PRESIDENT
Professor Matthew Gillespie, Ph.D.
Director
Prince Henry's Institute
Block E Level 4
246 Clayton Road
Clayton, VIC 3168
Tel: 61 3 9594 4372
Fax: 61 3 9594 6125
Email: matthew.gillespie@princehenrys.org

Matthew Gillespie graduated in Microbiology from Monash University, and did postdoctoral training at the Centre for Cancer and Transplantation at The University of Melbourne. He was awarded an Australian Post-doctoral Fellowship (NHMRC) on joining Jack Martin’s Bone Program in 1988. He has been continually supported by the NHMRC (RD Wright, and Research Fellow) during his career. He heads the Bone, Joint and Cancer Unit at St. Vincent’s Institute. His research is focussed on actions of factors derived from breast cancers, and their relevance to breast cancer metastasis in bone, and how T cell-derived cytokines impact upon the formation and resorption of bone. He has authored over 120 publications.

• Associate Director of St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research
• Associate Professor, Department of Medicine SVH, The University of Melbourne
• Principal Research Fellow of the NHMRC
• Board member of the International Bone and Mineral Society
• Member of Research Council and of the NHMRC
• Member of Council and of the Science Advisory Committee of the Cancer Council of Victoria
• Member of Science Policy Committee of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
• Past President of the Australian Society for Medical Research (1999), and Director (1995-1999)
• Editorial board member of: Arthritis and Rheumatism, Bone, Endocrinology, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research
• Member of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (1989-)
• Member of ANZBMS (1999-)
• Member of the International Bone and Mineral Society (1999-)
• Member of the European Calcified Tissue Society (2002-)
• Member of the Australian Society for Medical Research (1988-)

PRESIDENT ELECT
Prof Markus J. Seibel MD PhD FRACP FGABJD
Bone Research Program
ANZAC Research Institute and Concord Hospital
University of Sydney
Sydney NSW 2139
Tel: 61 2 9767 6109
Fax: 61 2 9767 7472
Email: mjs@anzac.edu.au

Current appointments:
Chair of Endocrinology, The University of Sydney
Director, Bone Research Program, ANZAC Research Institute, Sydney
Head, Dept. of Endocrinology & Metabolism, Concord Hospital, University of Sydney

Scientific Involvement and Other Responsibilities:
Executive:
Co-President, 1st Interdisciplinary Osteoporosis Symposium, Basel, CH, 1995
Chairman, Working Group on Biochemical Markers of Bone Metabolism, American Society for Bone & Mineral Research, 1995-2002, 2008- present
Board of Directors, German Academy of Bone and Joint Sciences, Berlin
Board of Directors, German Patients’ Society for Osteoporosis
Speaker, Expert Group Osteoporosis, 1999-2001
Speaker, German Working Group on Osteoporosis, 1997 – 2001
Steering Committee, Baltic Bone Conferences, Sweden, 1998-2001
Board of Directors, Association of German Speaking Scientific Societies for Bone Diseases, 1999-present
President, German Academy of Bone and Joint Sciences, 2000-2001
President, 2nd Symposium on Osteoporosis, Heidelberg, Germany 2000
President, 4th Baltic Bone Conference 2001
Member, POC, Annual Scientific Meetings of the ANZBMS, 2004 - 2005
Member, Board of Directors, The Institute of Bone & Joint Research, 2007 -
Executive Committee, Concord Clinical School (Finances), Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, 2007 –

Ordinary:
Member, Scientific Adv. Board, Intl. Osteoporosis Foundation, 1997 – 2004
Member, Intl. Program Committee, European Calc Tissue Soc., 1999 - 2000
Member, Professional Practice Committee, ASBMR, 2000 - 2003
Member, Scientific Org. Committee, World Congress on Osteoporosis, 2004
Member, Working group for guidelines on osteoporosis management, RACGP and Australian Government, 2005 –
Member, Medical & Scientific Committee, Osteoporosis Australia, 2005 –
Medical Editor, National magazine Osteoblast, 2007 –
GRP Selector, Musculoskeletal Dis. & Arthritis, Grant Assigner, NHMRC 2008
Member, Organising Committee, XII Annual Meeting of the Cancer and Bone Society (CABS) 2008- 2009

Editorial Board Member: J Bone Mineral Research, J Clin Endocr Metab, Clin Endocrinol, Calc Tissue Intl, Clin Laboratory, Akt. Rheumat, J Osteoporosis.

Research interests:
Basic and clinical research into bone health and biology: Development and application of novel biochemical markers of bone metabolism; Biology of cancer metastases to bone; Effects of steroid hormones on bone health; Osteoporosis.
Research has been continuously funded through competitive grants from agencies such as the DFG, NIH, NHMRC, Cancer Council, German Cancer Foundation, Inter­national Osteoporosis Foundation, the NSW government, the Commonwealth Institute and others.

Over 250 scientific contributions, co-editor of 6 books (e.g. “Dynamics of Bone & Cartilage Metabolism”, 2nd ed., Academic Press, 2006.

