EuGMS SIG on FALLS AND FRACTURES OPEN

Dear Colleagues,

The EuGMS SIG on Falls and Fractures is glad to invite you to its OPEN meeting. The meeting will take place on 18th February 2025, 16:30 to 17:30 CET.

The agenda of the upcoming meeting is as follows:

1.Dr. Gustavo Duque
Double Jeopardy: Exploring the Impact of Osteosarcopenia on Health Outcomes

Dr. Gustavo Duque, MD, Ph.D., FRACP, FGSA is a geriatrician and biomedical scientist with a research interest in the mechanisms, potential therapies, and biomarkers for age-related bone loss, osteoporosis, sarcopenia, osteosarcopenia, and frailty in older persons. He is also studying the effect of vitamin D, exercise, protein and nutraceuticals on bone and muscle mass.
His initial training included Internal Medicine at Javeriana University (Colombia) and Geriatric Medicine, which he completed at McGill University in Montreal (Canada). Subsequently, he obtained his Ph.D. at McGill University in 2003 with a thesis entitled ‘Molecular Changes of the Aging Osteoblast’ under the supervision of Dr. Richard Kremer. Between 2003 and November 2007, he joined the McGill University Medical School faculty as a member of the Division of Geriatric Medicine and as a Researcher at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research. In November 2007, he moved to Australia to join the Faculty as Associate Professor and Head of the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Director of the Musculoskeletal Ageing Research Program at Sydney Medical School Nepean -University of Sydney. In 2012, he was promoted to Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney. Between 2015 and 2022, Dr. Duque was Chair of Medicine and Director of the Australian Institute for Musculoskeletal Science at the University of Melbourne.
In 2022, Dr. Duque assumed the roles of Full Professor, Dr. Joseph Kaufmann Chair in Geriatric Medicine, Director - RUISSS McGill Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Health of Seniors/ Simone & Edouard Shouela (CEDurable), and Principal Investigator at the Bone, Muscle & Geroscience Group of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences, one of the official journals of the Gerontological Society of America. He is also the Chair of the recently created Canadian Translational Geroscience Network.
As a Geriatrician and Clinician-Investigator, Dr. Duque has implemented several Falls and Fractures clinics (the most recent ones at the MUHC and the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal) where patients are comprehensively assessed for falls and fracture risk. His clinical trials unit conducts several trials testing the effect of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments for age-related musculoskeletal diseases. He is the author of more than 300 peer-reviewed articles and multiple book chapters and has edited five books in the aging and musculoskeletal fields.

2. Prof. Antony Johansen
Real World Registries for Improving Clinical Outcomes and Sustainability
Antony Johansen has worked in the trauma unit of the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff since 1994, and was appointed as the UK’s first full-time consultant orthogeriatrician in 1997. He co-authored the 2007 British Orthopaedic Association’s ‘Blue Book’, the 2011 NICE hip fracture guideline, and since 2013 has been orthogeriatric lead for the National Hip Fracture Database (NHFD) at the Royal College of Physicians, London.
More: https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/honorary/johansena1

3. Dr. Alvaro Casas Herrero
Short update of the SIG activities

We look forward to meeting many of you online!

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Please notice that the meeting will be recorded and that the audio and video recordings might be used by the EuGMS for dissemination on the EuGMS website and social media.

Kind regards,
Co-chairs: Dr. Alvaro Casas Herrero; Prof. Carmelinda Ruggiero

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