MD-PhD Student
Interdisciplinary Center of Bone Diseases, Rheumatology Unit, Bone and Joint Department, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Switzerland
As physician in training and daily active athlete, the role of physical activity and primary prevention is important to me. Public health solutions could benefit a large portion of the population at many level, with limited costs. Bone health is a good example, because of its high individual and social burden, but with a limited political response. In Switzerland, less than 2% of the direct and indirect costs of osteoporosis are allocated to its pharmacological prevention (JA Kanis, SCOPE 2021).
After completing my medical studies in 2021, I worked one year as a clinician and researcher part-time in the University hospital of Lausanne (CHUV, Switzerland), in internal medicine, geriatrics and emergencies. I am now fully dedicated to research as an MD-PhD student.
The goal of my thesis is to research, analyze and eventually optimize the prediction of fractures from body composition values and sarcopenia parameters, using conventional statistics and artificial intelligence. I am currently working on the OsteoLaus cohort, a 10-year prospective study (from 2010 to 2022) of 1475 postmenopausal women. Each participant was followed every 2.5 years, with a comprehensive questionnaire (fractures, medications, risk factors), functional assessments and DXA scans. Our research team includes internists, rheumatologists, endocrinologists and physicians in training, under the direction of Professors Olivier Lamy and Didier Hans with support of Drs Elena Gonzalez-Rodriguez and Enisa Shevroja.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or comments, I would be happy to hear from you.
Thursday, March 30, 2023
1:10 PM – 1:20 PM
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose