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2012 ISCD Elections and Bylaws Amendments
Newly Elected Officers and Board Member Biographical Sketches
President-Elect Nominee
John Schousboe, M.D., Ph.D., CCD
Dr. Schousboe is a rheumatologist at Park Nicollet Health Services, a large integrated private physician-hospital organization in the upper Midwest. He has been heavily involved in the osteoporosis field serving as co-director of the Park Nicollet Osteoporosis Center for the past 15 years. He served on the Vertebral Fracture Assessment Task Force of the 2005 ISCD Position Development Conference, chaired the Vertebral Fracture Assessment Task Force of the 2007 ISCD Position Development Conference, and served on the Expert Panel of the 2010 joint IOF-ISCD FRAX initiative. He is also a health services researcher, and has published studies on the utility of vertebral fracture assessment in clinical practice, the epidemiology of osteoporotic fractures, and both original studies and reviews regarding the cost-effectiveness of both bone densitometry and of vertebral fracture assessment. He has been a member of ISCD since 1996.
Vice President Nominee
Diane Krueger, B.S., CBDT
Diane Krueger received her bachelor of science degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an ISCD-certified clinical bone densitometrist and a certified clinical research coordinator through the Association of Clinical Research Professionals. She has been program manager at the University of Wisconsin Osteoporosis Clinical Research Program since its inception in 1993. Ms. Krueger has extensive clinical research experience in osteoporosis and bone densitometry, having worked on multiple industry and investigator-initiated studies. In collaboration with the UW Osteoporosis Program, she has published over 50 manuscripts and authored or presented over 100 abstracts. Her service with the ISCD since 2004 includes Bone Densitometry Course faculty, participation on the Education and Faculty Committees (since 2007), chairing the Technologist Bone Densitometry Course Update (since 2009) and Annual Meeting Committee (since 2007). She has been on the Board since 2007, joining Executive Committee as Secretary in 2009. She has co-chaired the Session for Allied-Health Professionals at the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Annual Meeting for approximately 10 years. Ms. Krueger has also been on the Care Wisconsin Board, a non-profit managed care organization that coordinates and provides health care to seniors and special needs individuals, since 2008 and is currently Board Chair.
Secretary
Catherine Gordon, M.D., CCD
Dr. Gordon is a pediatrician with training in both adolescent medicine and endocrinology. She is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a Senior Staff Physician at Children’s Hospital Boston. She directs the Hospital’s Bone Health Program and DXA Center, which she co-founded in 2000, and supervises the acquisition of all bone density and body composition DXA measurements obtained. She is also Medical Director of the Hospital’s Clinical and Translational Research Unit. Dr. Gordon’s research focuses on understanding the effects of malnutrition on bone, using clinical models such as anorexia nervosa (AN), cystic fibrosis (CF), and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). She is also examining the effects of nutritional factors (e.g., vitamin D intake) and exercise on the achievement of peak bone mass in adolescents. She has received independent research funding from the NIH, Department of Defense, and private foundations.
For the ISCD, Dr. Gordon launched and now serves as Director of the first-ever ISCD pediatric bone density course. In 2007, she served as a task force chair on reporting bone densitometry results in children for the first Pediatric Position Development (PDC) Conference, and is co-chairing the 2nd Pediatric PDC to be held in 2013. In 2009, she was elected to the ISCD Board of Directors and has enjoyed the opportunity to interact with other clinicians and technologists from around the world. As Secretary, she looks forward to continued opportunities to work with ISCD, to promote bone health for individuals across the life span.
Board Nominees (six openings)
Ann M. Babbitt, MD, is in private practice in orthopedic surgery and osteoporosis management in South Portland, Maine. She also serves as the director of the Osteoporosis Healthcare Network which supports bone health awareness events, advocacy locally and in Washington DC, and sponsors the National Osteoporosis Foundation Support Group of Southern Maine- founded in 1996. Support Group hosts monthly meetings to advance education about bone health and other pertinent health issues. Dr. Babbitt serves as director and certified clinical densitometrist at Greater Portland Bone Densitometry in South Portland and is a staff orthopedic surgeon at the Maine Medical Center, Mercy Hospital, and New England Rehabilitation Hospital in Portland, Maine.
Dr. Babbitt received a bachelor’s degree in Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and earned her medical degree at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Residency in orthopedic surgery was completed at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, where she was chief resident. Dr. Babbitt is board-certified in orthopedic surgery. She has been the recipient of several awards, including Physician of the Year in 1996 from the International Society for Clinical Densitometry.
Dr. Babbitt has authored several papers and book chapters, and she holds or has held positions in professional organizations; areas of specialty are general orthopedic surgery, osteoporosis management, clinical densitometry, and special interests in geriatrics and sports medicine.
J. Edward Puzas, Ph.D
Dr. Puzas' research interests span all areas of bone, cartilage, orthopaedics and oral biology, especially at the cellular and molecular level. Research from his laboratory is aimed at translational approaches that extend discoveries made at the lab bench to higher order life forms.
He currently has active programs that examine the molecular mechanisms by which environmental agents affect skeletal health as well and the discovery of new signaling pathways that control bone formation during the remodeling process. He is also currently heading two clinical trials related to these lines of investigation using bone densitometry as one of the outcome measures. Understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms of these effects will open new possibilities for diagnosis and treatment of bone diseases. As co-Principal Investigator on the University's CTSA program, Dr. Puzas believes that an integrated approach between the basic and clinical sciences has the best chance for benefiting human health.
