John Wass MD, FRCP

Professor Wass is a Professor of Endocrinology at Oxford University and was the Head of the Department of Endocrinology at the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, Churchill Hospital Oxford, UK until 2011. From 1989 he was Professor of Clinical Endocrinology and Sub-Dean, the University of London at Bart’s. He founded and ran the Oxfordshire Osteoporosis Service in 1995. John Wass is currently the Clinical Reference Group Chair for Endocrinology in the UK.

He was President of the European Federation of Endocrine Societies from 2001-2203 and was Chairman of the Society for Endocrinology (2006-2009). He was awarded the Distinguished Physician of the Year Award by the American Endocrine Society, the first non-American to ever receive this award Elected Academic Vice President of the Royal College of Physicians London in 2012 he has chaired the Royal College of Physicians Working Party ‘Action on Obesity: Comprehensive Care for All’ published in January 2013. John Wass presented the BBC documentary ‘The Fantastical World of Hormones’, which was aired in March 2014.