Curriculum Vitae Professor Dr. Zvi Laron

Name: Zvi Laron Born: 6 February 1927, Cernauti,

Academic and Professional Career since 1996 Professor (Emer.) of Pediatric , Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv

University, since 1993 Director, Endocrinology and Diabetes Research Unit, Schneider Children’s

Medical Center of Israel (SCMCI), , Israel since 1985 Head, WHO Collaborating Center for the Study of Diabetes in Youth

1983 - 1997 Incumbent of the Irene and Nicholas Marsh Chair in Endocrinology and Juvenile

Diabetes, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, , Israel

1958 - 1992 Director, Institute of Pediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology, Beilinson Medical

Center, Petah Tikva , Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

1956 - 1957 Research and Clinical Fellow in Pediatrics, Massachusetts, General Hospital

and , Boston, USA

1952 Graduated Hadassah Hebrew University Medical School, , Israel

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2005 European Group of the History of Diabetes Mellitus Founding Member since 1999 Member, Israel Ministry of Health Committee on Adolescents

since 1998 Member of the National Committee for Growth Standards

1998-2000 Member of the Local Advisory Board, European Association for the Study of

Diabetes (EASD) - Meeting 2000 since 1997 Member of the National Council for Child Health, Israel

1995 - 1998 Founding Member & Coordinator, Pediatric Endocrinology Mediterranean Study

Group (PEMS)

1993 - 1996 President, ISPAD

1992 - 1998 Council Member, GRS

1992 Founding Member, Society of Growth Hormone Research (GRS)

1989 - 1993 Founder and First Coordinator of COPES (Coodination Office for Pediatric Endocrine

Societies)

1988 - 1989 President, ESPE since 1985 Head, WHO Collaborating Center for the Study of Diabetes in Youth since 1979 President, Israel Growth and Development Association

1974 - 1979 Secretary General, ISPAD

1974 Founding Member, International Study Group of Diabetes in Children and

Adolescents (ISGD) / presently ISPAD (International Society for Pediatric and

Adolescent Diabetes)

1966 - 1967 President, ESPE

1961 Founding Member, European Society of Pediatric Endocrinology (ESPE)

Honours and Awarded Memberships (Selection)

2011 Recipient of the Human Growth Foundation (USA) Award

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2009 Israel Prize awarded by the State of Israel in recognition for contributions in

the field of pediatric endocrinology and diabetes

2008 Knight, First Class of the Order of the White Rose of Finland awarded by the#

President of the State of Finland

2007 Award of Honor and Merit – Israeli Society of Pediatric Endocrinology

2007 Award of Merit, Israel Endocrine Society

2001 Recipient of the Endocrine Society (USA) Clinical Investigator Award

2000 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Rumania

2000 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Novara, Italy

2000 Awarded Diploma of Distinguished Visitor of the City of Acapulco de Juarez

Guerrero, Mexico

1999 Honorary Member, Dominican Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition

1999 Andrea Prader Prize – ESPE (European Society of Pediatric Endocrinology)

1998 Doctor Honoris Causa conferred by the University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Iuliu

Hatieganu”, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

1998 Honorary Member of the Slovenian Pediatric Society

1998 Natan Neimann Medal, Faculty of Medicine, University of Nancy, France

1998 Centennial Medal, Italian Pediatric Society

1996 Honorary Member, Hungarian Pediatric Society

1995 Honorary Member of the Medical and Scientific Academy of Romania

1993 Award of Merit conferred by ISPAD (International Society for Pediatric and

Adolescent Diabetology)

1993 Award of Merit conferred by the Korean Pediatric Society

1993 Honorary Citizenship and Medal, City of Montpellier, France

1988 Member, Elected Member, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

1982 Paul Langerhans Medal and Memorial Lecture, German Diabetes Association

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