CTF Steering Committee

CTF Steering Committee is composed of global experts in secondary fracture prevention and FLS, who provide expertise and guidance to improve prioritisation, implementation and evaluation of Fracture Liaison Services (FLS) globally.

The key objectives of the Steering Committee are to:

a)
support national and global prioritisation of FLSs as the most clinically and cost-effective model of care for secondary fracture prevention
b)
support the establishment, development, improvement and sustainability of FLSs that are effective, efficient and deliver a good patient experience.
c)
support dissemination of information on CTF program and FLS implementation

CTF Steering committee Members

Prof. Serge Ferrari

Co-chair

IOF Committee of Scientific Advisors, Co-chair, CTF Program, Division of Bone Diseases at Geneva University Hospital

Switzerland

Assoc. Prof. Kassim Javaid

Co-chair

Lecturer in Metabolic Bone Disease, Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist - NDORMS, University of Oxford

United Kingdom

Prof. Kristina Åkesson

Member

Department of Orthopaedics Malmö - Malmö Skåne University Hospital

Sweden

Prof. Thierry Thomas

Member

Head of Rheumatology Department - St-Etienne University Hospital

France

Prof. Goemaere

Member

Department of Rheumatology and Encocrinology - Ghent University Hospital

Belgium

Adjunct Assoc. Prof. Paul Mitchell

Member

School of Medicine University of Notre Dame Australia and Honorary Departmental Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, UK

United Kingdom