Joseph R. Tucci, M.D. ’59 – Distinguished Alumnus Award Recipient 2009
Joseph R. Tucci is Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University. He is the Director of the Division of Endocrinology in the Department of Medicine at Roger Williams Hospital and Director of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and Head of the Metabolic Bone and Mineral Unite at the Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence, Rhode Island.
Prior to coming to BUSM, he received his undergraduate degree at Brown University in Rhode Island. He completed his residency in medicine at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Boston. He did clinical and research fellowships in endocrinology and metabolism at Georgetown Medical Center in Washington, DC. and at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston.
Subsequently, he served in the U.S. Navy as a Commander and established an endocrine research laboratory to support and facilitate behavioral science studies at the Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.
He is Board Certified in internal medicine and in Endocrinology and Metabolism, a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and Fellow of the American Association of Endocrinologists, and Member of the Endocrine Society and American Society of Bone and Mineral Research.
He has authored more than 200 articles, abstracts, and book chapters on a variety of endocrine and metabolic disorders. He has lectured nationally on a variety of endocrine topics including and has been a Principal Investigator in more than 50 studies relating to osteoporosis, Paget’s disease of bone, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, and vitamin D therapy in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism and hypovitaminosis D.
The Alumni Association happily presented the Distinguished Alumni Award to Dr. Tucci on May 9, 2009, for his outstanding career in Endocrinology and Medicine.
