IOF Medal of Achievement
In 2006 IOF introduced a prestigious new award, the IOF Medal of Achievement, to honor individual researchers who have significantly advanced the field of osteoporosis through their original and outstanding scientific contributions.
The award underlines important aspect's of IOF’s mission – to increase understanding and awareness of osteoporosis and to promote medical innovation and improved care. The IOF Medal of Achievement, which includes US$5000 in prize money, will be presented every second year on the occasion of the IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis.
Winner of 2008 IOF Medal of Achievement
The 2008 IOF Medal of Achievement was awarded to Professor Ego Seeman, IOF Board member and leading scientist and educator in the field of osteoporosis. Due to the cancellation of the IOF World Congress in Bangkok in December 2008, the award ceremony was deferred to the Joint ISCD-IOF meeting held from March 11-14, 2009 in Orlando, Florida.
IOF President Professor John Kanis presented the award, stating,” Ego Seeman is among the most respected thought-leaders in the field of osteoporosis research, and is renowned as both a scientist and as an educator, scientific editor and speaker.”
Ego Seeman is Professor of Medicine and Endocrinologist at the Austin Hospital, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. He is Past President of the Australian and New Zealand Bone Mineral Society, Board member of the International Osteoporosis Foundation, International Bone Mineral Society and Osteoporosis Australia. Professor Seeman has been instrumental in organizing many conferences in Australia and Asia and has actively promoted educational exchange in the region through scientific meetings. Among other major meetings, he has convened the third IOF Regional Conference on Osteoporosis in Asia and the University of Melbourne Training Course in Osteoporosis for the past 10 years. He is the author of some 270 publications and 22 book chapters, and is editor of Progress in Osteoporosis, Clinical Editor of Bone-Key and Associate Editor of Osteoporosis International. He is an Editorial Board member of many other journals in the bone field and has contributed invited editorials and reviews to leading medical journals. He has contributed to studies of the definition, epidemiology, pathogenesis and treatment of osteoporosis in women, men, corticosteroid-related disease, genetics, studies of skeletal growth, racial differences in skeletal structure, role of exercise, and risk factors for osteoporosis, as well as studies of structural diversity in determining bone strength. For his work Professor Seeman was awarded the 2002 American Society of Bone Mineral Research Fred C. Bartter Award.
Winner of First IOF Medal of Achievement (June 2006)
Professor Pierre Delmas, from Lyon, France, received the prestigious award which was presented during the 2006 IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis (IOF WCO) in Toronto, Canada in June 2006.
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| Pierre D. Delmas (right) receives award from CSA Chair René Rizzoli (center) and IOF CEO Daniel Navid. |
Pierre D. Delmas is Professor of Medicine and Rheumatology at the Université Claude Bernard in Lyon, France. As Director of the INSERM Research Unit on Pathophysiology of Osteoporosis at the Edouard Herriot Hospital of Lyon, he manages basic and clinical research programs in the field of metabolic bone diseases, with a special focus on osteoporosis. He has authored over 600 articles in international scientific publications and is an Editor-in-Chief of the journal Osteoporosis International. Since the inception of IOF in 1998, Professor Delmas has served as the President, and a Board member, and is actively involved in the development of international educational programs on osteoporosis.
