Dr. Daniel L. Hurley graduated from the University of South Dakota Medical School in 1980 and completed both his Internal Medicine Residency and Endocrinology Fellowship at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine. He was awarded the Randall G. Sprague Award for Outstanding Achievement as an Endocrine Fellow. In 1986, Dr. Hurley joined the Mayo Staff and is a Consultant in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism and Nutrition. In recognition by his peers, he was awarded the Henry S. Plummer Distinguished Physician Award from the Mayo Department of Medicine in 2005. 

Dr. Hurley is Associate Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. He was Director of the Endocrine Fellowship Program from 1992 to 1997. Dr. Hurley has been annually recognized for his excellence in teaching and received the Teacher of the Year Award from the Mayo Graduate School Residents and Fellows in 1992. Dr. Hurley has served as site co-director for Effective Communication-in-Healthcare (CIH) faculty in Rochester an executive member of the Mayo Program on Professionalism and Values at Mayo Clinic.

Dr. Hurley’s primary clinical interests are osteoporosis and metabolic bone diseases, outpatient nutrition/obesity and bariatric surgery, and hospital nutrition.  He has served as a past member of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN), and as a member and chair of the American Society of Bone and Mineral (ASBMR) Adult Bone and Mineral Working Group. Dr. Hurley was appointed to the United States President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition Science Board from 2014 to 2016.

Dr. Hurley is a charter member (1992) of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE), is a Fellow of the American College of Endocrinology (FACE) and has served as President of the MN-Midwest Chapter of AACE and on the national AACE Board of Directors from 2007 to 2020, to include being elected President of AACE from 2018-2019 and serving as AACE Chancellor from 2019 to 2020.