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The UAB-CMBD, largely through industry-sponsorship (i.e., Merck, Procter & Gamble), has developed an active, highly visible outside speaker's program.  Numerous experts/speakers have visited the UAB-CMBD at UAB, given plenary lectures, and visited with scientists, clinicians, and students.
2008
01-17-08

Jane Cauley, DrPH, Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh

Title: Successful Aging and Bone Health
Co-hosted with CERTs

02-21-08

J. Wesley Pike, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Title: To be determined

02-28-08

Mary Nakamura, MD, Associate Professor, University of California, San Francisco
Co-hosted with Molecular and Cellular Pathology

Title: To be determined

03-06-08

Rik Derynck, PhD, Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California, San Francisco

Title: To be determined

03-21-08

Farshid Guilak , PhD, Professor, Director, Orthopaedic Bioengineering Laboratory, Duke University, Durham, NC
Co-hosted with School of Engineering Spring 2008 Seminar Series

Title: To be determined

03-26-08

Lynda F. Bonewald, PhD, Lefkowitz Professor and Director, Bone Biology Research Program, Department of Oral Biology, University of Missouri at Kansas City
Co-hosted with Molecular and Cellular Pathology

Title: Discovering Both New Functions for Osteocytes

03-26-08

Laurie K. McCauley, DDS, PhD, William K. and Mary Anne Najjar Professor and Chair, Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine, University of Michigan School of Dentistry

Title: Cell Systems and Targets of PTH Action in Bone

03-26-08

Steven L. Teitelbaum, MD, Wilma & Roswell Messing Professor, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine

Title: The Osteoclast Cytoskeleton: How Does it Work and What Does it Do?

03-26-08

Mone Zaidi, MD, PhD, FRCP, Professor of Medicine and Director, Mount Sinai Bone Program, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Title: Expanding Horizons of Skeletal Physiology and Pathophysiology

04-17-08

Roland Baron, DDS, PhD, Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation and Director, Orthopaedic Biology Laboratories, Yale University School of Medicine

Title: To be determined

05-15-08

Kristine E. Ensrud, MD, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Director, Epidemiology Clinical Research Center, University of Minnesota

Title: To be determined

06-19-08

Speaker to be announced

Title: To be determined

09-18-07

Speaker to be announced

Title: To be determined

10-16-08

Douglas P. Kiel, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Title: To be determined

11-20-08

Speaker to be announced

Title: To be determined

2007
01-18-07

Dwight A. Towler, MD, PhD, Ira M. Lang Professor of Medicine, Washington University

Title: TNF-alpha and BMP2-Wnt Signaling in Diabetic Vascular Disease

01-25-07

Dianqing (Dan) Wu, PhD, Professor of Genetics & Developmental Biology, University of Connecticut Health Center

Title: To be announced
Co-host with Molecular and Cellular Pathology

02-08-07

Paul D. Miller, MD, Medical Director, Colorado Center for Bone Research

Title: Bisphosphonates for Life?

02/15/07

Robert A. Nissenson, PhD, Professor of Medicine, VA Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco

Title: Regulation of Skeletal Homeostasis by G Protein Signaling in Osteoblasts

03-15-07

Pamela G. Robey, PhD, Chief, Craniofacial and Skeletal Diseases Branch, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, NIH

Title: To be announced

04-19-07

Eric S. Orwoll, MD, Professor of Medicine and Director, General Clinical Research Center, Oregon Health &Science University

Title: : Fractures in Older Men: Lessons from the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures (MrOS)

04-29-07

G. David Roodman, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Director, Center for Bone Biology, University of Pittsburgh
Title: Paget’s Disease – Virus or Gene?
Co-host with Molecular and Cellular Pathology

05-17-07
Janet Rubin, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of North Carolina

Title
: Mechanical Induction of a Pro-anabolic, Anti-catabolic State in Bone
06-21-07

David B. Burr, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine

Title
: The Effects of Pharmacologic Agents Used to Treat Postmenopausal Osteoporosis on Bone Matrix Material Properties

06-29-07

William V. Giannobile, DDS, DMedSc, Najjar Professor of Dentistry, and Director, Michigan Center for Oral Health Research; and Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan

