A huge congratulations to UCD School of Medicine's Associate Professor Carla Moran for being awarded the 2024 American Thyroid Association Van Meter Award.
The Van Meter Award Lecture, established in 1930, recognises outstanding contributions to research on the thyroid gland or related subjects. The award is given each year to an investigator who is not older than the age of 45 in the year of the award. The Van Meter award winner is kept secret until the time of the award lecture during the annual meeting. Dr Carla Moran is Consultant Endocrinologist and Associate Professor at University College Dublin and Beacon Hospital and St Vincent’s University Hospital.
In her presentation entitled “Advances in diagnosis, phenotyping and management of Resistance to Thyroid Hormone”, Dr Moran outlined her contributions to the understanding of discordant thyroid function testing, identification of novel phenotypes or forms of resistance to thyroid hormone, and her approach to management of these rare conditions.
This is the first time an investigator from Ireland has won this prestigious award.
Past recipients of the award can be found here.
About Dr Carla Moran
Carla Moran is a Consultant Endocrinologist at the Beacon Hospital in Dublin, St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin and is Associate Professor at University College Dublin. Dr Moran has a particular interest in thyroidology, having completed a thyroid fellowship and PhD in Cambridge, UK. Subspecialty areas of expertise include disorders of Thyroid Hormone action (such as Syndromes of Resistance to Thyroid Hormone), investigation of discordant TFTs and drug induced thyroid dysfunction.
Dr Moran has established a referral service for rare thyroid disease in Dublin and continues to perform research. She has published over 70 peer reviewed papers, book chapters and reviews, with a current H-index of 26. Dr Moran regularly contributes to international conferences as an invited speaker, is an invited member of UK & European guideline development committees for thyroid disease and has recently been elected to serve on the Executive Committee of the European Thyroid Association.