Living with Hypoparathyroidism: What's New and What is Upcoming

Lynn Kohlmeier, M.D. received her undergraduate degree from Yale University, and her medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr Kohlmeier was a resident in internal medicine at the New England Deaconess Hospital at Harvard Medical School and returned to Stanford for her endocrinology fellowship. As a Clinical Investigator in the Endocrinology Hypertension Division, Skeletal Health and Osteoporosis at Harvard Medical School, she did her post-doctorate training and received a Young Investigator Award for her work with the calcium-sensing receptor. Dr. Kohlmeier has been director of Endocrinology at Spokane Osteoporosis as an independent practitioner, since moving to Spokane in 1999, and founded and continues to coordinate the annual Spokane Bone Club meeting. She is a reviewer for the Journal of Clinical Densitometry, Metabolism, and Osteoporosis International, and is an executive board member for Advances in Mineral Metabolism/American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. With Strong Start which she founded in 2001, Dr Kohlmeier and her DXA technicians, over-read DXA BMD scans for DXA sites throughout the Northwest, providing quality reports and osteoporosis guidelines. Dr Kohlmeier is now also working in rural clinics in Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho, and continues her involvement in bone health research with Arthrits Northwest in Spokane, WA. Dr Kohlmeier is director and co-founder, with Marla Emde, of the non-profit 'Strides for Strong Bones', organizing community bone density screening and education events, as well as an annual 'Strides for Strong Bones' walk/run. With the help of many volunteers, she has organized hundreds of ‘Osteoporosis’ triathlon teams and provided free bone density screening and osteoporosis education for thousands of men and women at the annual Westplains Wunderwoman Triathlon for Osteoporosis Awareness, now known as TRI and DU it for Strong Bones.