Dr Elizabeth Pearce

Dr. Elizabeth N. Pearce received her undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard and a masters’ degree in epidemiology from the Boston University School of Public Health. She completed her residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and her fellowship in endocrinology at Boston University. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine in the Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition. She is the President-Elect of the American Thyroid Association. She also serves as the North American Regional Coordinator for the Iodine Global Network. She recently co-chaired the American Thyroid Association’s Thyroid in Pregnancy Guidelines Task Force. Her research interests include dietary iodine, thyroid function in pregnancy, the thyroid effects of environmental disruptors, and the cardiovascular effects of subclinical thyroid dysfunction. Dr. Pearce was the 2011 recipient of the American Thyroid Association’s Van Meter Award for outstanding contributions to research on the thyroid gland.