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Biographical Details

Dr Frank Rauch obtained his MD degree from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and trained as a pediatrician at the Children’s Hospital of Cologne University, Germany. Since 2001 Dr F Rauch has been a clinician-scientist at the Shriners Hospital for Children and is currently a Professor of Pediatrics at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. His clinical and scientific work focuses on heritable bone diseases in children and adolescents, in particular osteogenesis imperfecta. He is the Director of Clinical Laboratories at Shriners Hospital, comprising laboratories for biochemistry, bone histomorphometry, and molecular diagnostics. Dr F Rauch has published more than 160 original articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Since 2009, he has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Musculoskeletal and Neuronal Interactions.