ISCD Position Updates Including Trabecular Bone Score
Update on current ISCD Position guidelines 2023-2024.
OBJECTIVES
- Review 2023 ISCD Position Statements for Screening.
- Diagnosis of low bone mass/osteoporosis including VFA/Trabecular bone score, BMD reporting, and highlight differences from 2019 positions.
Christopher Shuhart, MD, MHA, CCD
Director of the Bone Health and Osteoporosis Center
Swedish Medical Group
Dr. Shuhart is the founder and Director of the Bone Health and Osteoporosis Center at Swedish Medical Group in Seattle, Washington. He is Past-President of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) from 2019-2020, with multiple years in Executive and Board of Directors roles, and has served on numerous ISCD committees and task forces. He received ISCD's Paul Miller Service Award in 2022.
He is a co-author on the ISCD’s 2016 publication of “Best Practices” in the Journal of Clinical Densitometry, and was the Organizing Chair for the 2019 ISCD Position Development Conference (PDC) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, as well as lead author of the 2019 PDC Executive Summary. He is the Administrative Chair for the 2023 PDC.
Dr. Shuhart received his medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School in 1987, and his Masters in Health Administration from the University of Washington in 2009. He is board certified in Family Medicine since 1990.
