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Gary D. Hammer, M.D., Ph.D. @garydouglashammer.bsky.social · Sep 6

After 30 hrs of travel each way .......Crazy but wonderful 36 hrs in Kolkata India for Annual meeting of Endocrine Society of India. Spectacular meeting of friends & colleagues the world over - sharing science & medical knowlege which have no boundaries. A bonus was a tour of this historic city.

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Gary D. Hammer, M.D., Ph.D. @garydouglashammer.bsky.social · Sep 1

Privileged interview with Levan Alavidze of Medscriptum.org at the 2025 Georgia Assoc of Endocrinology & Metabolism meeting on crisis brewing in medicine & need for connection, leaning into vulnerability & presence to find your own authentic voice, your purpose, your passion.

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Gary D. Hammer, M.D., Ph.D. @garydouglashammer.bsky.social · Aug 28

• Takes a tribe to build a culture of caring, purpose & passion

• Takes people to build a tribe

Congrats! @umich.edu Chris Kennedy & Jen Wlosnek for receiving Vander Award - Teaching Excellence & Williams Award - Service Excellence. Leadership is a verb & deep in the marrow of these two

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Gary D. Hammer, M.D., Ph.D. @garydouglashammer.bsky.social · Jul 29

Honored to participate in @esicon2025.bsky.social meeting to share latest research & care guidelines for the two adrenal extremes: adrenocortical carcinoma & adrenal failure. See you soon in Kolkata India

Anish Kar @anish-endo.bsky.social · Jul 29

Honoured to have Dr Gary Hammer @garydouglashammer.bsky.social join us to share his insights on adrenal cancer and adrenal insufficiency... #ESICON2025 bids you a warm welcome to #Kolkata, the City of Joy!

esicon2025.bsky.social @esicon2025.bsky.social · Jul 29

ESICON 2025 is honoured to have Dr. Gary Hammer (USA), global expert in Adrenal Cancer & Adrenal Insufficiency.

Register Now: rxregistrations.com/esicon2025/
📍 Join us at ITC Royal Bengal, Kolkata | 4–7 Sept 2025

#ESICON2025 #Endocrinology #AdrenalCancer #MedicalConference

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Gary D. Hammer, M.D., Ph.D. @garydouglashammer.bsky.social · Jul 28

Congratulations Yulan & team on securing the August 2025 cover of Nature Reviews Endocrinology - @uofmichigan.bsky.social @umichmedicalschool.bsky.social

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Gary D. Hammer, M.D., Ph.D. @garydouglashammer.bsky.social · Jul 20

Ahhh - this is great to see & warms the heart!!! One of the originals indeed !!!!!! Missed you at #Endo2025

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Gary D. Hammer, M.D., Ph.D. @garydouglashammer.bsky.social · Jul 20

Congratulations Dr YULAN CHU on successfully and masterfully defending your PhD thesis in Cell & Developmental Biology at @uofmichigan.bsky.social Go Yulan! Go Adrenal! Go Blue!! Onward & Upwards!!

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Gary D. Hammer, M.D., Ph.D. @garydouglashammer.bsky.social · Jul 15

So exciting to see the 10+ yr maturation of our outstanding network - over 50 institutions across 4 continents: @a5-adrenal.bsky.social 2025 meeting has begun - directly following the outstanding @endocrinesociety.bsky.social #ENDO2025 meeting

Adrenophiles sharing great science to advance care.

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Gary D. Hammer, M.D., Ph.D. @garydouglashammer.bsky.social · Jul 15

@lmfendo.bsky.social at @endocrinesociety.bsky.social #ENDO2025 presents new data on modifier genes in paraganglioma-pheochromocytoma from GWAS studies with close to 2000 tumor samples from @a5-adrenal.bsky.social teams around the globe. New targets, new biology. Hope for new therapies!

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Gary D. Hammer, M.D., Ph.D. @garydouglashammer.bsky.social · Jul 15

What a great ADRENAL symposium to help close out @endocrinesociety.bsky.social #Endo2025. Pathogenesis, Metabolism and the Microenvironment in Paraganglioma-Pheochromocytomas.

Hans Ghayee, @lmfendo.bsky.social & Judith Favier

Leading the way with emerging biology and future therapies

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Gary D. Hammer, M.D., Ph.D. @garydouglashammer.bsky.social · Jul 15

Good timing: Yulan’s review with lab colleagues on adrenocortical stem cell niche published during @endocrinesociety.bsky.social #ENDO2025 and on the eve of her PhD defense.

Nature Reviews Endocrinology @natrevendo.nature.com · Jul 15

In this Review, Yulan Chu and colleagues outline the mechanisms that regulate the establishment and maintenance of the adrenal stem cell niche within the adrenal cortex under different physiological and pathological conditions (£) go.nature.com/4lYi3Ek #EndoSky

On the left, an illustration of a human body with organs. In the center, a zoom-in showing the adrenal gland. On the right, a zoom-in of the adrenal gland showing its internal structure in more detail.

