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ENDO 09 Annual Meeting

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CLINICAL - Bone & Bariatric Surgery: Losing More Than Weight

Track : CLINICAL

Program Code: S41-2

Date: Friday, June 12, 2009

Time: 10:00 AM to 10:30 AM EST

SPEAKER :

MF Holick, MD, PhD, Boston Univ Sch of Med.
Disclosure: Speaker, Merck & Co., Procter & Gamble, Novartis Pharmaceuticals; Consultant, Amgen, Bayer, Inc.

Michael F. Holick, Ph.D., M.D. is Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics; Director of the General Clinical Research Center; and Director of the Bone Health Care Clinic and the Heliotherapy, Light, and Skin Research Center at Boston University Medical Center. After earning a Ph.D. degree in biochemistry, a medical degree, and completing a research postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Dr. Holick completed a residency in medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Dr. Holick has made numerous contributions to the field of the biochemistry, physiology, metabolism, and photobiology of vitamin D for human nutrition. He determined the mechanism for how vitamin D is synthesized in the skin, demonstrated the effects of aging, obesity, latitude, seasonal change, sunscreen use, skin pigmentation, and clothing on this vital cutaneous process. Dr. Holick has established global recommendations advising sunlight exposure as an integral source of vitamin D. He has helped increase awareness in the pediatric and medical communities regarding vitamin D deficiency pandemic, and its role in causing not only metabolic bone disease, and osteoporosis in adults, but increasing risk of children and adults developing common deadly cancers, autoimmune diseases, including type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis, and heart disease. Dr. Holick is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine, a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition, and a member of numerous organizations including the American Academy of Dermatology, American Society for Bone and Mineral Research and the American Association of Physicians. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the American Skin Association�s Psoriasis Research Achievement Award in 2002, the American College of Nutrition Award in 2002, the Robert H. Herman Memorial Award in Clinical Nutrition from the American Society for Clinical Nutrition in 2003, the Annual General Clinical Research Centers� Program Award for Excellence in Clinical Research in 2006, and most recently the Linus Pauling Functional Medicine Award from the Institute for Functional Medicine in 2007 and the Eli Lilly Award from the Canadian Endocrine Society in 2007. Dr. Holick serves on a number of national committees including NIH and NASA, editorial boards, has organized and/or co-chaired several international symposia and is Editor in Chief for the Journal for Clinical Laboratories and Laboratories Related to Blood Transfusion. He has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications, and written more than 250 review articles, as well as numerous book chapters. He has acted as editor and/or co-editor on 11 books, and has written the book entitled, The UV Advantage.

Audio Synchronized to PowerPoint

(Code: S41-2)

This session is a part of:

Complete Clinical and Translational Meeting Compilation (Online Access + DVD-ROM)