Title: Periodontal Bioengineering

06-29-07

Thomas A. Einhorn, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine

Title: The Cell and Molecular Biology of Bone Repair and Regeneration

10-04-07

Clifford J. Rosen, MD, Maine Center for Osteoporosis Research & Education

Title: Genetics of IGF and the Skeleton

11-15-07

Speaker to be announced

Title:

2006

01/19/06

Bess Dawson-Hughes, MD, Professor and Director, Bone Metabolism Laboratory, Tufts University

Title: Role of Vitamin D in Musculoskeletal Health

02/16/06

John P. Bilezikian, MD, Professor of Medicine and Chief of Endocrinology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Title: The Top Ten Paradoxes as a Therapy for Osteoporosis

03-02-06

Deborah Novack, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Washington University

Title: Classical and Alternative NFkappaB Signaling in Osteoclasts Co-host with Molecular and Cellular Pathology

03/16/06

Sundeep Khosla, MD, Professor of Medicine and Director, Endocrine Research Unit, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

Title: Circulating Osteogenic Cells in Humans

04/20/06

David W. Dempster, PhD, Professor of Clinical Pathology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Director, Regional Bone Center, Helen Hayes Hospital

Title: Bone Quality: It is Important Or a Passing Fad?

05/17/06

Mone Zaidi, MD, PhD, FRCP, Professor, Department of Medicine, Director, Mount Sinai Bone Program, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Title: The Pituitary in Control of Bone

05/17/06

John S. Adams, MD, Professor and Director, Division of Endocrinology, University of California-Los Angeles

Title: Vitamin D as a Defensin

05/17/06
Lynda F. Bonewald, PhD, Professor, Department of Oral Biology, School of Dentistry, Director, Bone Biology Research Program, University of Missouri at Kansas City

Title: Osteocytes as Dynamic, not Passive Cells

05/17/06
Ted S. Gross, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, University of Washington

Title: Do your bones care what your muscles are doing?

05/17/06
Theresa A. Guise, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia

Title: TGFß in Bone Metastases
06-15-06

Lawrence G. Raisz, MD, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Medicine and Director, Musculoskeletal Institute, University of Connecticut Health Center

Title: Prostaglandins and Bone

09-21-06

Jay M. McDonald, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology and Director, Center for Metabolic Bone Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Title: Health Care on the Trip to Mars

10-05-06

M. Cynthia Farach-Carson, PhD, Professor of Biological Sciences and Director, Center for Translational Cancer Research, University of Delaware

Title: Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans and Prostate Cancer Metastasis to Bone
Co-host with Molecular and Cellular Pathology

10-19-06

B. Lawrence Riggs, MD, Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

Title: Application of New Technologies for Non-invasive Assessment of Bone Structure, Bone Quality, and Bone Strength: Impact of Results on Current Paradigms of Pathogenesis and Drug Therapy for Osteoporosis

11-16-06

Steven R. Goldring, MD, Chief Scientific Officer, Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Title: Pathology Teaches Physiology: A Paradigm for Translational Research

2005

12-15-05

Gary Gibson, PhD, Professor and Director, Bone and Joint Center, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit

Title: The Chondrocyte’s Last Gasp. Cell Communication at the Cartilage Bone Interface
Co-host with Molecular and Cellular Pathology

12-08-05

Michael Rosenblatt, MD, Dean and Professor of Physiology and Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine

Title: Bones, Hormones and Cancer: Hormone-Receptor Interactions for Parathyroid Hormone and Development of an Animal Model of Skeletal Metastasis
Co-host with Molecular and Cellular Pathology

12/07/05

Chenbei Chang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Title: Regulation of Early Xenopus Development by TGF-ß
Co-host with Cell Biology

11/17/05

Steven A. Goldstein, PhD, Henry Ruppenthal Family Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering and Associate Chair for Research, University of Michigan

Title: Mechanical and Biologic Influences on Bone Formation, Repair and Regeneration

10/20/05

Millie Hughes-Fulford, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Director, Laboratory of Cell Growth, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco

Title: Mechanical Stress Response in Bone: The Gravity of the Situation

09-29-05

Fanxin Long, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Washington University Medical School

Title: Hedgehog and Wnt Signaling in Skeletal Development
Co-host with Molecular and Cellular Pathology

09/15/05

Mone Zaidi, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Title: Pituitary Hormones and Bone Remodeling

09/14/05

Maurizio Pacifici, PhD, Associate Director, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University

Title: Mechanisms of Synovial Joint and Articular Cartilage Development
Co-host with Cell Biology

06-16-05

Roberto Pacifici, MD, Herndon Professor of Medicine and Director, Division of Endocrinology, Emory University School of Medicine

Title: Estrogen Repression of T Cell Function. Is This How Sex Steroids Prevent Bone Loss?

