S. Bobo Tanner, MD, CCD, is a graduate of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a BA in History and Science, and received his medical degree with honors from Bowman Gray Medical School of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He pursued his internship and residency at the Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, and completed fellowships and board certification in Rheumatology and in Allergy/Immunology. Dr. Tanner served as a Registrar in the Department of Rheumatology at the Royal Free Hospital, London, England.

Afterwards he returned to Vanderbilt and was Founder and Director of the Vanderbilt Osteoporosis Clinic which is part of the Rheumatology Division.

In 2007 he received the Clinician of the Year Award from International Society for Clinical Densitometry and in 2017 he was recognized with the President’s Award from the Tennessee Rheumatology Society.

His professional membership and service includes the American College of Physicians, Fellow of the American College of Rheumatology, member of the Royal Society of Medicine, and the American Academy of Asthma, Allergy & Immunology, past secretary/ treasurer of the Tennessee Rheumatology Society, past president of the Tennessee Allergy Society and past president of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry. He currently works on the ISCD Education Council where he updates and teaches the CME Bone Density Courses throughout the year. He is a Certified Clinical Densitometrist. His is on the editorial board for the Journal of Clinical Densitometry and Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease.