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Endocrinology

Julianne Imperato-McGinley, MD
Division of Endocrinology, Cornell University Medical College

Background research: Many articles on 5-alpha reductase deficiency which provided the foundation for the development of finasteride.

• Finasteride Study Group (for benign prostatic hyperplasia)
  • Investigator
• Finasteride Male Pattern Hair Loss Study Group
  • Investigator, Studies 047, 081, 087
• Paid consultant to Merck (disclosed in Vaughan 2002)
• Co-authors: Gormley, Stoner, Waldstreicher, Andriole, McConnell, Olsen, Roberts, Stough, Walsh, Whiting
• Selected papers
  • Imperato-McGinley 1990
  • De Schepper 1991
  • Gormley 1992
  • Moore 1995
  • Roberts 1999
  • Gormley 2002
  • Vaughan 2002

Roger Rittmaster, MD
Division of Endocrinology, Dalhousie University, Canada (1987– ~2005)
Clinical Development, GlaxoSmithKline (~2005–)

See details at GSK.