George P. Chrousos#
| Membership Number: | 2813 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2010 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GREECE |
| Homepage(s): | http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/author.cgi?&link1=Search&link2=Search%20Results&AuthLastName=chrousos&AuthFirstName=&AuthMiddleName=&AuthMailnstName=&CountryID=-1&DisciplineID=0&id=1318 |
ISI Highlycited
Present and Previous Positions
- 2001- Professor and Chairman, First Department of Pediatrics and Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, Athens University Medical School, Children's Hospital Aghia Sophia
- 2010- Holder, UNESCO Chair on Adolescent Health Care
- 2002- 2004, Senior Investigator (part-time) and Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Pediatric and Reproductive Endocrinology Branch and Reproductive Biology and Medicine Branch (2005- ), National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH
- 1999- 2001, Chief, Pediatric and Reproductive Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH
- 1989 - 1999, Chief, Pediatric Endocrinology Section, Developmental Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, and Director, Pediatric Endocrinology Training Program, NICHD and Georgetown University
- 1981 - 1989, Senior Investigator, Developmental Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH
Fields of Scholarship
- glucocorticoid signaling system of the cell
- diseases of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis
- physiological and molecular mechanisms of stress
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Fred Conrad Koch Award, US Endocrine Society
- 2014 Award of Academic Excellence, The Alexander Onassis Foundation Scholars, Athens, Greece
- 2014 The George Papanicolaou Award, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
- 2013 Honorary Professor, The University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
- 2012 The Albert Struyvenberg Medal, European Society of Clinical Investigation, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- 2011 Constantine Moiras Award, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece
- 2011 Aristeion Bodossaki Prize, Bodossaki Foundation, Athens, Greece
- 2011 Kluge Chair in Technology and Society, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., USA
- 2011 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
- 2011 Personality of the Year Award, UNICEF Greek National Committee, Athens, Greece
- 2011 Distinguished Adjunct Professor, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA
- 2010 Member, Academia Europaea, London, UK
- 2010 Member, Institute of Medicine, The National Academies, Washington, D.C., USA
- 2010 Philip S. Hench Memorial Lecture, American College of Rheumatology, Atlanta, GA, USA
- 2010 UNESCO Chair on Adolescent Health Care, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
- 2010 Distinguished Visiting Professor, King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA
- 2009 Mortimer B. Lipsett Memorial Lecture, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
- 2008 Geoffrey Harris Award, European Society of Endocrinology, Berlin, Germany
- 2008 President of the European Society of Clinical Investigation, Utrecht, The Netherlands (2008-2011)
- 2008 Honorary Fellow (FRCP), Royal College of Physicians, London, UK
- 2006 Doctor Honoris Causa University of Ancona, Italy
- 2006 ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Biochemistry and Biology, ISI, Philadelphia, Pa. www.ISIhighlycited.com
- 2005 Master of the American College of Physicians (MACP), American College of Physicians
- 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award, The International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology
- 2003 Doctor Honoris Causa University of Liege, Belgium
- 2002 Sir Edward Sharpey-Schafer Medal, British Endocrine Societies
- 2001 ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Clinical Medicine, ISI, Philadelphia, Pa. www.ISIhighlycited.com
- 2000 Master of the American College of Endocrinology (MACE), American College of Endocrinology
- 1999 Novera Herbert Spector Award, International Society of Neuroimmunomodulation
- 1997 Hans Selye Award, Hans Selye Foundation
- 1997 Clinical Investigator Award, US Endocrine Society
- 1987 Richard Weitzman Award, US Endocrine Society
