Dr. Hurley received his BA from Cornell University in Ithaca NY in 1957 and his MD degree from Cornell University Medical College in l961. In l961-62 he was an intern in medicine and in l962-64 an assistant medical resident at The New York Hospital. In l964-65 he was an Endocrine Fellow at Cornell University Medical College. He then entered the US Army. Between l965 and 1968 he was Chief of the Radioisotope Laboratory at the US Army 2nd General Hospital in Landstuhl, Germany and Consultant in Endocrinology, US Army, Europe. In l968 he returned to The New York Hospital Medical Center with a dual appointment as Assistant Professor of Medicine and Radiology. In addition to being an active member of the Division of Endocrinology in the Department of Medicine he also served as Associate Director of the Nuclear Medicine Division in the Department of Radiology. This situation allowed him to focus on the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid disease. One of his major responsibilities in Nuclear Medicine was to supervise radioiodine treatment of patients with hyperthyroidism and thyroid cancer. Over the years he estimates that he has treated over 4,000 patients with hyperthyroidism and over 800 patients with thyroid cancer. In 1999 he resigned his appointments in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine in order to devote more time to patient care and teaching.
Dr. Hurley is active in patient care and teaching. He sees only patients with thyroid disease and his special areas of interest are Graves’ disease, thyroid cancer, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and thyroid disease in pregnancy. His teaching includes medical students in the first and second years, medical house staff and endocrine fellows. He also lectures on thyroid disease to the Update Your Medicine course and at endocrine rounds in various institutions in the New York City area. He is active in the American Thyroid Association where he has served on many committees. He is reviewer for the medical journals Thyroid, the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism and the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. He as served as Consultant to US Army Europe for Radioisotopes and also for Endocrinology from 1965 –68. He went to Guatemala as Temporary Advisor to the Pan American Health Organization in l977 to investigate iodine-induced hyperthyroidism in Central America. He went to the Ukraine and Belarus in l990 as a participant in the International Chernobyl Project Health Impact Study under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the USSR in l990. He subsequently served on committees of the National Cancer Institute in l993 and 1994 to review scientific protocols for the study of thyroid cancer in the Ukraine and Belarus. His research interests are in the use of radioiodine to treat hyperthyroidism and thyroid cancer and in the long-term follow-up in patients who have been treated for these two conditions.