05-19-05

Laurie K. McCauley, DDS, PhD, William K. and Mary Anne Najjar Professor and Chair, Department of Periodontics, Prevention & Geriatrics, University of Michigan School of Dentistry

Title: Anabolic Actions of Parathyroid Hormone in Bone: Role of Cells in the Bone Marrow Microenvironment

04-21-05

Elizabeth Shane, MD, Professor of Clinical Medical Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons

Title: Transplantation Osteoporosis: Pathogenesis and Management

03-17-05

Vincent C. Hascall, PhD, Co-Director, Orthopaedic Research Center, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Title: Is the Matrix the Gate to Inflammation?

02-17-05

Gary S. Stein, MD, The Gerald L. Haidak, MD and Zelda S. Haidak Distinguished Professor and Chair of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical Center

Title: Intranuclear Organization and Assembly of Transcriptional Regulatory Machinery: Implications for Biological Control of Cancer

02-15-05

Yubo Sun, PhD, University of Miami School of Medicine

Title: Therapeutic Targets for Crystals-Associated Osteoarthritis
Cohost with Molecular and Cellular Pathology

02-10-05

Renny Franceschi, PhD, Professor, Department of Periodontics, Prevention & Geriatrics, University of Michigan School of Dentistry

Title: Transcriptional Regulation of Osteoblast Differentiation and Applications for Bone Regeneration
Cohost with Molecular and Cellular Pathology

01-20-05

Andrew F. Stewart, MD, Professor of Medicine and Chief, Division of Endocrinology, University of Pittsburgh

Title: Clinical Use of PTH-Related Protein as a Pure Skeletal Anabolic for the Treatment of Osteoporosis?

2004

11-18-04

Kurt D. Hankenson, DVM, PhD, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan

Title: Extracellular Factors Controlling Osteoblast Progenitor Differentiation: The Extracellular Matrix and Growth Factors – from Mice to Humans

11-11-04

Peter Rotwein, MD, Professor of Medicine and Director, Molecular Medicine Division, Oregon Health Sciences University

Title: The Long and Short of It: Molecular Analysis of the Growth Hormone – Stat5b-IGF-I-Growth Axis
Cohost with Molecular and Cellular Pathology

11-03-04

Sherry Werner, MD, Associate Professor of Pathology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Title: Role of CSF-1 in Skeletal Tissues
Cohost with School of Dentistry

10-21-04

Lynda F. Bonewald, PhD, Lefkowitz Professor and Director, Bone Biology Research Program Department of Oral Biology, University of Missouri at Kansas City

Title: Osteocytes as Mechanosensory Cells

09-02-04

Brendan F. Boyce, MD, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Director, Surgical Pathology Unit, University of Rochester Medical Center

Title: Roles for NF-kB, c-Fos and src in Osteoclasts

09-10-04
Russell T. Turner, PhD, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Mayo Clinic
Title: PTH: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
06-03-04

Andre van Wijnen, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Title: Molecular Biology of the Bone-Specific Transcription Factor Runx2/Cbfal

05-06-04

Karen Lyons, PhD, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Biological Chemistry, and Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology, UCLA

Title: Coordination of Growth Plate Morphogenesis by BMP and FGF Signaling Pathways

04-14-04
John S. Adams, MD, Professor and Director, Division of Endocrinology, University of California–Los Angeles

Title: Co-Modulators: Novel Regulators of Sterol/Steriod Hormone Action

04-14-04
Ted S. Gross, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, University of Washington

Title: A Hypoxic Osteocyte is a Stressed Osteocyte

04-14-04
Theresa A. Guise, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia

Title: Endothelins in States of Pathological Bone Remodeling

04-14-04
Mark S. Nanes, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Chief, Endocrinology Section

Title: Inhibition of Vitamin D Action by Tumor Necrosis Factor-Apha: New Insights in Transcriptional Cross-Talk.

