PRESIDENT'S UPDATE
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Robert C. Smallridge, M.D.
ATA President |
Dear ATA Colleagues,
Looking back over the past year, I recognize how fortunate I am to have the American Thyroid Association as my professional home, and I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to have served you, the members, as President. It has been an eventful year, with multiple guidelines published, with a successful Strategic Planning Retreat to refresh and update our vision for the future, and with the International Thyroid Congress this week. We serve as the host organization but once every 20 years, and so I was very pleased that the Congress is in North America this year.
My term nearing its completion has given me pause to reflect on the evolution of our organization. Bobbi Smith was kind enough to send me some records from the archives, and I would like to share with you a few observations about our history—THEN vs. NOW. In December, 1923, the Illinois Clinic Club, led by Dr. E. P. Sloan, created the American Association for the Study of Goiter with 30 charter members. Dr. Sloan was our first President, and there were more than 200 attendees at the first program meeting held in Bloomington, Illinois, the following month.
News from the 15th ITC and 85th Annual Meeting of the ATA
15th ITC and 85th Annual Meeting of the ATA News Releases
15th International Thyroid Congress Program and Meeting Abstracts – free access
New Guidelines for Managing Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer in Adults Published in Thyroid Journal
New, evidence-based recommendations from the American Thyroid Association (ATA) will help guide clinicians in managing patients with thyroid nodules, a common disorder that requires evaluation to distinguish benign nodules from malignancy, interpret biopsy results and molecular marker studies, and initiate risk assessment and cancer screening. The new ATA guidelines, which also focus on the diagnosis and management of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC), an increasingly prevalent form of cancer, are published in Thyroid, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers and the official journal of the ATA. The guidelines are available free on the Thyroid website.
2016 Dues Renewal Coming Soon
The ATA Board of Directors has approved maintaining the dues rate without an increase in 2016. We will continue the discount for paying early for Active Members. Watch your inbox for dues renewal via email in the next few weeks. Update Dues
ATA launches Website Redesign
The ATA website is now fully responsive in design. This means that the website is readable on your smartphone, your tablet and your computer. Please give us your feedback!
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