Bone Abstracts

Biographical DetailsDr Madhusmita Misra is a full Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a Pediatric Endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. She directs the fellowship training program in Pediatric Endocrinology at Massachusetts General Hospital, and has a Masters in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr M Misra’...

Biographical DetailsDr Roland BaronDr Roland Baron is Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, Endocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor in the Division of Bone and Mineral Research and Chair of the Department of Oral Medicine, Infection and Immunity at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine since January 2008. From 1977 -...

I will describe non-cancerous skeletal diseases that occur as a consequence of somatic mutation. I will introduce the work of Drs Mary Lyon, Dorothea Bennett, and Rudolf Happle that provided insights into the mechanism responsible for several genetic, non-heritable diseases. I will then describe the technology and analytic strategies that several laboratories, including my own, employed to identify mutations in patients with Maffucci, Proteus, CLOVES, and Klippel-Trenaunay syn...

Biographical DetailsDr Mary Leonard, MD, MSCE is a Professor of Paediatrics and Epidemiology at the Perlman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Director of the Office of Clinical and Translational Research at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Her multidisciplinary research program is focused on the assessment of bone health in children, and the detrim...

Associate Professor Munns is a Senior Staff Specialist in Bone and Mineral Medicine and Endocrinology at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead and Conjoint Associate Professor in the Sydney Medical School at the University of Sydney, Australia. Following the completion of his Paediatric and Endocrinology training at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, Associate Professor Munns was Clinical Associate in Genetic and Metabolic Bone Disor...

Biographical DetailsDr Lynda F Bonewald is a University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC) Curators Professor, the Lefkowitz Professor of Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, and Director of the Mineralized Tissue/Bone Biology Research Program at the UMKC School of Dentistry, Director of the UMKC Center of Excellence in the Study of Dental and Musculoskeletal Tissues and UMKC Vice Chancellor for ...

Biographical DetailsAssociate Professor Craig Munns is a Senior Staff Specialist in Bone and Mineral Medicine and Endocrinology at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead and Conjoint Associate Professor in the Sydney Medical School at the University of Sydney, Australia. Following the completion of his Paediatric and Endocrinology training at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Brisbane...

Biographical DetailsCraig B LangmanProfessor Craig B Langman, is the Isaac A Abt, MD, Professor of Kidney Diseases at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Head of Kidney Diseases at the Ann and Robert H Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. His research focuses on the basic and clinical expression of inherited or acquired d...

Objective: Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) which is a heterogenic group of diseases presenting with bone fragility, skeletal deformations and limited mobility may confer a risk of several non-skeletal health issues and is associated with adaptational social problems. The aim of the qualitative descriptive study was to determine the most important areas (problems?) related to social functioning, familial environment, hospital amenities and social needs in children with OI.<p c...

Biographical DetailsEric HesseEric Hesse studied Medicine at Hannover Medical School in Germany where he became MD in 2003. He was trained in Orthopedic Surgery and graduated as PhD in 2007 in Genetics & Cell Biology in Hannover, Germany. In 2005, he moved as a Postdoctoral Fellow funded by the German Research Foundation to the laboratory of Dr ...