Researcher

Title

• Director, Biomedical Laboratory, Shriners Hospital for Children, Montreal.
• Pediatrician, Shriners Hospital for Children, Montreal.
• Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University.

• Postdoctoral Fellowship in Molecular Bone Biology and Bone Histomorphometry, Shriners Hospital for Children, Montreal, 1997-1999.
• Residency in Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, University of Cologne, Germany, 1992-1997.
• MD, Munich Technical University, Germany, 1991.

• Pediatric osteoporosis;
• Muscle-bone interaction in children;
• Bone dysplasias;
• Bone histomorphometry.

Awards and Distinctions

• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Neuronal and Musculoskeletal Interactions, 2009.
• Junior 2 Clinical Research Scholar, Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec, 2008.
• Hufeland Award, German Health Insurance (preventive medicine), 2003.

Presentations

• Skeletal development in children: Beyond getting longer, denser, heavier. 8th Joint Meeting of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society/European Society for Pediatric Endocrinology, New York, USA, September 12, 2009.
• The muscle-bone unit in osteogenesis imperfecta type I. 5th Black Forest Forum for Musculoskeletal Interactions, Bad Liebenzell, Allemagne, May 30, 2009.
• Management of osteogenesis imperfecta. 2nd Joint Meeting of the International Bone & Mineral Society and the Australian and New Zealand Bone & Mineral Society, Sydney, Australia, March 24, 2009.
• Bisphosphonate therapy in fibrous dysplasia. 5th Annual International Pediatric Orthopaedic Symposium, Orlando, USA, December 3, 2008.
• Vibration therapy. Workshop on adults with cerebral palsy of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine, Atlanta, USA, September 15, 2008.
• Regulation of bone strength in children. 30th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, Montreal, September 12, 2008.