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Researcher honored for long-time service to International Osteoporosis Foundation
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The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) awarded Jean-Yves Reginster, MD, with the prestigious Pierre Delmas Award at the European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis/IOF 2009 joint meeting last week in Athens.
A professor of epidemiology at the University of Liège, Belgium, Reginster is a founding member of the IOF board and served as the IOF general secretary from 1998 to 2007.
He received the award from Cyrus Cooper, MA, DM, FRCP, FMedSci, chair of the IOF Committee of Scientific Advisors, at an award ceremony held at the opening of the meeting on March 18, according to a press release.
The award, formerly known as the IOF President’s award, was renamed in memory of the late Pierre D. Delmas, MD, PhD, the renowned founding president of the IOF from Lyon, who passed away in July 2008.
At the presentation of the award, Cooper stated, “This award is given to an individual who has made a significant and unstinting contribution to the advancement of the work of the International Osteoporosis Foundation. Jean-Yves Reginster has been instrumental in the creation and growth of IOF, placing his great expertise in the service of IOF and the osteoporosis community as a whole,” according to the press release.
Reginster is also president of the Department of Public Health Sciences and director of the Bone and Cartilage Research Unit at the University Hospital of Liège.
An active researcher, Reginster has authored more than 500 publications on the pathophysiology of osteoarthritis, the epidemiology of osteoporosis and arthritis, health economics and the clinical management of osteoporosis and osteoarthritis.
He is also general secretary of the Belgium Bone Club, president of the European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis, and president of the Group for the Respect of Ethics and Excellence in Sciences.