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- World Osteoporosis Day and its world wide campaign entitled "Beat the Break" is celebrated in over 80 countries. The Calcium Metabolism and Osteoporosis Program at AUBMC launches its campaign in collaboration with the Dietary and Physical Therapy Departments, and Nursing Services, the week of October 22-26 to enhance osteoporosis awareness and prevention. More.
“AUBMC has set high standards for osteoporosis care through an integrated patient care approach”, states Professor El-Hajj Fuleihan Director of the Program. Its Densitometry Unit is a leading facility nationally and regionally that is exclusively staffed by faculty and technicians certified by the International Society of Clinical Densitometry. As of 2001, its nursing services have initiated a unique fall-assessment strategy to prevent falls in high risk patients admitted to the Medical Center. Falls are the leading cause for hip fractures, fractures that carry a mortality risk of 20-30%. Faculty from the Osteoporosis Program at AUBMC have conducted epidemiological research on osteoporosis, in collaboration with faculty at St Joseph University, research that led to the development of Lebanese Osteoporosis Guidelines. They also spearheaded a national effort to enhance osteoporosis care through founding a unique multi-specialty Lebanese Osteoporosis scientific society, OSTEOS. "Once again the Osteoporosis Program at AUBMC sets the pace in patient care excellence nationally and regionally", states Professor El-Hajj Fuleihan. Press releases announcing AUBMC's
campaign appeared in several newspapers.
IOF press release on October 19, 2007. New IOF reports shows that smoking, alcohol, being underweight, and poor nutrition harms our bones. More.
- “Effect of vitamin D replacement on musculoskeletal parameters in healthy school children: a randomized controlled trial” The first trial worldwide, to ever demonstrate the efficacy of vitamin D supplementation in adolescent school girls jcem.endojournals.org/cgi/rapidpdf/jc.2005-1436v1 . Vitamin D insufficiency is increasingly recognized as a major problem across continents, and even in sunny countries, as demonstrated in several publications by investigators in the program, but the effect of supplementation with vitamin D on musculoskeletal health in children was until to-date unproven. The above study conducted by investigators at AUB, demonstrates a beneficial effect of vitamin D supplementation in girls, specially pre-menarcheal girls. This effect seems to be partially mediated by beneficial effects on muscle mass, and possibly through increasing bone growth. This effect was not seen in boys.
The study was featured in Endocrine Today, a newspaper for Endocrinologists, and
in the January 2006 issue of Endocrine News, a publication of the Endocrine Society. The study will presented
as invited oral presentations at:
- The 6th International Meeting on Nutritional Aspects of Osteoporosis, Lausanne, May 4-6, 2006;
- The Annual meeting of the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research, Boston, Sept 15-19, 2006.
- Featured vitamin D trials in media: Two vitamin D randomized trials in children and adults with epilepsy conducted by Dr.El-Hajj Fuleihan and Dr. Mikati, featured in Reuters Health (More),CNS News(More) and Applied Neurology www.appneurology.com/
- Oral presentations at recent scientific meetings:
- Nabulsi M., Mahfoud Z., Maalouf J., Arabi A., El-Hajj Fuleihan G. Effect of maternal veiling on adolescent musculoskeletal health. 6th International Symposium on Nutritional Aspects of Osteoporosis Lausanne-Switzerland May 2006.
Chosen for an oral presentation.
- Kimball SM, El-Hajj Fuleihan G, Vieth R. Dosing with the upper limit for vitamin D3 intake has no effect on serum calcium or calcitriol levels in school children. 13th workshop on Vitamin D, Victoria, British Columbia, Vancouver, April 8-12, 2006.
- Maalouf J, Beck T, Nabulsi M, Arabi A, El-Hajj Fuleihan G. Impact of vitamin D supplementation on hip structural analysis parameters in children and adolescents.
28th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research, Sept 14-19,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2006. Oral presentation.
- Invited presentation for the Clinical Symposium on
Pediatric Bone Disease; El-Hajj Fuleihan G. " Calcium, vitamin D and musculoskeletal health: from conception to adolescence". 28th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sept 15, 2006.
- Arabi A, Mahfoud Z, Zahed L, Maalouf J, Nabusli M, Choucair M, El-Hajj Fuleihan G. Vitamin D Receptor Gene Polymorphisms modulate the Musculoskeletal
Response to Vitamin D Supplementation in Healthy Girls. 29th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, 16-19 September 2007, Hawaii, Honolulu.
Oral presentation.
- Awards:
- The Calcium Metabolism and Osteoporosis Program was awarded
the Departmental Outstanding Clinical Program Award on June 12,
2004.
- Dr El-Hajj Fuleihan, Program Director, was awarded the Endocrine-Society-JCEM Outstanding
Reviewer Award, June 2007.
- Joyce Maalouf: Research Assistant in the Program was
awarded the AUB Dean Thomas Sutherland Award for Graduate Excellence for 2006-2007, for her Master thesis entitled: "Interaction between dietary calcium, exercise and leptin and their impact on
musculoskeletal parameters in children and adolescents".
Multicenter Trials: The program is participating in two
phase III multicenter trials evaluating several bisphosphonates in the
treatment of osteoporosis. One is evaluating the safety and
efficacy of Risedronate in treating osteoporosis in men, the
second is evaluating novel therapy using a bisphosphonate once
monthly compared to daily, in preventing bone loss and fractures
in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis.
BMD certification course hosted by OSTEOS and ISCD: Clinician and technologist bone densitometry courses, certification exams, and vertebral fracture assessment course, March 24-27-2007,reexamination: July 28-2007 & October 6-2007.(More)
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