AACE Rising Star in Endocrinology

Juan P. Brito, MD

Juan P. Brito, MD

Dr. Brito is an endocrinologist and professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He is the director of the Shared Decision Making National Resource Center at Mayo, the Quality Chair in the Division of Endocrinology, the principal investigator at the Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, and a guideline methodologist for the Endocrine Society. He is the principal investigator of two R01 grants from NIH and co-investigator of multiple grants from AHRQ and PCORI. His research describes the magnitude of the global epidemic of thyroid cancer diagnosis and its overtreatment, the use of L-thyroxine in the United States, and current treatment trends for Graves' disease. He has over 200 peer-reviewed publications and has recently received the 2021 Early Career Investigator Award from the Endocrine Society and the 2022 Van Meter Award from the American Thyroid Association.