TREASURER
Dr Gethin Thomas
University of Queensland Diamantina Institute
Princess Alexandra Hospital
Woolloongabba QLD 4120
Tel: 61 7 3176 2755

Email: gethin.thomas@uq.edu.au

HONORARY SECRETARY & NEWLETTER EDITOR
A/Prof Gerald Atkins
University of Adelaide
Bone Cell Biology Group
Discipline of Orthopaedics & Trauma
North Terrace
Adelaide SA 5000
Tel: 61 08 8222 3054
Fax: 61 08 8232 3065
Email: Gerald.atkins@adelaide.edu.au

COUNCIL MEMBER
A/Prof Nicholas Pocock MB BS, MD, FRACP
St Vincent’s Hospital
Dept of Nuclear Medicine
Victoria Street
Darlinghurst NSW 2010
Tel: 61 02 8382 2216
Fax: 61 02 9361 2619
Email: n.pocock@unsw.edu.au

Nicholas Pocock graduated in medicine from Sydney University in 1978. In 1987 he became a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Physicians and in 1989 gained his Doctorate in Medicine. He is currently a Senior Staff Specialist in the Department of Nuclear Medicine at St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst and Associate Professor at the University of NSW. Dr Pocock’s work has resulted in membership of many working parties and clinical advisory groups to State and National medical and Government bodies. He has over 70 publications in peer reviewed national and international medical journals.

COUNCIL MEMBER
Dr Mark Bolland
Bone & Joint Research Group
University of Auckland
Department of Medicine
Private bag 92019
Auckland
New Zealand 1142
Tel: 64 9373 7599
Email: m.bolland@auckland.ac.nz

COUNCIL MEMBER
Clinical Professor Charles A Inderjeeth
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
Rehab & Aged Care
Hospital Avenue
Nedlands WA 6009
Tel: 08/9346 3333
Fax: 08/9346 2811
Email: charles.inderjeeth@health.wa.gov.au

COUNCIL MEMBER
A/Prof Natalie A. Sims PhD
St Vincents Institute
41 Victoria Parade
Fitzroy VIC 3065
Tel: (03) 9288 2555
Fax: (03) 9416 2676
Email: nsims@svi.edu.au

Current appointments:
NHMRC Senior Research Fellow
Co-Director, Bone, Joint and Cancer Unit, St. Vincent ’s Institute.
Research Fellow, Department of Medicine at St. Vincent’s Hospital, The University of Melbourne

ANZBMS involvement:
Chair, Local organizing committee, ANZBMS Annual Scientific meeting 2008
Chair, Local organizing committee, ANZBMS meeting at ASBMR 2010
ANZBMS Research committee, 2005 to present
Organiser, ANZBMS at ASBMR dinner, 2004

Scientific Involvement:
Executive:
Steering Committee, International Bone and Mineral Society (IBMS)/Japan Society for Bone and Mineral Research (JSBMR) joint meeting, Tokyo 2013
Ordinary:
Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR), 1989 to present
ASMR Medical Research Week Committee, 2000 to 2004
Australia and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society, 1990 to present
American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, 1994 to present
International Society of Bone Morphometry (ISBM), 1994 to present
International Bone and Mineral Society (IBMS), 2000 to present
Member, NHMRC Grant review panel, 2006-2007

Editorial: Editorial Board of Bone, 2007-present.

Research Interests:
Intercellular signaling between the cells of bone, including osteoblasts, osteocytes and osteoclasts as well as interactions with haemopoesis, with a particular focus on gp130 signalling within these cells. I have authored 54 peer-reviewed publications and 6 book chapters. I am recognized internationally as an expert in histomorphometric analysis of small animal models and discovery of novel therapeutic pathways.

Interest in serving on ANZBMS Council:
To improve support for PhD students and early career scientists from both basic science and clinical research backgrounds including those within Australia and New Zealand and those wishing to return. To improve collaboration (particularly cross-disciplinary collaboration) between the many excellent bone research groups in Australia and improve our competitive position in the bone field internationally. To maintain the excellent standard of our scientific meetings.

COUNCIL MEMBER (Past President)
Professor Rebecca S. Mason, MBBS, PhD
Department of Physiology F13
University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW 2006
Tel: (02) 9351 2561
Fax: (02) 9351 2510
Email: rebeccam@physiol.usyd.edu.au

Rebecca Mason is a medical graduate from The University of Sydney. After hospital service, her PhD studies on clinical applications of vitamin D metabolite assays were undertaken in the Bone and Mineral Laboratory of Professor Sol Posen at Sydney Hospital. With the award of an NHMRC Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship, she moved with the Bone and Mineral Group to Royal North Shore Hospital in 1983, where she also served as a Clinical Assistant at Endocrine Outpatients and as a Clinical Tutor. In 1988, she was appointed to a Lectureship in the Department of Physiology and became Head of Physiology in 2002 and Professor of Endocrine Physiology in 2007, though still retains a position with Endocrinology and Cancer Genetics at RNSH.

Her research interests include the regulation of bone turnover and mechanisms of osteoporosis and the role of vitamin D in protection from sunlight. The link between bone and skin is Vitamin D. She has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research and on National Health and Medical Research Council Grant Review Panels for Endocrinology and Reproduction, and Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Medicine. She is a member of the Technical Committee of the Commission Internationale de L’Eclairage (International Commission of Illumination) on Sunlight, Health and Vitamin D. She serves on a committee updating Clinical Guidelines for melanoma prevention and management for the National Health and Medical Research Council.

She is Professor and Head of Physiology and Deputy Director of the Bosch Institute. For the Faculty of Medicine, she served as Associate Dean (Curriculum) and Chair of the University of Sydney Medical Program Committee from 2002-7.