Hershel Raff - F1000 Section Head (since 10 January 2005)
Department of Endocrinology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
BIOGRAPHY
Education:- 1975 B.A. Union College (Music with distinction in the Arts), Schenectady, NY
- 1981 Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD,
Postgraduate Training and Fellowship Appointments:
- 1980-1983 NRSA Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, California (in the laboratory of Dr. Mary F. Dallman)
Memberships in Professional and Honorary Societies:
- American Physiological Society
Program Advisory Committee (1989-92)
Steering Committee 1991 Fall Meeting
Long-Range Planning Committee (1996-98)
Publications Committee (2000-2003)
Chair, Task Force on Classic Papers (2002-2006)
- Endocrine Society
Advisory Panel, Endocrine News (1993)
Associate Editor, Endocrine News (1994-1998)
Development Committee (2000-2003); Chair (2001-2003); Ex officio (2003-2005)
Finance Committee (Ex-Officio 2001-2007)
Endo2003 Task Force on Cardiovascular Endocrinology Theme
Secretary-Treasurer Elect (2003-2004)
Council (Ex-officio 2003-2004; Voting 2004-2007)
Executive Committee (2003-2007)
Performance and Compensation Steering Committee (2003-2007, Chair 2004-2007)
Publications Oversight Committee (Ex-Officio 2004-2007)
New Initiatives Subcommittee (Ex-Officio 2004-2007)
Journals Management Subcommittee (Ex-Officio 2004-2007)
Journals Operations Subcommittee (Ex-Officio 2004-2007)
Publications Strategic Analysis Task Force (2005-2006)
Corporate Liaison Board (Ex-Officio 2003-2006)
Hormone Foundation Committee (Ex-Officio 2004-2007)
Secretary-Treasurer (2004-2007)
Chair, Androgen Assay Working Group (2005-2006)
Publications Core Committee (2007-2010)
Educational Publications Task Force, Chair (2008)
Trainee and Career Development Core Committee (2010-Present)
- Sigma Xi
- Council for High Blood Pressure Research (American Heart Association)
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
APS Representative to the Section on Biological Sciences (1999-2001)
Fellow in Biological Sciences (2005)
- American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, National Silver Member
- Alpha Omega Alpha – Honor Medical Society (Elected 2005)
Editorships:
- Associate Editor, American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative, and Comparative Physiology, 1993-1995
- Associate Editor, Endocrine News (a publication of the Endocrine Society), 1994-1998
- Faculty of 1000, Physiology, Head of the Endocrinology Section, 2004-Present
- Associate Editor, Advances in Physiology Education, 2005-2011
Editorial Boards:
- American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative, and Comparative Physiology
1986-1992 (Associate Editor 1993-1995), 1996
- American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology and Metabolism, 1988 1994
- Domestic Animal Endocrinology, 1993-1996
- Endocrinology, 2005-2008
- American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 2007-present
- UpToDate Peer Reviewer for Endocrinology, 2008-present