Office Bearers and Council
PRESIDENT
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Associate Professor Natalie Sims
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St Vincents' Institute Associate Director, St. Vincent’s Institute, Melbourne, Australia Assoc. Prof. Natalie Sims directs the Bone Cell Biology and Disease Unit at St. Vincent’s |
TREASURER
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Associate Professor Nathan J. Pavlos
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Head, Cellular Orthopaedic Laboratory Tel:+61-8-9346-2083 Associate Professor Nathan Pavlos completed his PhD at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The University of Western Australia in 2005. He was a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Pathology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis USA and carried out his post-doctoral training in the Department of Neurobiology at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Gottingen, Germany as a NHMRC CJ Martin (Biomedical) Research Fellow (2007-2010). He returned to UWA in 2010 and currently heads the Cellular Orthopaedic Laboratory within the Centre for Orthopaedic Research. His research interests include deciphering the molecular machinery of bone cells with particular emphasis on bone-resorbing osteoclasts. His current research is supported by the NHMRC and he has been a past recipient of several local and international awards including the Roger Merlick Young Investigator Award (ANZBMS), Webster Jee Young Investigator Award (ICHTS) and Raine Research Prize. Current appointments: Scientific Involvement: |
HONORARY SECRETARY
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Associate Professor Paul H Anderson
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Head, Musculoskeletal Biology Research and BioTest Facility Associate Professor Paul Anderson is Head of the Musculoskeletal Biology Research Laboratory and BioTest Facility at the School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences and runs a pre-clinical musculoskeletal assessment facility providing research for the government and private-sector. Paul's broad area of research and expertise is in the development of strategies for preventing and treating bone diseases and fractures. His activity includes investigations in to the nutritional, hormonal and molecular control of bone health; clinical trials of fracture prevention and healing; and novel anabolic and anti-microbial orthopaedic medical devices. His research in the field of endocrinology includes the identifying novel therapeutic activities of vitamin D in bone health, as well as cancer prevention and improved pregnancy outcomes. Professional Membership: Australia and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society; Australian Society for Medical Research; American Society for Bone and Mineral Research; International Society of Bone Morphometry; Adelaide Bone Group Council ; Alliance of Research in Exercise, Nutrition and Activity; Healthy Development Adelaide. Scientific Involvement (selected): Australian Health and Medical Research Congress Committee (2012); Bone Health Foundation Research Advisory Committee (2014 -); Clare Bone Valley scientific meeting organising committee (2012 -); NHMRC Panelist: ('09, '10, '13, '14, '16, '17, '18) |
COUNCIL MEMBER
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Professor Allison Pettit
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Mater Research Institute-UQ Dr Pettit is a Senior Research Fellow leading the Bone and Immunology Research Group at Mater Research Institute-UQ. Her current research activity examines the complex and diverse interactions between bone and immune cells (osteoimmunology). This work is based on her research team’s discovery of osteal tissue macrophage (osteomac) and demonstration of their contributions to bone homeostasis and repair. Extensions of this work that are also being actively investigated include osteomac/macrophage regulation of hematopoiesis and involvement in cancer metastasis in bone. She completed a PhD in 2000 at The University of Queensland’s Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research and subsequently undertook postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School before returning to Australia. She has contributed over 50 original scientific publications spanning areas of immunology, arthritis, bone biology, osteoporosis, transplantation, cancer and stem cell biology. She has been awarded numerous fellowships and distinctions throughout her career and has a strong track record in research higher degree supervision and academic service. |
COUNCIL MEMBER
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Professor Jillian Cornish
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University of Auckland Professor Cornish leads the Skeletal Biology Research Group in University of Auckland, New Zealand. Dr Cornish’s group investigates factors that are anabolic to bone cells, cartilage and tendon cells for which they hold international patents. The group has established numerous in vitro and in vivo models in skeletal biology and developed a keen interest in skeletal regenerative medicine. She has received prestigious awards, including the 2014 Paula Stern Achievement Award, (American Society of Bone and Mineral Research) and 2014 Career Achievement Award, (Australia and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society) and she has served on editorial boards and boards of the International Bone and Mineral Society, International Society of Bone Morphometry and is a past-president of Australia and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society. |
PRESIDENT-ELECT
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Professor Mark Forwood
