Overview

The Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, and Nutrition continually strives to improve diagnosis and treatment options for people with a wide range of endocrine and metabolic diseases.

Our endocrinologists are actively engaged in research on the endocrine and metabolic systems in laboratory and clinical research programs. Our work includes research on:

• Adrenal and pituitary conditions.
• Diabetes and prediabetes.
• Endocrine regulation of metabolism and protein synthesis.
• Genetic predisposition to disease.
• Lipids.
• Nutrition.
• Obesity.
• Osteoporosis and calcium disorders.
• Pituitary, gonad and adrenal conditions.
• Thyroid cancer and other thyroid diseases.
• Transplantation.

We also conduct clinical trials of novel and emerging therapeutics.

Our work builds on a long and strong history in endocrine research. In 1914, not long after joining Mayo Clinic as head of the Section of Biochemistry, Dr. Edward C. Kendall became the first scientist to purify and structurally identify thyroxine, the principal thyroid hormone. In 1950, he and Dr. Philip S. Hench, a Mayo Clinic rheumatologist, received the Nobel Prize for identifying, isolating and synthesizing adrenocortical steroids — including cortisone — and introducing them as anti-inflammatory agents for the treatment of arthritis, adrenal insufficiency and other disorders.

Today, our researchers continue to advance the frontier of discovery. We work closely with colleagues in many specialties in a multidisciplinary approach to address patient needs. This includes experts in:

• Obstetrics.
• Ophthalmology.
• Otolaryngology.
• Radiation oncology.
• Surgery.
• Transplantation.

For patient care, Mayo Clinic's Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, and Nutrition is one of the largest such practices in the world, with locations in Arizona, Florida, Minnesota and several communities in Minnesota and Wisconsin through the Mayo Clinic Health System.