Award Biographies . . .
AACE Outstanding Clinical Endocrinologist Award Charles Kilo, MD, FACP, FACE, will be presented the AACE Outstanding Clinical Endocrinologist Award. Dr. Kilo is Professor of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine and was an endocrinologist in private practice. He is Chairman of the Kilo Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research Foundation. In 1972, Dr. Kilo and Dr. Joseph Williamson, Professor of Pathology, founded the Kilo Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research Foundation to raise money to support a research laboratory, education programs, and patient care at Washington University. Research at the Kilo Laboratory has contributed significantly to the understanding of how diabetes affects the body organs and to the development of medications and treatments that prevent microvascular, macrovascular and neurological complications. Drs. Kilo and Williamson were among the first to show that high levels of blood sugars were primarily responsible for the complications of diabetes and that control of blood sugar levels, high blood pressure and blood fats through diet, exercise and medications could delay or prevent complications. H. Jack Baskin, MD, Endocrine Teaching Award Lewis E. Braverman, MD, FACE, will be presented the H. Jack Baskin, MD, Endocrine Teaching Award. Dr. Braverman is currently a Professor of Medicine in the Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition within the Department of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center in Boston, MA. He earned his undergraduate degree in Biology from Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, and received his MD from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Dr. Braverman also received an Honorary Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Parma, Parma, Italy. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency and an Endocrinology Fellowship under the direction of the late Sidney H. Ingbar, MD, on the II-IV Medical Services (Harvard) and Thorndike Memorial Laboratory (Harvard), Boston City
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Hospital. Dr. Braverman has been the recipient of many National and International Awards, including those from the American Thyroid Association, The Endocrine Society, The German Endocrine Society, The Technion University School of Medicine (Haifa, Israel), the Thai American Physicians Foundation and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE). Outstanding Service Award for the Promotion of Endocrine Health of an Underserved Population Athena Philis-Tsimikas, MD, will be presented the Outstanding Service Award for the Promotion of Endocrine Health of an Underserved Population. Dr. Philis-Tsimikas was named Corporate Vice President for the Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute, La Jolla, CA, in May of 2008 after the integration of the institute with their parent corporation, Scripps Health. Prior to that time, she led the institute and subsidiary corporation, The Whittier Institute for Diabetes, as the Executive Director and Chief Medical Officer since 2004. Dr. Philis-Tsimikas served as a clinical endocrinologist on the staff of the Scripps Clinic Medical Group for seven years in the Division of Diabetes and Endocrinology from 1994 to 2001. She has also served as an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Diego for the past 16 years in the Division of Endocrinology/ Diabetes and Metabolism. In 1997, she assisted in establishing the community wide, nationally recognized diabetes program, Project Dulce as its founding medical director. Outstanding Service Award for the Promotion of Endocrine Health of an Underserved Population Enrique Caballero, MD, will be presented the Outstanding Service Award for the Promotion of Endocrine Health of an Underserved Population. Dr. Caballero is the Director of the Latino Diabetes Initiative, Director of Medical Affairs of Professional Education, Staff Endocrinologist and Clinical Investigator at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, MA. He is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Caballero developed the Joslin Latino Diabetes Initiative that was launched in the summer of 2002.