2nd Conference on Skeletal Biology and Medicine

Conference Organizers

Mone Zaidi, MD, PhD

Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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Mone Zaidi is professor of medicine, geriatrics, and physiology and biophysics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the director of the Mount Sinai Bone Program. His research focuses on the regulation of skeletal remodeling by hormones, ions, and the vasculature. He has held several distinguished leadership positions, including acting as chair of the NIH's orthopedics and musculoskeletal grant review panel, and chair on two occasions of the Department of Veteran Affairs' endocrinology grant review board. Zaidi came to Mount Sinai from previous appointments at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and the University of London. He received his MD and PhD degrees from the University of London, where he also received his clinical training under the tutelage of Iain MacIntrye, FRS, the co-discoverer of calcitonin.

Gerard Karsenty, MD, PhD

Columbia University
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Gerard Karsenty is professor and chair of the Department of Genetics and Development at Columbia University Medical Center, where he studies genetic and hormonal aspects of skeleton formation and maintenance. He came to Columbia from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, where he was professor of molecular and human genetics and served as scientific director of the Bone Disease Program of Texas. He was a postdoctoral fellow and faculty member in molecular genetics at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center before joining the Baylor faculty in 1998. He also performed postdoctoral studies at the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute before moving to Houston in 1987. Karsenty holds an MD-PhD degree from the University of Paris, France.

Steven L. Teitelbaum, MD

Washington University School of Medicine
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Steven Teitelbaum is the Wilma and Roswell Messing Professor of Pathology at Washington University School of Medicine. Teitelbaum studies the regulation of osteoblast and osteoclast differentiation in order to understand and treat bone pathologies such as osteoporosis. He has served as president of both the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology and the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. He has received numerous awards for his leadership including the William F. Neuman Award of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. In 2004, he received the Second Century Award fromWashington University School of Medicine.

Keynotes

Aaron Ciechanover, MD, DSc

Center for Cancer and Vascular Biology Research
Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Haifa
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Laurie H. Glimcher, MD

Harvard School of Public Health
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Shigeaki Kato, PhD

The University of Tokyo
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John T. Potts, Jr., MD

Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
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David L. Rimoin, MD, PhD

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center / University of California, Los Angeles
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Andrew P. McMahon, PhD

Harvard University
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Speakers

Roy K. Aaron, MD

Brown University
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Etsuko Abe, PhD

Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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John S. Adams, MD

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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Narayan G. Avadhani, PhD

University of Pennsylvania
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Itai Bab, DMD

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Roland Baron, DDS, PhD

Yale University School of Medicine
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Harry C. Blair, MD

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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Lynda F. Bonewald, PhD

University of Missouri
Kansas City School of Dentistry
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Brendan F. Boyce, MD

University of Rochester Medical Center
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Arthur E. Broadus, MD, PhD

Yale University School of Medicine
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Ernesto Canalis, MD

Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
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Xu Cao, PhD

University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Jill Carrington, PhD

National Institute on Aging – NIH
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Yongwon Choi, PhD

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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Sylvia Christakos, PhD

UMDNJ–New Jersey Medical School
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Roberto Civitelli, MD

Washington University School of Medicine
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Thomas L. Clemens, PhD

University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Denis R. Clohisy, MD

University of Minnesota
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Barry S. Coller, MD

The Rockefeller University
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David W. Dempster, PhD

Columbia University
Helen Hayes Hospital
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Renny T. Franceschi, PhD

University of Michigan Schools of Dentistry and Medicine
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Paul S. Frenette, MD

Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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Francis H. Glorieux, MD, PhD

McGill University
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Steven R. Goldring, MD

Hospital for Special Surgery
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Peter D. Gorevic, MD

Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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Theresa A. Guise, MD

University of Virginia, Charlottesville
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Mark C. Horowitz, PhD

Yale University School of Medicine
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Harald W. Jueppner, MD

Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
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Frederick S. Kaplan, MD

University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
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Sundeep Khosla, MD

Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
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Henry M. Kronenberg, MD

Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
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David L. Lacey, MD

Amgen Inc.
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Phoebe S. Leboy, PhD

University of Pennsylvania
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Alice C. Levine, MD

Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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Iain MacIntyre, MD, PhD

Queen Mary University of London
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T. John Martin, MD, DSc

University of Melbourne
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Ronald N. Margolis, PhD

National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases – NIH
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Toshio Matsumoto, MD, PhD

University of Tokushima Graduate School of Medicine
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Jay M. McDonald, MD

University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Paul D. Miller, MD

University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
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Gregory R. Mundy, MD

Vanderbilt University Center for Bone Biology
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Maria I. New, MD

Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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Alan Nixon, DVM

Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
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Regis J. O'Keefe, MD, PhD

University of Rochester Medical Center
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Roberto Pacifici, MD

Emory University School of Medicine
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Maurizio Pacifici, PhD

Thomas Jefferson University
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Nicola C. Partridge, PhD

UMDNJ–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
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Michael Pazianas, MD

University of Pennsylvania
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L. Darryl Quarles, MD

University of Kansas
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Sevgi B. Rodan, PhD

University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine
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G. David Roodman, MD, PhD

University of Pittsburgh
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Clifford J. Rosen, MD

St. Joseph Hospital
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Michael Rosenblatt, MD

Tufts University School of Medicine
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Clive Rosendorff, MD

Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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F. Patrick Ross, PhD

Washington University School of Medicine
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Graham G. Russell, MD, PhD

Oxford University
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Kuber T. Sampath, PhD

Genzyme Corporation
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Mitchell B. Schaffler, PhD

Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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Ernestina Schipani, MD, PhD

Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
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Edward M. Schwarz, PhD

University of Rochester School of Medicine
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Stuart L. Silverman, MD

Cedars-Sinai/University of California, Los Angeles
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Allen M. Spiegel, MD

Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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René St-Arnaud, PhD

Shriners Hospital for Children; McGill University
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Li Sun, MD, PhD

Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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Hiroshi Takayanagi, MD, PhD

Tokyo Medical and Dental University
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Sakae Tanaka, MD, PhD

The University of Tokyo
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Peter C. Taylor, BM Bch, PhD

Imperial College London
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Rajesh V. Thakker, MD

University of Oxford
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Mehrdad Tondravi, PhD

Center for Scientific Review - NIH
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Dwight A. Towler, MD, PhD

Washington University School of Medicine
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Charles H. Turner, PhD

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
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Michael P. Whyte, MD

Shriners Hospital for Children
Washington University School of Medicine
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Sunil J. Wimalawansa, MD, PhD

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
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Toshiyuki Yoneda, PhD

Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry
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Alberta Zallone, PhD

University of Bari
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Megan Stephan

Megan Stephan studied transporters and ion channels at Yale University for nearly two decades before giving up the pipettor for the pen. She specializes in covering research at the interface between biology, chemistry, and physics. Her work has appeared in The Scientist and Yale Medicine. Stephan holds a PhD in biology from Boston University.