The National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF) has announced that Dr. Felicia Cosman, Medical Director of the Clinical Research Center at Helen Hayes Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physician and Surgeons in New York, has been selected as its new Editor-in-Chief of Osteoporosis International after an extensive search. Dr. Cosman joins Dr. John Kanis, Co-Editor in Chief representing the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF).
Osteoporosis International (OI) is an international multi-disciplinary journal, a joint initiative of the IOF and NOF. OI provides a forum for the publication, communication and exchange of current research related to the diagnosis, prevention, treatment and management of osteoporosis and other metabolic bone diseases. The Editor-in-Chief also oversees, in collaboration with IOF, the journal Archives in Osteoporosis.
Dr. Cosman joined Helen Hayes Hospital in West Haverstraw, New York in 1988 where she serves as an osteoporosis specialist, clinical scientist and Medical Director of the Clinical Research Center. She is also Professor of Medicine at Columbia University. Her research has included studies on the causes of osteoporosis and how estrogen, SERMS, vitamin D, bisphosphonates, teriparatide and denosumab work as treatments for osteoporosis.
She is the recipient of research grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and multiple pharmaceutical companies. Dr. Cosman has published over 130 peer-reviewed articles in the osteoporosis field in journals that include the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Dr. Cosman served as the review editor of Osteoporosis International before being named editor-in-chief, was an Associate Editor for Bone, and is a regular reviewer for the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research and Calcified Tissue International.
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