Bone Abstracts

Biographical Details

Sandy Burnham received his MD from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (UPENN) in 1997 and completed his Pediatrics Residency in 2000 and General Pediatrics and Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowships in 2004 at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). He received his Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology from UPENN in 2006. Dr S Burnham is now Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UPENN and practices Pediatric Rheumatology at CHOP, where he is the Pediatric Rheumatology Training Program Director. His research focuses on the impact of chronic inflammatory conditions on skeletal structure using methods such as DXA, pQCT, and spine QCT. Recent work used spine QCT finite element modeling to characterize vertebral strength deficits in children with systemic lupus erythematosus. In addition, Dr S Burnham is interested in developing methods to systematically enhance patient safety and optimize care quality in children exposed to chronic glucocorticoid therapy.