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The Mayo Clinic

1998; Oxford University Press; Volume: 83; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1210/jcem.83.10.5147

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Michael Brennan, K. Miner, Robert A. Rizza,

Healthcare Systems and Technology

The Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN) is a physician-led, multispecialty, highly integrated, academic medical center.It is the largest entity within the Mayo Foundation, which includes clinics in Jacksonville, FL; Scottsdale, AZ; and the Mayo Health System, which comprises clinics and hospitals that provide a network of community-based physicians in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa.The establishment of endocrinology as a discipline at Mayo can be traced back to Dr. Henry Plummer, whose many contributions included the introduction of iodides in the preoperative management of Graves' disease, and to Nobel laureate Dr. Edward Kendall, who isolated T 4 and went on to discover cortisone.Since those early days, the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nutrition has continued to evolve, so that today with 36 clinical endocrinologists and 2 career scientists, it is the third largest of the 14 divisions that comprise the Department of Medicine.This contribution to the journal series Profiles of the Endocrine Clinic will attempt to outline the clinical activities of the Endocrine Division at Mayo, which will serve to emphasize the important role this discipline plays in a modern medical center.