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Elizabeth Shane, M.D., Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons in New York City, received her M.D. from the University of Toronto, Canada in 1975. She did her training in Internal Medicine at the Toronto General Hospital (internship, 1975-1976) and Presbyterian Hospital in New York (1976-1978. She completed her training in Endocrinology and Metabolism at Columbia University in 1981 and joined the faculty of the College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University where she is now Professor of Medicine and Attending Physician at Columbia University Medical Center.
Dr. Shane began her research into cytosolic modulators of adenylate cyclase activity in several animal models in 1981. After several years of basic investigation, she transitioned into clinical research, focusing on primary hyperparathyroidism, renal osteodystrophy and osteoporosis. Over the course of her career, Dr. Shane has described the natural history, epidemiology, pathogenesis and prevention of the severe form of osteoporosis that develops after organ transplantation. Her other research interests are osteoporosis in premenopausal women, bone disease in HIV-infected women, and secondary forms of osteoporosis such as renal bone disease and bone loss due to medications (such as anti-epileptic drugs) and disorders of the gastrointestinal tract.
At Columbia, Dr. Shane has served as Associate Program Director of the General Clinical Research Center and currently is a member of the Education Committee of the Columbia University Clinical Translational Science Award. Dr. Shane has served as Associate Editor of the First through the Sixth Editions of the Primer of the Metabolic Bone Diseases and Disorders of Mineral Metabolism and Associate Editor of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism and is a member of the Editorial Board of Bone. She edited a book entitled “Bone Disease of Organ Transplantation” and has lectured on this topic extensively nationally and internationally. She reviews extensively for many medical, endocrinology and bone journals. She has served as Program Chair for the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research and as President of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.
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