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Kristien Boelaert is a Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Birmingham and a Consultant Endocrinologist at University Hospitals Birmingham. She is an active researcher in the field of thyroid diseases. She has published over 200 papers (H-index 49) and received more than £10 million in research grant funding. Kristien was the recipient of the inaugural Outstanding Clinical Practitioner Award from the Society for Endocrinology. She was the Clinical Lead for the NICE Guidelines on Thyroid Diseases and leads the National Consensus Statements on Management of Thyroid Cancer. She is a member of the RCOG Green-Top and the American Thyroid Association guideline panels on Thyroid Diseases in Pregnancy. Kristien is Senior Editor for the Journal of the Endocrine Society and Endocrine Connections. She serves on the Editorial Boards of several endocrine journals including Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Thyroid and Clinical Endocrinology. She is President of the British Thyroid Association, Chair of the Clinical Committee of the Society for Endocrinology and of the ATA Programme Organising Committee, and member of the SfE Council, the ETA Executive Committee and the RCP Specialist Certificate Examination Board.

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