Breezing Into the Windy City for ENDO 2026
While all of ENDO 2026 sessions are can’t miss events, certain ones almost always inspire certain passions among the attendees, and those are the debates! Former Endocrine Society president Stephen Hammes, MD, PhD, moderated the Endocrine Debate session “Low Testosterone in Obesity: Should We Treat or Not?” and Kelly Horvath has taken a deep dive in “To T or Not To T: Should We Treat Low Testosterone in Men with Obesity?” Joining Hammes to debate are Franck Mauvais-Jarvis, MD, PhD, professor of medicine, Price-Goldsmith Professor of Nutrition, Tulane University School of Medicine, in New Orleans, La., who argues for the treat side, while David Handelsman, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, of the ANZAC Research Institute at the University of Sydney, in Australia, argues the opposite. This session should prove important since this is a long overdue conversation and Hammes states that in his opinion, “there is no specific standard of care for low testosterone in obesity,” he says, “which is why this will be a wonderful debate as well as a great education session for the audience.”
Every year, so many new memories are made at ENDO so I thought it might be fun to hear from some Endocrine Society members about their most memorable annual meetings from the past. A dozen or so of your fellow endocrinologists shared with me their most meaningful ENDO memories in “Looking Back: Unforgettable Moments from ENDOs Past.” Not only have many of you found ENDO to be the highlight of your year as you comingle with thousands of like-minded people from all across the globe, but ins some cases ENDO has literally been life changing. Find out which future Endocrine Society president decided to become an endocrinologist once they attended their very first ENDO. No doubt, a few lives will be impacted forever by what they encountered at ENDO 2026 in Chicago!
Another significant highlight at every ENDO occurs when the Endocrine Society releases a new Clinical Practice Guideline and ENDO 2026 is no different; on Saturday June 14 a special session heralds the publication of “Central Precocious Puberty: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline.” Senior Editor Derek Bagley speaks to the guideline authors in “They Grow Up So Fast: Endocrine Society Releases Central Precocious Puberty Guideline” who discuss the new recommendations that will be elucidated on stage after its publication in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
Glenda Fauntleroy Shaw interviews this year’s Transatlantic Alliance Award winner, Anna L. Gloyn, DPhil, FMedSci, in “Cultural Exchange.” Having conducted research, literally, on both sides of the Atlantic, Gloyn talks about about what this award means to her, how a friend in college helped determine the future of her research, and the profound impact of doing research in both European and American labs. But, she says, the differences are more common AWAY from the bench, from her experiences: “The differences between labs in the U.K. and U.S. are not to do with the country you are in, they are to do with the lab culture which is set by the lab PI. That said, there are some obvious cultural differences,” she says. “I remember arriving as a post-doc fellow in Dr. Franz Matchinksy’s lab at the University of Pennsylvania and realizing that going to the pub for a beer after work on a Friday was a very British behavior!”
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