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How did you determine that the doctors you reference are the 'top doctors in osteroporosis.' There are a lot of players in this particular game including many who call themselves 'doctors' but are not licensed medical practitioners.

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Ha! No kidding. I consider the “top doctors in osteoporosis” the doctors that are giving trainings to other doctors at the major osteoporosis conventions like the World Congress of Osteoporosis (WCO). These are the doctors who’s names appear on multiple major clinical trials and studies for osteoporosis medications. Dr. Michael McClung shows up all of the time in these studies and presented at WCO last year and is presenting this year. Same with Serge Ferrari. And Dr. John Bilezikian also teaches doctors from around the world and has exhaustive credentials. Just last year he partnered with Dr. McClung for an event in New Mexico.

Just for fun, here is a partial list for Dr. Bilezikian… Director, Emeritus, of the Metabolic Bone Diseases Program at Columbia University Medical Center; undergraduate training at Harvard College; medical training at the College of Physicians & Surgeons; received his training in Metabolic Bone Diseases and in Endocrinology at the National Institutes of Health in the Mineral Metabolism Branch; served as President of the ASBMR (1995-1996); served as President of the ISCD (1999-2001); served on the Board of Governors of the International Osteoporosis Foundation (1999-2015); Chair of the Endocrine Fellows Foundation; co-editor of The Aging Skeleton (1999), Dynamics of Bone and Cartilage Metabolism (1999, 2006), Principles of Bone Biology (1996, 2002, 2008, 2020) and Osteoporosis in Men (2010). He is Editor-in-Chief of the Primer on the Metabolic Bone Diseases and Disorders of Mineral Metabolism (2019); He has been on numerous panels, including serving as Chair of the NIH Consensus Development Panel on Optimal Calcium Intake (1994), and on and on and on…