ICCBH2013 Invited Speaker Abstracts The fracturing child: epidemiology (2 abstracts)
Biographical Details
I am a Consultant Senior Lecturer in Rheumatology at the University of Bristol, UK. My research area is Musculoskeletal Epidemiology, with a particular interest in the role of bone mass in determining fracture risk in children and adolescents. Other areas of interest are the epidemiology of hypermobility and scoliosis in adolescents, and identification of osteoporotic vertebral fractures in older adults. I am on the Editorial Boards of Therapeutic Advances in Chronic Diseases and Frontiers in Medicine. I am a member of the NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme, and convene the British Society for Rheumatology Osteoporosis Special Interest Group. I have been a recipient of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) President's Book Award.