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ROBERT LINDSAY, M.B.Ch.B., Ph.D., F.R.C.P.
Dr. Robert Lindsay is Chief of Internal Medicine at Helen
Hayes Hospital and Director of its Clinical Research Center.
A Professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University, Dr.
Lindsay has authored over three hundred journal articles,
abstracts, and book chapters on osteoporosis and estrogen
replacement therapy. He is a graduate of the University of
Glasgow, where he received his BSc, M.B.Ch.B., Ph.D., and
F.R.C.P. Dr. Lindsay completed an internship and residency
in Medicine at the Western Infirmary, and an internship in
Surgery at the Southern General Hospital, both in Glasgow.
He is an Accredited Specialist in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology
with the Royal College of Physicians, a Fellow of the American
College of Nutrition, a Fellow of the American College of
Endocrinology, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine,
and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Dr. Lindsay is a member of the American Society for Bone and
Mineral Research from whom he received the Bartter Award for
excellence in clinical research in 1997. He is also a member
of the Endocrine Society and the American College of Physicians
and is an Editor of Osteoporosis International. He is past
President of the National Osteoporosis Foundation and is the
1999 recipient of the Foundation's Scientific Leadership Award.
FELICIA COSMAN, M.D.
Dr. Felicia Cosman joined Helen Hayes Hospital in 1988 and
serves as an osteoporosis specialist, clinical scientist and
Medical Director of the Clinical Research Center. She is also
an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University.
Dr. Cosman is a graduate of Cornell University and Stony Brook
Medical School. She received her internal medicine training
and completed her endocrinology fellowship at Columbia Presbyterian
Medical Center. Her research has included studies on the causes
of osteoporosis and how estrogen and SERMS work in clinical
models as treatments for osteoporosis. She is the recipient
of research grants from the National Institutes of Health,
the Department of Defense and the National Multiple Sclerosis
Society, as well as several pharmaceutical companies. Dr.
Cosman serves on the Editorial Board of Osteoporosis International
and is a regular reviewer for the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology
and Metabolism, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research and Calcified
Tissue International. In addition, she has served as Clinical
Director of the National Osteoporosis Foundation since 1996.
JERI WANZOR NIEVES, Ph.D.
Dr. Jeri Nieves is Director of the hospital's Bone Density
Testing Center and Administrator of the Clinical Research
Center. She is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Public Health
in Epidemiology at Columbia University. Dr. Nieves has co-authored
over 48 journal articles, abstracts, and book chapters on
nutrition, epidemiology and osteoporosis. She is a graduate
of Cornell University, where she received a Masters Degree
in Nutrition, and Columbia University, where she received
her Ph.D. in Epidemiology. Her current main interest is in
calcium and vitamin D and the prevention and treatment of
osteoporosis. Dr. Nieves is a recipient of two grants from
the National Institutes of Health to study methods of measuring
bone mass and a nutritional treatment for osteoporosis in
black postmenopausal women, and is also a co-Principal Investigator
on a grant from the Department of Defense to study bone mass
and stress fractures in USMA cadets.
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