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Lauren Fishbein @lmfendo.bsky.social · Jul 15

Great session. Great cases. Great panel
#ENDO2025 #adrenal @endocrinesociety.bsky.social

Lauren Fishbein @lmfendo.bsky.social · Jul 14

Complex and challenging adrenal cases with great experts: Dr Anand Vaidya, Dr Carmen Solorzano and Dr Tobi Else with Dr Bill Young as moderator. Can’t get much better! #ENDO2025 I 💜 adrenal! @a5-adrenal.bsky.social
@endocrinesociety.bsky.social

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Gary D. Hammer, M.D., Ph.D. @garydouglashammer.bsky.social · Jul 14

@uofmichigan.bsky.social Endocrine Oncology Program’s own Katherine Wolf presents experience using immunotherapy in adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC). Go Katherine!! Go @a5-adrenal.bsky.social, Go Blue!!!!

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Gary D. Hammer, M.D., Ph.D. @garydouglashammer.bsky.social · Jul 14

@endocrinesociety.bsky.social 2025: Gavel has been passed. President John Newell-Price hands baton to incoming President Carol Lange

Thank you John. We remain in great hands with Carol as #ENDO2025 near completion

Onward & Upwards all

Participate
Educate
Advocate
Communicate
Elevate

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Gary D. Hammer, M.D., Ph.D. @garydouglashammer.bsky.social · Jul 14

Innovative Approaches to Obesity Care: Molecules to Society here at #ENDO2024 with our @endocrinesociety.bsky.social Plenary speakers Fatima Cody Stanford and Jens Juul Holst. SOBERING data / PROMISING solutions.

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Gary D. Hammer, M.D., Ph.D. @garydouglashammer.bsky.social · Jul 14

Get ready for Day 3 of @endocrinesociety.bsky.social #ENDO2025 . HORMONES IN THE HEADPHONES playing here in Hall E as we get ready for Plenary Session. And a big shoutout to Society CEO
Kate Fryer and Elizabeth Kan who make the Society purr…… Let’s go !!!

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Gary D. Hammer, M.D., Ph.D. @garydouglashammer.bsky.social · Jul 14

@endocrinesociety.bsky.social
2025 Transatlantic Alliance Award winner Professor Ashley Grossman, FMed. Sci. at #ENDO2025 presenting “A Rush of Adrenaline” - a journey through past, present and future. Outstanding talk reviewing remarkable career of collaborative work across Atlantic.

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Gary D. Hammer, M.D., Ph.D. @garydouglashammer.bsky.social · Jul 13

Then off to dinner with @endocrinesociety.bsky.social leaders from my time on the “Board of Directors” and Executive team. Quite a night with Joy Wu, Ghada ElHajj, Dale Abel, Susan Mandel & Dolores Shoback
Love this meeting #ENDO2025 ……onward into Day 2!!!!

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Gary D. Hammer, M.D., Ph.D. @garydouglashammer.bsky.social · Jul 13

Next: UCSF reunion with my adrenal mentors Blake Tyrrell & Paul Fitzgerald — & “fellow” 1994-1997 “fellows” Peter Sklarin & Tom Baranski. Not pictured are 2 other UCSFers & Endo Society leaders Dolores Shoback & fellow Society past president Steve Hammes (UCSF Endocrine fellow 1995-1998)

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Gary D. Hammer, M.D., Ph.D. @garydouglashammer.bsky.social · Jul 13

After an amazing day 1 at @endocrinesociety.bsky.social #ENDO2025 - a night to remember here in San Francisco

First : hanging with my most recent trainee - postdoctoral fellow @katiejbasham.bsky.social now doing amazing work as faculty at University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute

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Gary D. Hammer, M.D., Ph.D. @garydouglashammer.bsky.social · Jul 13

Wow!! Great work presented at @endocrinesociety.bsky.social #ENDO2025 by @katewarde.bsky.social from @katiejbasham.bsky.social lab at @huntsmancancer.bsky.social at University of Utah on androgen-dependent immune-mediated risk reduction in adrencocortical carcinoma.

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Gary D. Hammer, M.D., Ph.D. @garydouglashammer.bsky.social · Jul 13

Outstanding talk here at @endocrineoncology.bsky.social #ENDO2025 on adrenal Cushing genomics by University of Michigan adrenal team member Juilee Rege here at #ENDO2025. Go Juilee, Go Blue, Go @A5-Alliance

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Gary D. Hammer, M.D., Ph.D. @garydouglashammer.bsky.social · Jul 12

Amazing @endocrinesociety.bsky.social Presidential Plenary talks at #ENDO2025 on state of science in genomic medicine by Professor Sir Mark Caulfield & Professor Nancy Cox followed by a fireside chat with both. Wonderful way to start premier global meeting of endocrine scientists & clinicians.

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Gary D. Hammer, M.D., Ph.D. @garydouglashammer.bsky.social · Jul 12

Let’s go!!!
@endocrinesociety.bsky.social President John Newell-Price, MD, PhD, FRCP - opens #Endo2025 with a call to action

Participate
Educate
Advocate
Communicate
Elevate

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Gary D. Hammer, M.D., Ph.D. @garydouglashammer.bsky.social · Dec 3

Might just be the best managerie of hormonally-charged scientists ever assembled……

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