Dr. Elizabeth Pearce of the Boston University School of Medicine and a member of the ICCIDD Board of Directors, delivered the prestigious Van Meter Award lecture at the 81st annual meeting of the American Thyroid Association. The award recognizes "outstanding contributions by a young researcher" in thyroid gland research. Pearce was also recently elected to the ATA Board of Directors.

Pearce's Van Meter Award Lecture was entitled "Iodine, Environmental Thyroid Disruptors, and the Cardiovascular Effects of Hypothyroidism."