Vitamin D Controversies

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Vitamin D is essential to bone health. Controversies exist in this field regarding optimal replacement. Recent Endocrine Society Guidelines will be reviewed along with how this information should best be taken into context in the treatment of our patients with metabolic bone disorders.

OBJECTIVES
  1. Identify how to best screen and treat patients at risk for vitamin D deficiency
  2. Describe recent guidelines on this topic
  3. Determine how to best utilize this information  in clinical  practice and patient care. Identify currently available software features that have clinical application
LOCATION

Georgian room

Alan Malabanan MD

Clinical Associate Professor, Endocrinology, Diabetes, Nutrition & Weight Management

Alan Malabanan is currently the director of the Endocrine Clinic and Bone Health Clinic at Boston Medical Center, where he is on staff as part of the Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Nutrition and Weight Management. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine.

He graduated with honors from the University of Buffalo, School of Medicine, and completed an internal medicine residency at Boston City Hospital and a fellowship in endocrinology, diabetes, metabolism and bone with Dr. Michael Holick. He has had a strong role in education, having previously been the endocrinology fellowship training program director at Boston University and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Joslin Clinic fellowship programs. He has a longstanding clinical interest in vitamin D deficiency, osteoporosis, bone densitometry and hyperparathyroidism. He believes that everything is endocrinology.

This activity has been approved by ASRT for 1.0 Category A continuing education credits.

If you want to claim credits for ACCME you will be able to at the end of the conference at this link:
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