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NIH
Bethesda, Maryland
Dr. Karel Pacak is a tenured Chief of the Section on Medical Neuroendocrinology at Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, MD. He graduated summa cum laude from Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. He is recognized nationally and internationally for patient-oriented pheochromocytoma (PHEO) and paraganglioma (PGL) research programs. He and his colleagues described the role of a new HIF2A somatic mutation in the pathogenesis of paraganglioma, somatostatinoma, and polycythemia (Pacak-Zhuang syndrom). Apart from but in line with his life’s work, Dr. Pacak has skillfully applied his knowledge for the benefit of the greater good. He established a new series of international pheochromocytoma conferences (ISP), for which he has served as the president and principal organizer of the first conference in 2005. He has received distinguished awards and recognitions from the International Association of Endocrine Surgeons, Australian Endocrine Society, Irish Endocrine Society, PheoPara Alliance, the Gold Jessenius Medal from the Slovak Academy of Sciences, the Gold Medal from the Slovak Medical Society, Purkyne Medal from the Czech Medical Society, the Directors’ award from the NIH and NICHD, Yogesh C. Patel Memorial Lecture from McGill University, the Leon Sample Memorial Lecture from Yale University, Outstanding Clinical Endocrinologist Award from AACE (2018) and the Outstanding Clinical Investigator Award (2022) from the US Endocrine Society and Frontiers in Science and Distinction in Endocrinology fro AACE (2022). In 2021 he was elected a member of the Czech Medical Academy. He published over 600 articles on pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma. He served as Chair of the Adrenal Scientific Committee, AACE; Vice Chair of the Pituitary, Gonadal, Adrenal, Neuroendocrine Disease State Network, AACE; Chair of the Pituitary, Gonadal, Adrenal, Neuroendocrine Diseases Resource Center, AACE; the member of Annual Meeting Clinical Congress Program Committee, AACE, the Editorial Board Member of many journals.
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Thursday, November 17, 2022
3:15 PM – 3:55 PM EST