of collaborators and trainees and expresses high regard and gratitude for their collaboration.

Formerly married to Susan Shipman Cryer, Cryer married Carolyn Havlin-Cryer in 1994. Their blended family includes five children---Philip Clifford Cryer, Justine Laurel Cryer Dugan, Anthony Victor Havlin, Krista Victoria Havlin, and Rebecca Elizabeth Havlin Eberhart---and six grandchildren---Kacy Elizabeth Cryer, Benjamin Philip Cryer, Matthew Philip Dugan, Emma Inez Dugan, Mollie Breanne Havlin, and Max Havlin Eberhart. At the time of his retirement from Washington University in St. Louis in 2014, Cryer was greatly honored by the decision of the William and Elaine Wolff Family, including their son Gary Wolff, to endow the Philip E. and Carolyn E. Cryer Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism Chair at Washington University in St. Louis.

Albeit as a listener and no longer aperformer, Cryer is a fan of the tight, four-part harmony of barbershop quartet singing, a classic American art form; he even knows the meaning of the acronym SPEBSQSA! He also enjoys nonmedical reading, mostly of histories and biographies, and counts the American writer and humorist Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens, 1835--1910) and the British mathematician, philosopher, and social critic Bertrand Russell (1872--1970) among his favorite authors. Indeed, Cryer frequently prefaces his lectures with a quote from Russell's *The Conquest of Happiness*, first published in 1930: "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important" ([@B60]).

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In closing, work championed by Cryer and others clearly established the legitimacy of a syndrome of functional autonomic failure, defective glucose counterregulation, hypoglycemia unawareness, and