2007 Nominee Biographies

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• Sanford Baim M.D., FACR, CCD
  Dr. Sanford Baim is a clinician and senior associate at the Rheumatic Disease Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Rheumatic Disease Center is single specialty clinic of 9 board certified rheumatologists. Dr. Baim trained at Chicago Medical School and completed his internal medicine residency program at the University of Chicago affiliate, Michael Reese Hospital, in Chicago Illinois under the direction of Dr. Louis Sherwood. In 1978 he completed his fellowship in rheumatology at the University of Utah under the direction of John Ward performing osteoporosis clinical research utilizing single photon densitometry of the distal forearm. Dr. Baim was the medical director of the Columbia Hospital Osteoporosis Program from 1984-2004 and teaches medical students and medical residents at the Medical College of Wisconsin and at the University of Wisconsin school of Medicine and Public Health Milwaukee campus. Dr. Baim actively participates in osteoporosis and rheumatologic clinical research at the Rheumatic Disease Center. Dr. Baim is a member of the ISCD Board of Directors and Education Council and previously served as chairman of the Vertebral Fracture Assessment Education Committee and Public Policy Committees.  He serves as an instructor for the Bone Densitometry and Vertebral Fracture Assessment Courses, is a reviewer of the Journal of Clinical Densitometry, and presently is the vice president of the ISCD.

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• Anita Colquhoun, M.R.T.(N), CDT
  Anita is the charge technologist in the Multidisciplinary Osteoporosis Program at the Women’s College Hospital in Toronto. She graduated in 1984 from the Toronto Institute of Medical Technology as a Nuclear Medical Technologist. Since graduating Anita has worked in all aspects of Nuclear Medicine.  However, she chose to specialize in the field of bone densitometry and has been doing so since 1992. While primarily working at Women’s College Hospital, Anita had also worked as an applications specialist and she still continues to respond to requests for advice and technical support for those technologists needing help in running their densitometers. Ms Colquhoun also has experience working with peripheral densitometry devices.  She has taken part in several osteoporosis research projects and clinical drug trials and has given talks on Bone Mineral Densitometry at the Michener Institute in Toronto and Osteoporosis Canada. Anita received her ISCD Certification in Densitometry in 1997. She has been a member of the ISCD Technologist Faculty since 2000. Ms Colquhoun is an active member of the ISCD, she c0-chairs the Faculty Committee and severs on several other committees within the ISCD as well as being the Regional Representative for the ISCD.  She is involved with the Bone mineral group in Toronto as well as Osteoporosis Canada.

• Diane Krueger, BS, CCRC, CDT
  Diane Krueger received her bachelor of science degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  She is an ISCD-certified clinical densitometrist and a certified clinical research coordinator through the Association of Clinical Research Professionals.  She has been program manger of the University of Wisconsin Osteoporosis Clinical Research Program since its inception in 1993.  Her service with ISCD has included participation with the Introduction to Bone Densitometry and Annual Meeting Committees and as faculty for the Introductory Course.

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•  Andrew J. Laster, MD, FACR, CCD
  Andrew J. Laster is a partner in a 6 member rheumatology group in Charlotte, North Carolina and has been in private practice since 1986. He is an Assistant Consulting Professor of Medicine at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and Clinical Instructor in Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine at Chapel Hill. Dr. Laster earned his medical degree from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and did his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He completed his fellowship in Rheumatology at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Laster is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Rheumatology Dr Laster has been an active member in the ISCD for over 10 years and has chaired the Public Policy Committee for the past 2 years. He previously was chair of the Clinical Education Sub-committee and was the Public Policy representative for the Southeast United States. Dr Laster has been an invited panelist for the three ISCD Position Development Conferences in Denver (2000), Cincinnati (2003) and Vancouver (2005). He also serves on the ISCD clinical faculty as a lecturer for both the Bone Densitometry Course and the Vertebral Fracture Assessment Course. In 2000, Dr Laster was appointed by the Governor of North Carolina to be the physician representative for the North Carolina Osteoporosis Task Force. He chaired the committee which drafted a bill, since ratified, that mandates insurance coverage for DXA studies of qualified non-Medicare beneficiaries in North Carolina. Dr Laster has been a principal investigator in multiple clinical trials in both post-menopausal and steroid-induced osteoporosis. He serves as a faculty member and consultant for a number of pharmaceutical companies, as well as a lecturer at CME programs in the field of osteoporosis.

