Susan J. Mandel, director of clinical endocrinology and diabetes for the University of Pennsylvania Health System, and a professor in the division of diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine, has been elected president-elect of the Endocrine Society. Dr. Mandel will officially begin her term in April 2017 and will take office as president in 2018.

“Having worked with Susan for nearly 20 years here at Penn, I have seen firsthand her leadership, commitment to education and clinical and research expertise,” said Mitchell A. Lazar, chief of the division of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism. “Susan has delivered first-class care to her patients year after year, and is well-established as an international expert in the diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer. She has also been an innovative leader of Penn’s training program for fellows in endocrinology and metabolism.”

Dr. Mandel is director of the fellowship program in the division of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism where she oversees and educates upwards of eight clinical and research fellows each year. She is associate chief of the division of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism and is director and creator of the Thyroid Nodule Clinic at Penn Medicine.