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Curriculum Vitae Professor Dr. Zvi Laron Name: Zvi Laron Born: 6 February 1927, Cernauti, Romania Academic and Professional Career since 1996 Professor (Emer.) of Pediatric Endocrinology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel since 1993 Director, Endocrinology and Diabetes Research Unit, Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel (SCMCI), Petah Tikva, 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, Tel Aviv University, 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 Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA 1952 Graduated Hadassah Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina www.leopoldina.org 1 Functions in Scientific Societies and Committees (Selection) 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 Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina www.leopoldina.org 2 2010 Endocrine Society / Pfizer Award 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 Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina www.leopoldina.org 3.