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Griffith University Gold Coast Professor Forwood was appointed as the Foundation Chair of Anatomy at Griffith University in 2009, and Head, School of Medical Science in 2013. His laboratory studies skeletal adaptation, mechanotransduction and bone quality, funded by grants from National Health and Medical Research Council. He was a NHMRC Fellow at Indiana University with David Burr and Charles Turner at IUPUI from 1991-1994. Following his Fellowship, Prof Forwood returned to the The University of Queensland, where he continued his research in skeletal biology and taught gross and musculoskeletal anatomy. His laboratory continues to study skeletal biology, bone remodeling in fracture repair and optimisation of sterilisation conditions for bone allografts. Prof Forwood has been continually funded by NHMRC from 1996-2017. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the International Bone and Mineral Society until 2017, the Editorial Board of Bone and a section editor for Current Osteoporosis Reports. In 2016, he was elected as a Fellow of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
COUNCIL MEMBER
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Professor Mark Cooper
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University of Sydney, Anzac Research Institute Mark Cooper is Prof of Medicine and Head of Medicine at the Concord Clinical School, University of Sydney. He heads the Adrenal Steroid Lab at the ANZAC Research Institute. Until 2012 he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK. and metabolic bone physician at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, one of the largest orthopaedic hospitals in Europe. His clinical and research interests include adrenal steroid physiology and metabolic bone disease. In particular, he examines the role that glucocorticoid metabolism plays in normal physiology, inflammatory arthritis and glucocorticoid induced osteoporosis. He was previously the Bertram Abraham’s Lecturer in Physiology at the Royal College of Physicians of London. He has served on committees for the ASBMR and ECTS. He continues to combine a clinical practice with a basic/translational research group. |
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Associate Professor Rachel Davey
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Associate Professor Rachel A Davey, PhD Associate Professor Rachel Davey completed her PhD in Physiology at The University of Adelaide in 1998, studying the effects of estrogens and androgens on bone cell metabolism. Associate Professor Davey is currently Head of the Molecular Endocrinology and Musculoskeletal Research Group in the Department of Medicine, Austin Health at the University of Melbourne. Associate Professor Davey’s research focusses on the cellular and molecular pathways through which hormones act in the musculoskeletal system with a particular focus on androgens and calcitonin. She has over 50 publications spanning areas of bone and muscle biology and metabolism. In recognition of her research and teaching achievements, she was the first Australian to be awarded the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research Early Career Teaching Award (2008), the inaugural recipient of the Endocrine Society of Australia Mid-Career Award (2009) and the recipient of an ANZBMS mid-career fellowship in 2017. Scientific Involvement (selected):
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Prof. Gustavo Duque MD, PhD, FRACP, FGSA
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Prof. Gustavo Duque MD, PhD, FRACP, FGSA Prof. Gustavo Duque MD, PhD, FRACP, FGSA is a geriatrician and a clinical and biomedical researcher with special interest in the mechanisms and treatment of osteoporosis, sarcopenia and frailty in older persons. His initial training included Internal Medicine at Javeriana University (Colombia) and Geriatric Medicine, which he completed at McGill University in Montreal (Canada). Subsequently, he obtained his PhD at McGill University in 2003 with a thesis entitled ‘Molecular Changes of the Aging Osteoblast’ under the supervision of Dr. Richard Kremer. Prof. Duque's major research interests include the elucidation of the mechanisms and potential new treatments for age-related bone loss, osteoporosis, sarcopenia and frailty. He is also looking at the effect of vitamin D, exercise and proteins on bone and muscle mass. He is currently Chair of Medicine and Director of the Australian Institute for Musculoskeletal Science (AIMSS) at the University of Melbourne and Western Health. He is also Director of the Fracture Care and Prevention Program at Western Health (Melbourne). As part of this Program, Prof. Duque implemented a Falls and Fractures clinic at Sunshine Hospital where patients are assessed for falls and fractures risk in a comprehensive manner.
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PAST-PRESIDENT
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Professor Peter Croucher
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Head of Division Peter undertook his undergraduate and PhD training at the University College Cardiff and the University of Wales College of Medicine. He did post-doctoral training in the Department of Medicine and LMB in Cambridge before moving to the Department of Human Metabolism and Clinical Biochemistry in Sheffield where he became a Leukeamia Research Fund Bennett Senior Research Fellow. In 2001 he moved to the Institute of Musculoskeletal Sciences at Oxford University as a Senior Research Fellow. Peter returned to Sheffield in 2003 as Professor of Bone Biology. In 2009 Peter was appointed the inaugural joint Direct of the Mellanby Center for Bone Research and the Head of the Department of Human Metabolism, at the University of Sheffield. Peter joined the Garvan Institute in December 2011 as Head of the Osteoporosis and Bone Program and now leads the Division. Peter’s research interests are in understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms responsible for physiological and pathological regulation of the skeleton. He has a particular interest in osteoporosis and tumours that grow in bone such as multiple myeloma, or those that metastasise to bone, including breast and prostate cancer. |