Dr. Puzas currently holds the Donald and Mary Clark Chair in Orthopaedics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. He is also the Senior Associate Dean for Research at that institution. Dr. Puzas has been a past president of the Orthopaedic Research Society and the United States Bone and Joint Decade and a long standing member of ISCD. He currently directs the Center for Bone Health and manages the DXA imaging service. He has been continuously funded by the NIH for over 25 years.
John Shepherd, Ph.D., CCD, CDT
Dr. Shepherd is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and core faculty member of UC Berkeley's Bioengineering Graduate Program. He received his PhD in Engineering Physics from the University of Virginia and postdoctoral training from Princeton University where he designed and characterized custom x-ray imaging systems for protein crystallography. Afterwards, he joined Hologic, Inc. as a principal scientist developing applications and hardware for DXA. At UCSF since 1999, he has worked extensively on advanced body composition and bone densitometry techniques. His group, the breast and bone densitometry group, provides DXA and body composition expertise to many publically-funded studies including NHANES, HealthABC, and BMDCS. He is a member of the International Committee on Radiation Measure and Units (ICRU) Committee on Bone Densitometry and an expert consultant to the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency. He has served the ISCD in multiple ways including the BDC (faculty), BCC (faculty), three PDC committees (member), Southwest Regional Representative, SAC, and 2011 Annual Meeting program co-chair. He has published over 80 peer reviewed publications.
Wendy Tolman-Andrews, B.S., RT(R)(BD), CBDT
Mrs.Tolman-Andrews is a current member of the ISCD Board of Directors and the Facility Accreditation Core Committee. She has been an ISCD member since 1999. In 2007, Wendy received the “ISCD Technologist of the Year” award, and in 2011 she received the “Dr. Paul D. Miller ISCD Service Award”. Wendy has had a 20-year career in radiology with more than 14 years in full-time bone densitometry. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Hartford and works at the University of Connecticut Health Center.
Sharon Wartenbee, RT(R)(BD), FASRT, CBDT
Ms. Wartenbee is a diagnostic radiologic technologist and bone densitometry technologist at Avera Medical Group McGreev y Clinic in Sioux Falls, SD. With over forty years of experience she has credentials from the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) in both radiology and bone densitometry. She also obtained bone density certification in 1999 from the International Society for Clinical Densitometry. (ISCD) Sharon has served on numerous committees for the ISCD and is one of the annual conference chairs for the 2012 meeting in Los Angeles, CA. In 2010, Sharon was awarded ISCD Technologist of the Year.
Sharon has represented the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) on various project groups, task forces, commissions, and committees. She is currently serving in the ASRT House of Delegates as the Bone Density Chapter Delegate. In 2009, Sharon was elevated to a Fellow of the ASRT. She is also serving as the Regional Co-Ordinator for the Americas on Professional Practice for the International Society of Radiographers and Radiologic Technologists.
Sharon and her husband, Dean, have one son, John. He is married and has two little boys, Jackson(age 6) and Max(age3). Not to be forgotten are the two Golden Retrievers, Megan(age 13) and Lexi (age 1).
Chih-Hsing (Paulo) Wu, M.D., CCD, CDT
Dr. Wu, also named as Paulo, graduated from the MD program at the Chinese Medical College in Taiwan in 1989. He now is the associate professor in National Cheng Kung University Hospital. A 3-month stay as a visiting scholar at Kyoto Medical College was appreciated in 2000. He has also been a post-doctoral research fellow at the New York Obesity Research Center, body composition unit, Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in 2005-2006. Dr. Wu is Board-certified in Family Medicine, Geriatrics, Obesity, Osteoporosis and special expertise in the related chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, etc. Dr. Wu has special clinic of obesity and osteoporosis, the only one with both unique special clinic in Taiwan. He is an active council member of many medical associations in Taiwan. Dr. Wu got the CCD at 2002, 2007 and CDT at 2008 in Taiwan and devoted to promoting the concept of ISCD since then. He is the co-director of TOPTEAM (Tainan Osteoporosis Prevention, Treatment and Evaluation Associated Membership) and the director of ISCD course committee of TOA (the Taiwanese Osteoporosis Association) in Taiwan. With his help, 18 certification courses with 2066 attendee were successfully organized since 2002 in Taiwan. He also hosted the Asia Pacific ISCD Position consensus conference (7 regions, 150 professionals) on July 26, 2009 and steps on as the Chair of ISCD Asia Pacific regions in 2011. He has published and presented many researches on DXA, body composition, obesity, diabetes, osteoporosis therapies, etc.
Bylaws Amendments
The proposed amendments to the Bylaws have been approved by the Board of Directors and are being presented to the membership with the recommendation to approve. Deletions are struck out and additions are in bold and underlined. A “yes" vote is to approve all changes and a "no" vote is to not approve all changes. We need 2/3rds of those casting votes to approve Bylaw amendments.
Full text of changes can be downloaded by clicking on the following link: ISCD Bylaws Amendments
Page Last Updated: 01/04/2012
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