PDC Expert Panelists and Task Forces

The ISCD Board of Directors would like to thank the following individuals for their contribution of time and talents to the 2007 ISCD Position Development Conferences (PDC). 

ADULT PDC

2007 PDC Steering Committee
Sanford Baim, MD, CCD, Rheumatic Disease Center, Glendale, WI, USA – Chair
Neil Binkley, MD, CCD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
Didier B. Hans, PhD, PD, CCD, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
David L. Kendler, MD, CCD, Vancouver, BC, Canada
E. Michael Lewiecki, MD, CCD, New Mexico Clinical Research & Osteoporosis Center, Albuquerque, NM, USA

2007 PDC Moderators

John P. Bilezikian, MD, CCD - (ISCD), College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York NY, USA

Stuart L. Silverman, MD - (ISCD), Osteoporosis Medical Center, Beverly Hills, CA, USA

2007 PDC Expert Panelists

Harry K. Genant, MD, PhD, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

Claus C. Glueer, PhD, University Hospital CAU Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Akira Itabashi, MD, PhD, Saitama Medical School, Moroyama, Saitama Japan

Lawrence G. Jankowski, CDT Illinois Bone and Joint Institute, Morton Grove, IL, USA

Michael Kleerekoper, MD, Saint Joseph Mercy Reichert Health Center, Ypsilanti, MI, USA

William D. Leslie, MD, St. Boniface General Hospital, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Marjorie Luckey, MD, St. Barnabas Osteoporosis & Metabolic Bone Disease Center, Livingston, NJ, USA

Paul D. Miller, MD, Colorado Center for Bone Research, Lakewood, CO, USA

Sergio Ortolani, MD, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy

Steven Petak, MD, JD, Texas Institute for Reproductive Medicine & Endocrinology, Houston, TX, USA

Lawrence G. Raisz, MD, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT , USA

Diane L. Schneider, MD, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA, USA

Technical Issues Task Force
Christine Simonelli, MD, CCD, HealthEast Clinics, Woodbury, MN, USA – Chair
Glen M. Blake, PhD, Guy's Hospital, London, UK
JoAnn P. Caudill, RT(R)(M)(BD), CDT, Erickson, Catonsville, MD, USA
Aliya Khan, MD, CCD, McMaster University, Oakville, ON, Canada
Edward S. Leib, MD, CCD, The Osteoporosis Center, Burlington, VT, USA
Michael Maricic, MD, Tucson, AZ, USA
Sergio Ragi-Eis, MD, CCD, CDT, CEDOES, Vitoria, ES, Brazil

QCT and pQCT Task Force

Klaus Engelke, PhD, University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany - Chair

Judith E. Adams, MBBS, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Peter Augat, PhD, Trauma Centre Murnau, Murnau, Germany

Gabriele Armbrecht, MD, University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Cesar E. Bogado, PhD, Instituto de Investigaciones Metabolicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Mary L. Bouxsein, PhD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

Dieter Felsenberg, MD, PhD, University Hospital Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany

Masako Ito, MD, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Nagasaki, Japan

Sven Prevrhal, PhD, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

QUS Task Force

Marc-Antoine Krieg, MD, CCD, University Hospital, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland – Chair
Reinhard Barkmann, PhD, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
Douglas C. Bauer, MD, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA
Luis del Rio Barquero, MD, Cetir Centre Medic, Barcelona, SPAIN
Stefano Gonnelli, MD, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
Jonathan J. Kaufman, PhD, CyberLogic, Inc., New York, NY, USA
Roman S. Lorenc, MD, PhD, CCD, Specjalistyczny Osrodek Medycyny Wieku, Warsaw, Poland
Paul D. Miller, MD, CCD, Colorado Center for Bone Research, Lakewood, CO, USA
Wojciech P. Olszynski, MD, PhD, FRCPC, CCD, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Anne-Marie Schott, MD, Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon, France
Alison Stewart, PhD, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

VFA Task Force

John T. Schousboe, MD, CCD, Park Nicollet Health Services, Minneapolis, MN, USA – Chair
Susan B. Broy, MD, CCD, Illinois Bone and Joint Institute, Northbrook, IL, USA
Lynne Ferrar, BSc, PhD, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK
Fergus E. McKiernan, MD, CCD, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, WI
Christian Roux, MD, Hospital Cochin, Paris, France
Tamara J. Vokes, MD, CCD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

pDXA Task Force

David M. Reid, MD, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Grampian, UK - Chair

Glen M. Blake, PhD, Guy's Hospital, London, UK

John N. Fordham, MD, The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK

Thomas Fuerst, PhD, Synarc, Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA

Peyman Hadji, MD, Philipps-Universitat Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Akira Itabashi, MD, PhD, CCD, Saitama Medical School, Moroyama, Saitama, Japan

