Overview
- Presents the basic properties of pharmaceutical agents in the treatment of osteoporosis
- Compares pharmaceutical agents for the intervention of osteoporosis
- Highlights the awareness of long-term treatment of osteoporosis and in the prevention of secondary fractures
Part of the book series: Tissue Repair and Reconstruction (TRR)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
In late 2010, Dr. Choi was successfully awarded the internationally competitive Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Research Fellowship Award and undertook post-doctoral training at the Faculty of Dentistry of the University of Hong Kong focusing on the application of FEA in dentistry and the development of calcium phosphate nano-bioceramics.
He is currently serving as an associate editor for the Journal of the Australian Ceramic Society and as an editor for a number of dentistry-related journals. In addition, he is also serving as an editorial board member for several dentistry, nanotechnology, and orthopedics journals. To date, Dr. Choi has published over 50 publications including 5 books and 30 book chapters on calcium phosphate, nano-biomaterial coatings, sol-gel technology, marine structures, drug delivery, tissue engineering, and finite element analysis in nanomedicine and dentistry.
Sian Yik Lim Dr. Lim is a rheumatologist at Pali Momi Bone and Joint Center, Hawaii Pacific Health. He currently runs a specialty osteoporosis clinic at Pali Momi Bone and Joint Center and has been involved in efforts to improve the quality of osteoporosis care in Hawaii. He is a clinical densitometrist certified by the International Society for Clinical Densitometry. After graduating from Osaka University School of Medicine, he subsequently trained in internal medicine and rheumatology in the United States. He completed his rheumatology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and was a research fellow at Harvard Medical School. He has received the American Federation of Medical Research Resident Research Day Award and Marshal J Schiff, MD Memorial Fellow Research Award for his research. He has published more than 30 papers and abstracts about gout, osteoporosis, and septic arthritis in respected journals such as JAMA, rheumatology, and current opinions in rheumatology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pharmacological Interventions for Osteoporosis
Editors: Andy H. Choi, Sian Yik Lim
Series Title: Tissue Repair and Reconstruction
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5826-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-5825-2Published: 22 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-5826-9Published: 21 September 2023
Series ISSN: 2731-9180
Series E-ISSN: 2731-9199
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 118
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Regenerative Medicine/Tissue Engineering, Medicinal Chemistry