Scientific Advisory Board
Claude Arnaud, MD
Chairman of the SAB - Dr. Arnaud is Professor Emeritus at the University of California San Francisco. He now serves as Chief Medical Officer at ImaTx - Imaging Therapeutics and Chairman of the company’s Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Arnaud is Past President of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. He is an active member of the Committee of Scientific Advisors of the International Osteoporosis Foundation and has served on the NIH musculoskeletal study section. Dr. Arnaud has gained international recognition for his basic research on parathyroid hormone (PTH) and its receptor and for the treatment of osteoporosis with that hormone.
Philipp Lang, MD, MBA
Chairman, Board of Directors, Founder, Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Director, Musculoskeletal Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Lang has received numerous national and international awards for his research in osteoporosis, arthritis and tumor imaging. He is co-inventor on more than 80 issued and pending patents and has participated in clinical trials for regulatory approval of several medical devices and drugs.
Marjorie Jeffcoat, DMD
Dr. Jeffcoat is the Dean of the Dental School at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Past president of the International Association of Dental Research, Dr. Jeffcoat is the first woman to hold the Journal of the American Dental Association editorship since the publication was founded as a quarterly bulletin in 1913.
Sharmila Majumdar, PhD
Professor Depts. of Radiology, Orthopedic Surgery & Growth and Development UCSF. Dr. Majumdar's fields of research include quantitative musculoskeletal imaging techniques with focus on the characterization of trabecular bone and the study of osteoporosis as well as methods for image processing and texture analysis of images for tissue characterization.
Daniel Steines, MD, MS
Dr. Steines has extensive training in both medicine and computer science. He developed an expertise in medical image analysis at Stanford University. In addition, he is an inventor on more than 50 pending patent applications. Dr. Steines is currently serving as Principal Investigator on the ATP-funded “Novel Low-Cost Techniques for Diagnosis and Management of Patients with Osteoporosis” (Cooperative Agreement No. 70NANB2H3007) and was the Co-PI for the ATP-funded project “Novel, Internet Enabled Techniques For Diagnosis and Management of Patients with Arthritis” (Cooperative Agreement No. 70NANB0H3016).
