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National Osteoporosis Foundation
(NOF) Announces New President and Vice
President
July
27, 2005 (Washington, DC) – The National
Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF) announces
that, as of July 21, Ethel S. Siris, MD,
has begun her term as NOF President.
Additionally, NOF announced the election
of Sundeep Khosla, MD, to the newly
created office of Vice President. Dr.
Siris’ term follows the completion of
three years of distinguished service as
NOF President by Dr. Bess Dawson-Hughes
of the USDA Human Nutrition Research
Center on Aging, Tufts University, who
remains on the NOF Board of Trustees as
Immediate Past President.
Dr. Siris is the
Madeline C. Stabile Professor of
Clinical Medicine in the Department of
Medicine, College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Columbia University, and the
Director of the Toni Stabile
Osteoporosis Center of the Columbia
University Medical Center, New York
Presbyterian Hospital, both in New York
City. Dr. Siris received her AB degree
from Radcliffe College, Harvard
University and her medical degree from
the College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Columbia University. An
endocrinologist, she has worked as a
clinician, clinical investigator, and
medical educator in the area of
metabolic bone diseases. Dr. Siris was
elected to the NOF Board of Trustees in
1994 and has most recently served as
Chair of the Science and Research
Committee.
Dr. Khosla serves as
Professor of Medicine and Research Chair
in the Division of Endocrinology,
Metabolism, and Nutrition, Mayo Clinic
College of Medicine. He is also
Director of the Endocrine Research Theme
at Mayo. Dr. Khosla received his A.B.
degree from Harvard College and his M.D.
from Harvard Medical School. His
research interests include mechanisms of
postmenopausal and age-related bone loss
as well as sex steroid regulation of
bone metabolism. Dr. Khosla was elected
to the NOF Board of Trustees in 2002.
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