04-14-04
Nicola C. Partridge, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

Title: PTH Responsive Genes and Novel Anabolic Targets

04-08-04
Yongwon Choi, PhD, Professor of Pathology, Department of Orthopaedics, University of Rochester Medical Center

Title: Regulation of the Osteoimmune System byt the TNRF and TCR Superfamilies

04-01-04
Regis J. O'Keefe, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, University of Rochester Medical Center

Title: TGF-Beta and BMP Signaling in Chondrocytes: Mechanisms Regulating Chondrocyte Maturation and Osteoarthritis

03-04-04

Joseph A. Lorenzo, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center

Title: Role of B-Lymphopoesis in Osteoclastogenesis

2003

 

12-04-03

Laura D. Carbone, MS, MD, Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee College of Medicine Memphis, Tennessee.

Title: The Relationship of Sodium Intake to Bone Health

12-02-03

Charles Turner, PhD, Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Associate Director, Biomedical Engineering at Indiana University

Title: Building Strong Bones: The Role of Genetics and Biomechanics on Skeletal Biology

 

10-23-03

Theresa A. Guise, MD, Gerald D. Aurbach Professor of Endocrinology, University of Virginia

Title: Molecular Mechanisms of Bone Mestastases: Implicaitons of Therapy

 

10-10-03

Donna Dean, PhD, Deputy Director of National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, NIH

Title: New Opportunities In Engineering And Imaging Sciences Research: a View from NIH’s Newest Institute

10-02-03
Robert S. Weinstein, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director, Bone Histomorphometry Laboratory, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Title: Glucocorticoid Action in Bone

06-12-03

David W. Rowe, MD, Professor of Genetics and Developmental Biology, University of Connecticut Health Center

Title: Diseases of Bone Viewed as Disorders of the Osteoprogenitor Lineage

05-30-03

Robert Marcus, MD, Medical Advisor, Eli Lilly and Company

Title: Parathyroid Hormone: A New Paradigm in Osteoporosis Therapeutics

05-01-03

Robert W. Downs, Jr., MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

Title: Paget’s Disease and Fibrous Dysplasia

05-01-03

F. Patrick Ross, PhD, Professor of Pathology, Washington University School of Medicine

Title: M-CSF Signaling in Osteoclast Formation and Function

04-09-03

Arnold I. Caplan, PhD, Professor of Biology and Director, Skeletal Research Center, Case Western Reserve University

Title: Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Their Use in Engineered Skeletal Tissue

04-09-03

Linda G. Griffith, PhD, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: Molecular Design of Biomaterials to Control Cell Behavior

04-09-03

Dawn R. Applegate, PhD, Managing Partner, Applegate & Associates, Inc.

Title: The Tissue Engineering Divide: An Explosion in Discovery/An Industry in Peril

03-06-03

J. Edward Puzas, PhD, Donald and Mary Clark Professor of Orthopaedics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Denistry

Title: Molecular Methods Identify Noavel Regulators of Osteoblast Function: Possible Targets for the Treatment of Osteoporosis

02-27-03

Yingzi Yang, PhD, Genetic Disease Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH

Title: Wnt Signaling in Limb and Skeletal Morphogenesis

01-16-03

Stavros C. Manolagas, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Director, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Title: Activation of Nongenotropic Estrogen-like Signaling (ANGELS): A Novel Appraoch to Bone Anabolism and Gender Neutral Therapy of Osteoporosis

01-09-03

Nelson B. Watts, MD, Professor of Medicine and Director, Osteoporosis Center, University of Cincinnati Medical Center

Title: The Ethics of Placebo Control Trials for Osteoporosis Therapy

2002
12-19-02

Thomas L. Clemens, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Molecular and Cellular Physiology, University of Cincinnati, Vontz Center for Molecular Studies

Title: Genetically Mnaipulated Mouse Models for the Study of IFG-I Action in Bone

11-05-02

Bjorn R. Olsen, MD, PhD, Hersey Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School

