GLOBAL BURDEN OF HIP FRACTURES
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AMERICA
Brazil
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
United States
Chronic Disease Research Group
Canada
Public Health Agency of Canada
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Dr. Mirhelen
Mendes de Abreu
Departamento de Clínica Médica
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Doctor Mirhelen Mendes de Abreau is currently an Associate Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Her areas of focus for teaching and research include social determinants of health, health education/ promotion for rheumatic conditions, communication in healthcare, and shared decision making of rheumatic diseases. She is in charge of the Laboratory for Patient Centred Outcomes Research and these studies have explored a linkage of DATASUS in order to describe outcomes on rheumatic patients and factors associated with them.
Public Health Agency of Canada
Ms. Caroline Doyon
Epidemiologist,
Public Health Agency of Canada,
Canada
Caroline Doyon is an epidemiologist for the Centre for Surveillance and Applied Research of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). Caroline graduated in Exercise Sciences from Université de Sherbrooke and pursued doctoral studies in kinesiology at Université Laval. Since 2020, she is leading the national surveillance of musculoskeletal conditions, including osteoporosis and related fracture as well as other musculoskeletal conditions within PHAC’s Canadian Chronic Disease Surveillance System (CCDSS).
The CCDSS monitors trends as well as the impacts of various chronic conditions in the Canadian population using linked administrative data from every province and territory to estimate the incidence and prevalence of chronic conditions, all-cause mortality and in the case of osteoporosis, the care gap following an osteoporosis-related fracture.
Ms. Sharon Bartholomew
Centre for Surveillance and Applied Research,
Public Health Agency of Canada,
Canada
Sharon Bartholomew is a senior epidemiologist in the Public Health Agency of Canada, Adult Chronic Disease and Conditions Division. She has over 25 years experience with Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada in the areas of adult chronic disease, maternal/infant health and child maltreatment. In her current role, she utilizes surveillance data from the Canadian Chronic Disease Surveillance System to develop timely, relevant and accessible information on chronic disease in Canada. She holds a MHSc in Community Health and Epidemiology from the University of Toronto.
Chronic Disease Research Group
Dr. Jiannong Liu
Chronic Disease Research Group
Minneapolis,
The United States
Dr. Liu is a principal biostatistician at Chronic Disease Research Group (CDRG). He earned his PhD in biostatistics at the University of Minnesota. He has served as an investigator and lead biostatistician at CDRG since 2000. He served as a co-investigator and lead biostatistician for the United States Renal Data System and as Senior Staff for Biostatistics for the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients. Dr. Liu’s research interest is in the development and application of statistical methodology in observational data analyses for surveillance and comparative effectiveness research, emphasizing disease mapping, health care profiling, patient comorbidity burden evaluation, analyses of data with complex relationships, bias correction, and clinical outcome analyses.