should address these issues.

Short term:
There is continuous discussion within the Endocrine Society how to best serve our basic science contingency. This remains important as funding is difficult and trainees opt for different career paths. Being a basic scientist myself at a clinical department, I strongly value the interaction between basic and clinical scientists and embody the bench-to-bedside and vice-versa approach. Rather than focusing on one contingency only, the Endocrine Society in my opinion is best positioned to strengthen the connection between basic and clinical researchers and physicians. This may also provide means to add additional benefits for basic scientists (particular trainees) beyond the annual ENDO meeting, which is equally important.

Long term:
Since the Endocrine Society aims to be an “innovative global community focused on improving patient care, shaping effective policy, and ensuring the future of our field” it is vital to be outward looking and embrace/liaise with new areas (new technologies/fields). However, the COVID pandemic and climate impact of (air)travel have made us more cautious of traveling. This poses a risk that it will become more difficult to attract these emerging fields to our Society (as we already noticed during the ENDO2023 planning), and thereby keeping our Society of interest, particularly for the next generation. Furthermore, keeping the global aspect of the Endocrine Society in mind, we need to think how we reach our international basic and clinical researchers and physicians. This requires the need to continue to build relationships with other (international) societies, even beyond endocrinology, to develop joined programs.