Title: Bone Mass and Osteoperosis Proliferation and Differentiation

10-03-02

Nancy E. Lane, MD, Associate Professor in Residence of Medicine and Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco

Title: A New Paradigm for Osteoperosis Treatment

05-23-02

Michael Kleerekoper, MD, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

Title: Markers Make It Better

05-02-02

Cecilia M. Giachelli, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington

Title: Vascular Calcification: Problems, Mechanisms, and Regulation

 

04-10-02

Julia B. Freeman, PhD, Centers Program Director, NIH, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases

Title: New Programs at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)

 

04-10-02

Charles H. Chesnut, III, MD, Professor, Department of Radiology, University of Washington Medical Center

Title: The Paradox of Osteoporotic Fracture: Bone Quantity Versus Bone Quality

 

04-10-02

Keith A. Hruska, MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University

Title: The Therapeutic Efficacy of BMP-7 in the Osteodystrophy of Chronic Kidney Disease

 

04-10-02

Kenneth W. Lyles, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center

Title: Why are Hip Fractures Bad and What Do We Do About Them?

 

04-10-02

Mark S. Nanes, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine

Title: Mechanism of TNF Inhibition of Osteoblast Differentiation

 

04-10-02

Nicola C. Partridge, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine

Title: Parathyroid Hormone Regulation of Transcription in the Osteoblast

 


04-02-02

Ernst B. Hunziker, MD, Professor and Chairman, M.E. Müller Institute for Biomechanics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Title: Tissue Engineering Approaches for Articular Cartilage Repair

1-31-02

Steven L. Teitelbaum, MD, Wilma and Rosewell Messing Professor of Pathology, Washington University

Title: Bone Metabloic Disorders

1-31-02

Philip A. Wood, DVM, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Genomics and Pathobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Title: Of Mice, Fat and Mitochondria.

 


1-24-02

Qian Chen, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Orthopeadics and Rehabilitation, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine

Title: Regulation of Bone Formation by PTHrP Through p38 MAP Kinase

 

1-08-02

Adele L. Boskey, PhD, Professor and Director of Research, Hosptial for Surgery.

Title: New Insights Into the Mechanism of Biologic Calcification

 

1-08-02

Bruce R. Treon, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Getatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Physician/Scientist, Geratrics Reserach Education and Clinical Center, Bronx VA Medical Center

Title: Osteoclast Differentiation and Regulation of Cathepsin K Gene Expression

2001

 

11-01-01

11-01-01

Rober P. Heaney, MD, John A. Creighton University Professor, Creighton University.

Title: Nutritional Co-Therapy for Osteoporosis: The Naamam Complex.
Title: How much Vitamin D Do we need ? and Where Shall We Get It?

9-20-01

Connie M. Weaver, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Department of Food & Nutrition, Purdue University

Title: Bone Resorption: Factors affecting and Analytical Methods



9-06-01

9-06-01
Ernesto Canalis, MD, St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, Connecticut

Title:
Mechanisms of Glucocorticoid Action in Bone Relevance to Glucocorticoid Induced Osteoporosis
Title: Role of Growth Factors and Their Antagonists in Bone Cell Function


8-23-01
Joseph M. Lane, MD, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY

Title: Orthopaedic Management of Osteoporosis Including Kyphoplasty



06-04-01

Jake (Jinkun) Chen, DDS, MS, PhD, Associate Professor, Departments of Pediatric Dentistry and Pathology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

Title - Bone Sialoproteins in Tooth and Bone Development

5-03-01

5-03-01

Jay R. Shapiro, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine, and Director, Interdepartmental Center for Space Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and Director, Osteogenesis Imperfecta Clinic, Kennedy Kreiger Institute.

Title - Osteogenesis Imperfecta and Treatment with Pamidronate
Title - Bone Loss and the Trip to Mars




04-26-01

Mone Zaidi, MD, PhD, FRCP, Professor, Department of Medicine and Geriatrics, Director Mount Sinai Bone Program, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Title - Post-Transplant Bone Disease: Clinical Spectrum, Molecular Mechanisms and Therapy



04-12-01

Stephen E. Harris, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center.

