Welcome Session and Research Update (OIF Virtual Conference 2020)
The opening session welcomes community members and speakers to the 2020 OIF Virtual conference. OIF Medical Advisory Council member and Brittle Bone Disorders Consortium Principal Investigator Dr. Brendan Lee present an OI research update.
Dr. Lee's slides are available at https://oif.org/wp-content/uploads/20...
Speakers:
Francis Glorieux, OC, MD, PhD –Emeritus Director of Research at the Shriners Hospital for Children (Montreal, Quebec); Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics and Human Genetics at McGill University; Principal Investigator of the Brittle Bone Disorders Consortium site in Montreal, QC, Canada; *Chairman of OIF Medical Advisory Council
Tracy Hart, CEO – Chief Executive Officer of the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation; Co-Chair of the Rare Bone Disease Alliance; active participant on behalf of the OIF in the Brittle Bone Disorders Consortium.
Brendan Lee, MD, PhD – Robert and Janice McNair Endowed Chair in Molecular and Human Genetics, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM); Pediatrician and Geneticist at Baylor College of Medicine; Principal Investigator of the Brittle Bone Disorders Consortium. *OIF Medical Advisory Council Member
Cameron Penn – President of the OIF Board of Directors
Laura Tosi, MD – Director of the Bone Health Program at Children’s National Hospital; Associate Professor of Orthopedics and Pediatrics at George Washington University *OIF Medical Advisory Council Member
Maegen Wallace, MD – Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon for the OI Clinic at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha, NE.