Clinical Associate Professor Frances Milat has been awarded the Kaye Ibbertson Award for Bone and Mineral Medicine by the Australian and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society (ANZBMS).
This award recognises the productivity of the recipient, in terms of published clinical and/or basic research, in the field of metabolic bone disease.
Selection is based on the best five published papers in the preceding five years.
Associate Professor Milat, who is a consultant endocrinologist, heads the Metabolic Bone Research Group in the Centre for Endocrinology and Metabolism, as well as the Monash Health Metabolic Bone Service.
She is also a Research Fellow in the Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences, Monash University.
She is committed to improving patient care through clinical research, with interests in metabolic bone disorders associated with chronic neurological diseases, transfusion-dependent haemoglobinopathies, renal disease, premature ovarian insufficiency, malignancy and other medical conditions.
Associate Professor Milat received the award at the 29th ANZBMS Annual Scientific Meeting, held in Darwin in October.

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