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
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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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