George P. Chrousos
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George P. Chrousos is professor of Pediatrics and Endocrinology Emeritus and former chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the
Chrousos is among the 250 most prominent clinical investigators in the world. He has authored more than 1100 scientific publications, has edited 29 books and his work has been cited over 138,000 times. According to the ISI, he is the highest cited clinical pediatrician and endocrinologist in the world.[2] According to Google Scholar Citations he is in the list of 100 most cited scientists in the world, and his h factor is > 183.
Biography
Chrousos was born in
Research
Chrousos has focused his research on the
Publications
He has an outstanding record of over 1100 scientific papers, edited 29 books, including 2 popular electronic volumes and 2 encyclopedias, and his work has been cited over 138,000 times throughout the scientific literature. He is one of the most cited physician scientists in the world (Institute of Scientific Information, ISI highly cited) in the fields of "Clinical Medicine" and "Biology and Biochemistry". Dr. Chrousos’s published work has an h index of over 183. He has published his work in journals of the highest caliber, such as the
Teaching
He has helped develop the careers of over 60 young physicians and scientists, many of whom are now professors and chairpersons in Europe, the United States, Australia and Latin America, He directed training programs for physicians for many years. He taught at the University of Ioannina Medical School, Greece for 10 years (1980–1990). He has had visiting professorships and given prestigious and named lectures throughout the world.
Honors
- 2018 “The 2018 Litchfield Lecture”, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- 2018 Professor of Medicine Emeritus, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens
- 2018 Honorary Lifetime Member of the Hellenic Society for the Study of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Syndrome, Athens
- 2018 Honorary Award, 2018 Healthcare Business Awards, Athens
- 2018 Aristotle Gold Medal, International Society of Neurobiology and Psychoneuropharmacology, Kavala, Greece
- 2017 The “2017 Peter Heimann Lecture”, International Society of Surgery and International Association of Endocrine Surgeons, Basel, Switzerland
- 2017 Honorary President, Pediatric Society of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
- 2017 Honorary Professor, Xi’an Medical University, Xi’an, China
- 2016 Honorary Professor, St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, St. Petersburg, Russia
- 2016 “Herald of the Hippocratic Spirit”, Society for the Dissemination of the Hippocratic Spirit, Athens, Greece
- 2016 The 2016 Robert M Blizzard Presidential Lecture, Pediatric Endocrine Society, Baltimore USA
- 2015 The 2015 Richard Kvetnansky Lecture, Institute of Experimental Endocrinology, Slovac Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
- 2014 George Papanicolaou Award, University of Athens, Athens
- 2014 Award of Academic Excellence, Alexander Onassis Foundation Scholars, Athens
- 2014 Fred Conrad Koch Award, The US Endocrine Society[4]
- 2013 Honorary Professor, Warwick University, Coventry, UK
- 2012 UNICEF Award, National UNICEF Committee, Athens, Greece
- 2012 Albert Struyvenberg Medal, European Society of Clinical Investigation
- 2011 Constantine Moiras Award, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece
- 2011 The Bodossaki Aristeion Prize, Bodossaki Foundation, Athens, Greece ( https://web.archive.org/web/20110910235805/http://www.bodossaki.gr/Default.aspx?lang=2)
- 2011 John Kluge Chair in Technology and Society,[5] Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- 2010 Member, Academia Europaea [2], London, UK
- 2010 Member, Institute of Medicine [3], The National Academies, Washington, D.C.
- 2010 Philip S. Hench Memorial Lecture, American College of Rheumatology, Atlanta, GA.
- 2010 UNESCO Chair on Adolescent Health Care, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
- 2009 Mortimer B. Lipsett Memorial Lecture, NIH.
- 2008 Geoffrey Harris Award, European Society of Endocrinology
- Doctor Honoris Causa from the Universities of Liege, Belgium, Ancona, Italy, and Patras, Greece
- President of the European Society of Clinical Investigation
- Honorary Fellow (FRCP), Royal College of Physicians, London, UK
- Master of the American College of Endocrinology (MACE) [4]
- Master of the American College of Physicians (MACP),
- 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology
- 2002 Sir Edward Sharpey-Schafer Medal of the British Endocrine Societies
- 1999 Novera Herbert Spector Award of the International Society of Neuroimmunomodulation
- 1997 Hans Selye Award, Hans Selye Foundation
- 1997 Clinical Investigator Award,[6]
- 1987 Richard Weitzman Award, The US Endocrine Society [7]
Selected papers
- Chrousos, G.P., Gold, P.W. (1992). The Concepts of Stress and Stress System Disorders: Overview of Physical and Behavioral Homeostasis. JAMA 267:1244-1252. Journal of the American Medical Association [5]
- Chrousos, G.P. (1995). Seminars in Medicine of the Beth-Israel Hospital, Boston - The Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis and Immune-Mediated Inflammation. New England Journal of Medicine 332:20 1351-1362. [6]
- Gold, P.W., Loriaux, D.L., Roy, A., Kling, M.A., Calabrese, J.R., Kellner, C.H., Nieman, L.K., Post, R.M., Pickar, D., Galluci, W., Avgerinos, P., Paul, S., Oldfield, E.H., Cutler, G.B., Chrousos, G.P. (1986) Responses To Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone in the Hypercortisolism of Depression and Cushings-Disease - Pathophysiologic and Diagnostic Implications. New England Journal of Medicine 314:21 1329-1335 [7]
- Papanicolaou, D.A., Wilder, R.L., Manolagas, S.C., Chrousos, G.P. (1998) The Pathophysiologic Roles of Interleukin-6 in Humans. Ann. Intern. Med. 128:127-137. [8]
- Gold, P.W., Goodwin, F., Chrousos, G.P. (1988) Clinical and Biochemical Manifestations of Depression: Relationship to the Neurobiology of Stress. (Part I and Part 2) N. Engl. J. Med. 319: 348-353 and 319: 413-420. [9]
- Supplement: Selected Original and Review Papers
References
- ^ "George Chrousos Named to Kluge Chair in Technology and Society". Library of Congress.
- ^ "International Statistical Institute (ISI)".
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- ^ "endocrine-society-announces-2014-laureate-award-winners".
- ^ "chairs". Library of Congress.
- ^ "The US Endocrine Society, Endocr Rev. 1997 Aug;18(4):617-8".
- PMID 3301314.