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• Bennie' L. Leverich, RN, CDT
  Bennie' Leverich has been a Registered Nurse with a Specialty in Orthopedics since 1987.   From 1996 to 2006 she worked to develop an Osteoporosis Center as an ancillary department for a large orthopedic practice.   Currently she is assisting sites in Program Development and Research Study Coordinator training.   Bennie’ has been Certified and a member of ISCD since 1997.   In 1999, she was asked to serve on the Technologist Teaching Faculty and continues to teach courses nationwide as well as serving on the Education, Certification, Executive and Corporate Advisory Committees.  In 2001, Bennie’ was appointed to serve as a Regional Representative for the Mid-Atlantic Region and has been a Co-Chair of this committee since 2002.  Bennie' was appointed to the Board of Directors in 2003 and was recently asked to serve as Secretary for the Board.  Bennie' has been an advocate for NOF in promoting education in her community, by speaking to senior groups, professional organizations and women's groups.  She was chosen as a Key Contact in the state of Pennsylvania and lobbied Congress to increase funding for research in the field of Osteoporosis.  She is an active member of the National Osteoporosis Foundation, National Association of Orthopedic Nurses, and Society for Certified Research Auditors and Pennsylvania Osteoporosis Society.

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• Joseph Shaker, M.D., CCD
  Joe Shaker is a practicing endocrinologist at St. Luke’s Medical Center in Milwaukee. Originally from Connecticut, he received a B.A. from Colby College and an M.D. from Georgetown University School of Medicine. He did internal medicine training at Albany Medical Center and Georgetown University Hospital, and completed his endocrine fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He has been at St. Luke’s in Milwaukee since 1987. His practice is focused on osteoporosis, other metabolic bone diseases, and disorders of mineral metabolism. Joe is a member of the Advisory Medical Panel and Board-of-Directors of The Paget Foundation for Paget’s Disease of Bone and Related Disorders. Joe has served on the Clinical Affairs Committee of The Endocrine Society and The Scientific Advisory Committee of ISCD. He was a member of Physician Consortium for Performance Performance Improvement – osteoporosis work group. Joe serves on the editorial board of Endocrine Practice.
  

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• S. Bobo Tanner, M.D., CCD
  S. Bobo Tanner, MD, graduated cum laude from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a BA in History and Science, and received his medical degree with honors from Bowman Gray Medical School of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.  He pursued his internship and residency at the Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, and completed fellowships and board certification in Rheumatology and in Allergy/Immunology.   Dr. Tanner has served as Registrar of the Department of Rheumatology at the Royal Free Hospital, London, England where he participated in Scleroderma studies. He is currently the secretary/ treasurer of the Tennessee Rheumatology Society and past president of the Tennessee Allergy Society. His current position at Vanderbilt University is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology and the Division of Allergy and Immunology. He is the Director of the Vanderbilt Osteoporosis Clinic. He divides his time seeing patients at the Vanderbilt  Osteoporosis & Rheumatology Clinic as well as the Vanderbilt Asthma Sinus Allergy Program.  Dr. Tanner  is  Board member of the International Society of Clinical Densitometry and serves as chairman of the ISCD Education Council that provides the course material, faculty and preparation for the CME  Bone Density Courses, Vertebral Fracture Assessment Courses and Introduction to Bone Densitometry Courses throughout the year. He is a Certified Clinical Densitometrist. He is also a member of the American College of Physicians; a Fellow of the American College of Rheumatology; and member of  the Royal Society of Medicine, and the  American Academy of Asthma, Allergy & Immunology . He performs a variety of clinical studies on asthma, sinusitis, allergic rhinitis, osteoporosis and rheumatoid arthritis.   His research has been presented at several national meetings and is published in several journals, such as Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Arthritis Care and Research, and Arthritis and Rheumatism.

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