Jerome M. Hershman, M.D., M.S., MACP is Distinguished Professor of Medicine Emeritus at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Director of the Endocrine Clinic at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center. He was the Editor of the journal Thyroid from 1991-2000 and now edits the online journal Clinical Thyroidology. He received a B.S. in chemistry from Northwestern University, M.S. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology, and M.D. from the University of Illinois School of…