Jerome M. Hershman, MD, MS
Professor of Medicine
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine
Associate Chief, Endocrinology and Diabetes Division
Department of Medicine
West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC)
Los Angeles, California
Jerome M. Hershman, MD, MS is professor of medicine at the University of California
- Los Angeles School of Medicine, associate chief of the Endocrinology and
Diabetes Division at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, and director of
its Endocrine Clinic. He received a bachelor of science degree in chemistry
from Northwestern University, a master of science degree in chemistry from
the California Institute of Technology, and a doctorate of medicine from the
University of Illinois School of Medicine in Chicago.
He was a resident in internal medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and
the Boston VA Hospital, and trained in endocrinology at the New England Medical
Center. Dr. Hershman was a faculty member in the Department of Medicine at Northwestern
University for three years, then at the University of Alabama in Birmingham
for five years before moving to UCLA in 1972. He was editor of the journal Thyroid
from 1991-2000.
Dr. Hershman has authored more than
300 research papers in endocrine literature and written many authoritative
book chapters and reviews about thyroid function
and disease. His current research focuses on the cell biology of thyroid
cancer and the management of thyroid diseases.
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