Serdar E. Bulun

It is with pleasure that I introduce this month's guest editor, Serdar E. Bulun, M.D. As has been my privilege in the past year, I have selected a former trainee from my fellowship program.

Dr. Bulun obtained his medical degree in Istanbul, Turkey. He completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. At that time I recruited Dr. Bulun to join our fellowship program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He joined the faculty as an assistant professor and initiated his career focusing on a critical enzyme regulating the formulation of estrogens: aromatase.

Dr. Bulun left Dallas in 1999 to become Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Molecular Genetics, and Director of Reproductive Endocrinology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Recently he has joined Northwestern University in Chicago to serve as Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Head of the Section of Reproductive Biology Research at that institution.

For the past 10 years of a relentlessly busy academic career, he has won several honors, including multiple prize paper awards at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the Society for Gynecologic Investigation. He has received several grant awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has served on editorial boards and NIH Study Sections, has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles, and has been an invited guest speaker at many national and international meetings.

Dr. Bulun's career has focused on aromatase, specifically related to endometriosis. He has recruited several outstanding investigators in the field of aromatase. This issue should serve as a classic review for investigators and students of reproductive medicine.