Elliott N. Schwartz, MD, CCD, CPD, Northern California Institute For Bone Health, Inc., Oakland, CA, USA

John A. Shepherd, PhD, CCD, CDT. University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

PEDIATRIC PDC

2007 PDC Steering Committee

Sanford Baim, MD, CCD – (ISCD), Rheumatic Disease Center, Glendale, WI, USA – Co-chair

Mary B. Leonard, MD, MSCE -- (ICCBH), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA – Co-chair
Didier B. Hans, PhD, PD, CCD – (ISCD), Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
Maria-Luisa Bianchi, MD – (ISCD), Istituto Auxologico Italiano IRCCS, Milano, Italy
Heidi Kalkwarf, PhD – (ICCBH), Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Frank Rauch, MD – (ICCBH), Shriners Hospital for Children, Montreal, QC, Canada

2007 PDC Moderators

Sanford Baim, MD, CCD – (ISCD), Rheumatic Disease Center, Glendale, WI, USA

Craig B. Langman, MD – (ICCBH), Children’s Memorial Hospital, USA

2007 Pediatric PDC Expert Panelists

Shona L. Bass, PhD, Deakin University, Burwood, VIC, Australia
Thomas O. Carpenter, MD, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Emma Clark, MD, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol, UK
Barbara A. Cromer, MD, Metro Health Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
Tim Cundy, MD, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Francis H. Glorieux, MD, PhD – (IBMS), Shriners Hospital for Children, Montreal, QC, Canada
Ghada El-Hajj Fuleihan, MD, MPH, CCD, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Sue C. Kaste, DO, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
Gordon L. Klein, MD, MPH, University of Texas Medical Branch Child Health Center, Galveston, TX, USA
Roman S. Lorenc, MD, PhD, CCD, Specjalistyczny Osrodek Medycyny Wieku, Warsaw, Poland
M. Zulf Mughal, MBChB, FRCP, FRCPCH, St. Mary's Hospital, Manchester, UK
Isidro B. Salusky, MD, University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Aenor J. Sawyer, MD – (ASBMR), San Ramon, CA, USA
Francisco A. Sylvester, MD, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford, CT, USA
Hiroyuki Tanaka, MD, PhD, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Meaning of Measurement in Children Task Force

Horacio Plotkin, MD, Children's Hospital & University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA – Chair
Craig F. J. Munns, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW, Australia
Hamilton Casinelli, Argentina
Raoul Engelbert, Netherlands
Deborah Wenkert. MD, Shriners Hospital for Children, St. Louis, MO, USA
Linda A. DiMeglio, MD, MPH, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Richard C. Henderson, MD, PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Philip Zeitler, The Children’s Hospital of Denver, Denver, CO, USA

Reporting of Bone Densitometry in Children Task Force
Catherine M. Gordon, MD, MSc , Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA – Chair
Laura K. Bachrach, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Nicola J. Crabtree, BSc, MSc, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Bone Density, Birmingham, UK
Kate A. Ward, PhD, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Leanne M. Ward, MD, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Laura Tosi, MD, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
Ghada El-Hajj Fuleihan, MD, MPH, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Stepan Kutilek, MD, PhD, CCBR Czech, Pardubice, Czech Republic
Thomas O. Carpenter, MD, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

Extent of Disease Task Force
Nicholas J. Bishop, Sheffield Childrens NHS Foundation Trust, Western Bank, Sheffield, UK – Chair

Maria Luisa Bianchi, Istituto Auxologico Italiano IRCCS, Milano, Italy

Pierre Braillon, Hospital Debrousse, Lyon, France

Jon Burnham, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Rolando Cimaz, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Meyer, Firenze, Italy

Justin Davies, Southampton University Hospital Trust, Southampton, UK

Mary Fewtrell, Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, Institute of Child Health, London, UK

Wolfgang Högler, Diana, Princess of Wales Children’s Hospital, Birmingham, UK

Kathy Kennedy, Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, Institute of Child Health, London, UK

Outi Mäkitie, Helsinki University Hospital,Helsinki, Finland

Zulf Mughal, St. Mary's Hospital for Women & Children, Manchester, UK

Nick Shaw, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Birmingham, UK

Maria Vogiatzi, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA

Kate Ward, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

pQCT Measurement in Children Task Force
Babette S. Zemel, PhD, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA – Chair
Heather A. McKay, PhD, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Laurie J. Moyer-Mileur, PhD, University of Utah/Pediatrics, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Eckhard Schonau, Universitats Kinderklinik, Koln, Germany
Bonny L. Specker, PhD, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, USA
Kate A. Ward, PhD, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Shona L. Bass, PhD, Deakin University, Burwood, VIC, Australia
John A. Shepherd, PhD, CCD, CDT, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

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