PRESIDENT
Professor Philip Sambrook
Institute of Bone & Joint Research
Level 4, Building 35, Royal North Shore Hospital
St Leonards, NSW 2065
Tel 02 99267281
Fax 02 99061859
Tel: (02) 9926 7281
Fax: (02) 9906 1859
Email: sambrook@med.usyd.edu.au

• Florence & Cope Professor of Rheumatology, Royal North Shore Hospital, University of Sydney
• Memberships: ASBMR, IBMS, ARA, ANZBMS
• Publications: 170 peer reviewed articles, 70 chapters/reviews, 3 books
• Honors: Vice President, Asia Pacific Osteoporosis Foundation (APOF);
• Society Participation: Member, ANZBMS Council, 1993-1997, 2003-2005; Member of the Committee of Scientific Advisors of the International Osteoporosis Foundation, 2002-2006; IBMS Council Member 2007-2009;
• IBMS Board of Directors; Osteoporosis Australia Board Member;
• Editorial Boards - Osteoporosis International, Journal of Rheumatology, Clinical Rheumatology, Balliere’s Best Practice & Research in Rheumatology, and Journal of Bone & Mineral Research
• Professional Interests: epidemiology and genetics of osteoporosis; glucocorticoid and post transplant osteoporosis.
  

PRESIDENT ELECT
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.

TREASURER
Professor Roger Price
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
Department of Medical Technology & Physics
Nedlands, WA 6009
Tel: (08) 9346 2866
Fax: (08) 9346 3466
Email: price@cyllene.uwa.edu.au

• Head, Department of Medical Technology & Physics, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth
  
• Adj. A/Prof. in Dept of Physics, University of WA
  
• Adj. A/Prof. in Department of Medical Imaging, Curtin University
  
• Member of the Australia & New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society (ANZBMS)
  
• Member of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists & Engineers in Medicine
  
• Member of the American Society for Bone & Mineral Research
  
• Member, International Bone & Mineral Society
  
• Member, International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD)
  
• Certified Clinical Densitometrist (CCD) ISCD
  
• Research Affiliate in Bioengineering, Forsyth Dental Institute, Boston

HONORARY SECRETARY
Professor Matthew Gillespie, Ph.D.
Director
Prince Henry's Institute
Block E Level 4
246 Clayton Road
Clayton, VIC 3168
Tel: (03) 9594 4372
Fax: (03) 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-)

COUNCIL MEMBER
Dr Peter Nash MBBS (Hons) FRACP
Director
Rheumatology Research Unit
Po Box 368
Maroochydore
Sunshine Coast, QLD 4558
Tel: (07) 5443 1033
Fax: (07) 5479 2141
Mob: 0411 073 232
Email: pnash@tpg.com.au

Positions held:

• Senior Lecturer, Department of Medicine , University of Queensland
• Chairman , Therapeutics Committee , ARA
• Therapeutics Committee, ANZBMS
• Chairman, Bone & Joint Decade, Qld
• Past ARA Committees -Education & Training, Quality Assurance,
• International Steering Committee GRAPPA

Memberships - ANZBMS ASBMR ARA BSR
Publications - 40 papers peer reviewed journals , 6 chapters
Interests - Metabolic Bone Diseases, Novel therapeutics

COUNCIL MEMBER (Newsletter editor)
Professor Nicola (Nick) Fazzalari PhD
Division of Tissue Pathology
Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science
Hanson Institute
Frome Road
Adelaide, SA 5000
Tel: (08) 8222 3269
Fax: (08) 8222 3293
Email: nick.fazzalari@imvs.sa.gov.au
Bone & Joint Research Laboratory website

Research interests focus on understanding the effects of musculoskeletal disease, injury, ageing, and repair on joint and tissue function. The work is distinguished by its multidisciplinary approach; include morphometric, molecular, biomechanical and mathematical analyses.

• Head of the Bone and Joint Research Laboratory.
• Member of the Australian and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society, 1995-present.
• Program Organising Committee for the Australian and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society Annual Scientific Meeting, 2001-2003.
• Member of the Orthopaedic Research Society, 1994-present.
• Member of the Australian and New Zealand Orthopaedic Research Society, 1996-present.
• Member of Council of the Australian and New Zealand Orthopaedic Research Society, 2006-present.
• Member of the International Bone Morphometry Society Scientific Advisory Board, 2002-present.
• Member of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, 2004-present.
• Member of the International Society for Fracture Repair, 2005-present.
• Member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Fracture Repair, 2006-present.
• Editorial Board member of the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 2007-present.
• Editorial Board member of the Journal of Experimental Biology and Medicine, 2007-present.

COUNCIL MEMBER
A/Professor Mark Kotowicz
University of Melbourne
Department of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences
Barwon Health
PO Box 281
Geelong, VIC 3220
Tel: (03) 5226 7972
Fax: (03) 5222 2420
Email: markk@barwonhealth.org.au

COUNCIL MEMBER
Dr Tim Cundy
Department of Medicine
Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences
University of Auckland
Auckland, 1001
New Zealand
Tel: +64 9 373 7599 x 89796
Fax: +64 9 3367 7146
Email: t.cundy@auckland.ac.nz