Thursday, November 1, 2018

Clinical Research Excellence Award at ANZBMS 2018

Endocrinologist and PhD student Dr Jasna Aleksova (Hudson Institute and Monash Health; third from left) with supervisors (L-R) Associate Professor Grahame Elder (Westmead Hospital and Garvan Institute), Clinical Associate Professor Frances Milat (Hudson Institute and Monash Health) and Professor Peter Ebeling (Monash Health and Monash University)

The 29th Australian and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society Annual Scientific Meeting was attended by Clinical Associate Professor Frances Milat, Head of the Metabolic Bone Research Group in the Centre for Endocrinology and Metabolism and Head of the Metabolic Bone Service at Monash Health, and endocrinologist and PhD student, Dr Jasna Aleksova. The meeting was held in Queenstown New Zealand from 2-5 September.

Dr Aleksova was the winner of the Clinical Research Excellence Award which is offered by Merck Sharp & Dohme to recognise and support clinicians within 10 years of postgraduate training who display excellence in clinical research in the field of bone-related disorders.

She was also a finalist for the Roger Melick Young Investigator Award with her presentation titled Patients on dialysis have markedly abnormal cortical hip parameters by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry.

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