Title - Gene Expression Profiles During Osteoblast Differentiation and During Osteocyte Responses to Mechanical Strain

2000

 

11-09-00

Paul N. MacDonald, PhD, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve, Candidate for Leonard H. Robinson Endowed Chair in Pathology

Title: Mechanisms of Vitamin D-Mediated Trascription


09-27-00
Jake (Jinkun) Chen, DDS, MS, PhD, Associate Profesor, Departments of Pediatric Dentistry and Pathology, The University of Texas Health Science Center
Title: Bone Sialoproteins in Tooth and Bone Development


05-09-00
Karl L. Insogna, MD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University

Title: Signaling Pathways that Mediate CSF-1's Cytoskeletal Effects in Osteoclasts

04-06-00

Xu Feng, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University

Title: Regulation and Function of Integrins in Bone Cells

04-06-00
L. Darryl Quarles, MD, Professor of Medicine and Associate in Pathology, Duke University Medical Center

Title: PHEX Function in Osteoblasts: Evidence for a Bone/Kidney Axis

01-12-00
01-13-00
Steven L. Teitelbaum, MD, Wilma and Roswell Messing Professor of Pathology, Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center

Title: Ostepetrosis, Osteoporosis, and the Osteoclast
Title: The Molecular Mechanisms of Inflammatory Osteolysis
1999

 

11-03-99

11-03-99
11-04-99
11-06-99

Daniel T. Baran, MD, Professor, Departments of Medicine, Orthopedics and Physical Rehabilitation and Cell Biology, University of Maachusetts Memorial Health Care

Title: A Review of Randomized, Prospective Studies in the Treatment of Glucocorticoid-Induced Osteoporosis
Title: Why is it Important to Treat the Skeleton in Patients on Steroids?
Title: Therapies and Diagnostic Techniques in Osteoporosis
Title: An Orthopedic Approach to Osteoporosis


05-19-99
Joan A. McGowan, PhD, Chief, Musculoskeletal Disease Branch, National Institutes of Health

Title: NIH Research Initiatives in Metabolic Disease


05-19-99
Charles H. Chesnut, III, MD, Profesor, Department of Radiology, University of Washington Medical Center

Title: New Concepts of Osteoporosis Treatment

 

05-19-99

Carol V. Gay, PhD, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University

Title: Na/Ca Exchanger in Osteoblasts


05-19-99

Gerard Karsenty, MD, Associate Profesor, Department of Molecular and Humana Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine

Title: Genetic Control of Osteogenesis




05-19-99
Keith A. Hruska, MD, Ira M. Long Profesor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Washington University

Title: The Role of Gelsolin in Skeletal Homeostasis
1998



11-23-98

Stephen J. Marx, MD, Chief, Genetics and Endocrinology Section, Metabolic Diseases Branch National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Disease, National Institutes of Health

Title: Pathophysiology of the Calcipenic States



04-16-98
04-17-98
Richard F. Loeser, MD, Associate Professor, Paul Beeson Faculty Scholar on Aging, Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Wake Forest University

Title: Osteoarthritis Update
Title: Aging and Osteoarthritis: Decline in the Chondrocyte Response to IGF-1


02-12-98
Gerard Karsenty, MD PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine

Title: Genetic Analysis of Osteoblast Differentiation and Function

1997





05-29-97
Mone Zaidi, MD, PhD, FRCP, Professor, Department of Medicine and Geriatrics, Director Mount Sinai Bone Program, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Title: Biology of Calcium Sensing Receptors


03-11-97
Jasminka Ilich, PhD, RD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University

Title: Osteoporosis: It's Pediatric Causes and Prevention Opportunities
1996

11-20-96

11-21-96
11-21-96
11-22-96

Charles H. Chesnut, III, MD, The Pfizer/American College of Rheumatology Visiting Professor, University of Washington Medical Center

Title: Evaluation and Management of Steroid-Induced Osteoporosis
Title: New Developments in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Osteoporosis
Title: Clinical Utility of Biochemical Markers in Osteoporosis
Title: Diagnostic Imaging in Osteoporosis



06-19-96
Harmut Malluche, MD, Professor and Chief, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kentucky

Title: Rheumatology Grand Rounds: Management of Osteoporosis

01-04-96
Nelson B. Watts, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Emory University

Title: Osteoporosis: Overview and Update