Bess Dawson-Hughes, MD

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Geoff Block, MD
Director of Clinical Research, Denver Nephrology

David Allen Bushinsky, MD
Professor of Medicine and of Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Rochester School of Medicine, and Chief, Nephrology Division, University of Rochester Medical Center

Russell Chesney, MD
Le Bonheur Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

John Cunningham, CVO, BM BCh, DM, FRCP
Professor of Nephrology, UCL Medical School, London; Consultant Nephrologist, Royal Free Hospital, London, and The London Clinic; Physician, King Edward VII Hospital, London

Bess Dawson-Hughes, MD
Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, and Senior Scientist and Director, Bone Metabolism Laboratory Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University

Glenville Jones, PhD
Head of Biochemistry Department, Professor of Biochemistry & Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston Ontario

Kevin Martin, MD
Director of Research, Division of Nephrology, St. Louis University School of Medicine

L. Darryl Quarles, MD
Director of Division of Nephrology, and Associate Dean for Research, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Isidro Salusky, MD
Professor of Pediatric Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, and Director of Clinical Research Center, UCLA School of Medicine

Stuart Sprague, DO
Chief, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, North Shore University Health System, and Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

Dr. Dawson-Hughes is Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and directs the Metabolic Bone Disease Clinic at the Tufts-New England Medical Center. Previously, she was Chief of the Calcium and Bone Metabolism Laboratory at the Human Nutrition and Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. Dr. Dawson-Hughes graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine and completed an internship at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Brighton, MA. She became Chief Resident in Medicine at St. Elizabeth's Hospital and went on to complete a research fellowship in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. She has received recognition with the Individual National Research Service Award from Harvard Medical School in both 1981 and 1982, membership in Alpha Omega Alpha, and the Bolton L. Corson Medal from The Franklin Institute for excellence in research on the role of dietary calcium and vitamin D in promoting bone health. She has published over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, abstracts, and reviews.