Falls Church, Va. — April 10, 2012 — Former secretary/COO of the American Thyroid Association (ATA), Richard T. Kloos, M.D., has been appointed senior medical director of Veracyte, a molecular diagnostics company, where he will lead all thyroid product medical efforts. Dr. Kloos was Secretary/Chief Operating Officer of the American Thyroid Association (ATA) from 2007-2011, chaired the guidelines committee on Medullary Thyroid Cancerhttp://thyroidguidelines.net/medullary/taskforce and was a member of the guidelines committee for Differentiated Thyroid Cancer http://thyroidguidelines.net/revised/taskforce. As Secretary/COO of the ATA he served as chairman of the ATA Board of Directors and on the ATA executive committee.
Dr. Kloos is currently a professor of medicine in the divisions of Endocrinology and Metabolism, and Nuclear Medicine at The Ohio State University (OSU) and attending physician at The OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center and co-director of The OSU Thyroid Cancer Unit.
Dr. Kloos remarked on the “value of active participation in the scientific and social life of the ATA. Service to the ATA has allowed me to develop and demonstrate skills that translated into many settings and have benefited me in my daily life with patients, academics, and towards my new career direction in industry. I would highly recommend that others become passionately involved in their professional societies. I am grateful for the many opportunities that the ATA has given me, and I look forward to continuing my active ATA participation.”
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