Bone Abstracts

Biographical DetailsDr 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 an...

Biographical DetailsDr Marie Gdalevitch completed both her medical and orthopedic surgery degrees at McGill University. Following her residency, Dr M Gdalevitch pursued her first fellowship in limb lengthening and deformity correction at the International Center for Limb Lengthening in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr M Gdalevitch then embarked on her second fellowship in pediatric orthopedics and...

Biographical DetailsSusan Schiavi has spent her career as a research scientist within the biotech/pharmaceutical industry. She received her PhD from the University of Massachusetts Medical School and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School. As a Senior Scientific Director at Genzyme and Sanofi, her primary role has been the development of scientific strategy for the ...

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 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 DetailsBettina WillieBettina Willie is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatric Surgery at McGill University and an investigator at Shriners Hospitals for Children - Canada. She is an Associate Member of the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Surgery. She earned a doctoral degree in Bioengineering from the University...

Biographical DetailsDr HamrickDr Hamrick is Regent’s Professor in the Department of Cellular Biology & Anatomy at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University (formerly Georgia Health Sciences University), Augusta, Georgia, USA. He received his PhD in Cellular & Integrative Biology from Northwestern University and completed postdo...

Biographical DetailsSogol Mostoufi-MoabI am an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, and board certified in pediatric oncology and endocrinology. I have advanced epidemiology training and my research program is focused on bone, body composit...

Backgound: Limited data are available on body composition of preterm compared to born at term infants. The aim of our study was to compare bone mass, fat mass-FM and free fat mass-FFM in preterm and term infants at 40th weeks of gestational age (GA).Methods: Thirty-four preterm infants (14M, 20F) born at 31.0±2.2 weeks of GA (range 26–36+3 weeks) and n=8 term neonates (4M, 4F) born at 39.7±1.0 weeks of GA underwent a to...

Being efficient and productive in research is frequently linked to a structured organization of the available research time. This applies to any individual scientist including PhD students, Postdocs, or PIs. In particular PIs but also to some extend more senior Postdocs have a responsibility for more junior scientists and in the case of PIs even of an entire research team. This does not only require overseeing and organizing his own time but also the time and workload of other...