Center for Metabolic Bone Disease

Sponsors:
The National Institutes of Health, the Center for Aging, the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, the Alabama Department of Public Health

Summary:
The Center for Metabolic Bone Disease (CMBD) is a multidisciplinary research center that is currently working with more than 9 different schools and 29 different departments to provide a broad-based multidisciplinary research and training center focused on metabolic bone disease. The mission is to support, catalyze, and integrate clinical activities, clinical research, basic research, and education. These activities are integrated into a comprehensive program, emphasizing the critical interface between basic and clinical research. Educational activities characterize all components, including education for the patients, the general public, medical students, paramedical personnel, graduate students, and physicians in practice.

Goals:

• Provide a multidisciplinary Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment Center at the Kirklin Clinic which will deliver state-of-the-art patient care in the geographic region
• Enhance the ongoing bone metabolism research and to stimulate new research through multidisciplinary interactions
• Improve existing facilities and establish new shared resource facilities for investigators studying metabolic bone diseases
• Promote an educational initiative in the field of osteoporosis for the medical community, as well as for patients and the community at large
• Provide efficient administrative and fiscal support

Cores:

• Human Bone Cell Production Core (director, Xu Cao, Ph.D.)
• Histomorphometry and Molecular Analyses Core (director, Gene P. Siegal, M.D., Ph.D.)
• Small Animal Bone Phenotyping Core (director, Timothy R. Nagy, Ph.D.)
• Experimental Biomechanics Core (director, Alan W. Eberhardt, Ph.D.)

A description and contact information of the cores can be found on the CMBD's website: http://cmbd.path.uab.edu.

Primary Contact Person:

Jay McDonald, M.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology
Director, Center for Metabolic Bone Disease
Editor-In-Chief, The American Journal of Pathology
WP P210
615 18th Street South
Birmingham, AL 35233-7331
(tel) (205) 934-4303
(fax) (205) 934-5499
Website: http://cmbd.path.uab.edu

Leaders and Key Staff:

• Edward Abraham, M.D.
• Samuel Brown Jr, Ed.D.
• Xu Cao, Ph.D.
• Thomas L. Clemens, Ph.D.
• Alan W. Eberhardt, Ph.D.
• Robert P. Kimberly, M.D.
• Cora E. Lewis, M.D., M.S.P.H.
• Mary J. MacDougall, Ph.D.
• Richard Mayne, Ph.D.
• Jay M. McDonald, M.D.
• Larry W. Moreland, M.D.
• Sarah L. Morgan, M.D., R.D., F.A.C.P.
• John D. Mountz, M.D., Ph.D.
• Timothy R. Nagy, Ph.D.
• Kenneth G. Saag, M.D., M.Sc.
• Gene P. Siegal, M.D., Ph.D.
• Timothy M. Wick, Ph.D.

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